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Erste Vorlesung: 25. Oktober 2016
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
This lecture course begins with the ascension of the Tudors to the throne, and it ends on the Restoration of the Stuarts – but of course, there is far more to British and Irish literary and cultural history than just the history of royal dynasties. We will discuss a crucial epoch, which some call “the early modern age”, others “the Renaissance” – with different implications. The epoch comprises the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I, the Elizabethan ‘golden’ age of British literature, the Jacobean age, the Caroline age, the Civil War and the Commonwealth. This was a time of expansion and unrest; old certainties were shattered, and the literature of the age, renowned as it is for its aesthetic qualities, both traces and comments on the changes taking place as Britain and Ireland were leaving the mind frames of the middle ages. Among the authors to be discussed are: the Paston family, John Skelton, Sir Thomas More, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Elizabeth I, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Walter Ralegh, Richard Hooker, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, William Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Donne, George Herbert, John Webster, Sir Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips.
Texts:
Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds, The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ninth Edition. Package 1: Volumes A, B, C. New York: Norton, 2012. ISBN 9780393913002
[For this lecture, you will only need volume B, but the other volumes will also serve you well in future lectures and seminars.]
Some additional texts will be made available via Moodle. |
