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Seminar: A Union of Love and Politics: Forms and Themes of the Novel from Behn to Austen - Vertiefungsmodul - Details
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Course name Seminar: A Union of Love and Politics: Forms and Themes of the Novel from Behn to Austen - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number siehe "Details"
Semester WS 2019/20
Current number of participants 9
maximum number of participants 20
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Friday, 18.10.2019 10:00 - 12:00, Room: Hörsaal V (Raum E.03) [LuWu 2]
Studiengänge (für) ANG.03220.03 für LAG, LAS (2007)
ANG.03222.03 für LAG, LAS (2007)
ANG.05584.01 füpr MA Kulturen der Aufklärung 120 LP (2014)
ANG.05292.02 für LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP (2015) / MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP (2015)
ANG.05293.02 für LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP (2015) / MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP (2015)
SWS 2
Miscellanea ANG.03220.03 für LAG, LAS (2007)
ANG.03222.03 für LAG, LAS (2007)
ANG.05584.01 füpr MA Kulturen der Aufklärung 120 LP (2014)
ANG.05292.02 für LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP (2015) / MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP (2015)
ANG.05293.02 für LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP (2015) / MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP (2015)
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

From its very beginning, the British novel was a genre that combined the motif of (often, but not always romantic) love with political concerns. One of the first contributions to the genre, Aphra Behn’s epistolary roman à clef, Love Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister (1685), denounced the sexual morals of supporters of the Monmouth Rebellion, which aimed to overthrow King James II, as a way of attacking their political goals. Over the course of the subsequent decades, many innovators of this increasingly popular form followed Behn’s lead: British novels contributed to developing an idea(l) of national citizenship, exposed the discriminatory practices of marriage conventions and family hierarchies, conceived of utopian societies, portrayed imperial endeavours, and had passionate lovers transgress the boundaries of rank, wealth, and, occasionally, race.

This lecture course will look at major novelists of the eighteenth century whose works are not only considered innovative contributions to the genre’s development, but which have also established a multifaceted ‘union of love and politics’ as a popular theme and narrative strategy of the British novel.

Please note that prior registration (deadline: 13 October 2019) for the lecture course via StudIP is mandatory.

The primary sources given below must be read over the course of the teaching term. There will be short written assignments during the semester, and a final written examination. Further details of the module assignment will be introduced in the first session.

Please note that notebooks, tablets and other electronic gadgets are permitted in class only when required for multimedia tasks that are announced in advance by the teacher.

Recommended secondary sources will be made available on our shelf (“Semesterapparat”) in the university library, Steintor Campus.

Primary sources that must be read by students (any edition):
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko (1688)
Fielding, Henry, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (1749)
Lennox, Charlotte, The Female Quixote (1752)
Mackenzie, Henry, The Man of Feeling (1771)
Austen, Jane, Mansfield Park (1816)

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: A Union of Love and Politics: Forms and Themes of the Novel from Behn to Austen - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 29.08.2019, 00:00 to 13.10.2019, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

Potential participants are given additional information before enroling to the course.

The enrolment is binding, participants cannot unsubscribe themselves.