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Seminar: Aufbaumodul Angloamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft 4 – Kultur, Literatur, Sprache; Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft IV; Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur III (Themen, Motive, Autoren) - Details
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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Aufbaumodul Angloamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft 4 – Kultur, Literatur, Sprache; Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft IV; Aufbaumodul Anglistik Literatur III (Themen, Motive, Autoren)
Untertitel Victorian Social Novels
Semester SS 2018
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 7
Heimat-Einrichtung Englische Literatur und Kultur
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Donnerstag, 19.04.2018 10:15 - 11:45
Teilnehmende IKEAS und Anglistik/Amerikanistik BA Studierende
Voraussetzungen Erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Lernorganisation Texts:
Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. Ed. Adrian Poole. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004.
Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South. Ed. Angus Easson. Oxford World Classics. London: OUP, 2008.
Anthony Trollope, The Way We Live Now (1875). Ed. Frank Kermode. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.
Additional Reading:
Gross, Konrad. Der englische soziale Roman im 19. Jahrhundert. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, 1977.
Leistungsnachweis Referat
Hausarbeit
Studiengänge (für) IKEAS B.A.
Anglistik/Amerikanistik BA 90 Studierende, die ihre Thesis nicht in der Anglistik sondern in ihrem anderen Fach schreiben
SWS 2
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Donnerstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich(12x)

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Mid-Victorian realist novels are often erroneously accused of lacking bite, of settling for the saccharine morality of their evangelically inspired readership, and of not daring to tackle taboos or even only social conventions in a way that Naturalist writers later would. Our course will read three social novels that prove such stereotypes resoundingly wrong. We will start with Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic North and South (1855), the highyl successful costume drama tv adaptation of which has unfortunately focused on the romantic involvement of the protagonist in this novel only, to the exclusion of a great many other features of the text. It is a novel which addresses the agency of women within a patriarchal industrialist society, the passing away of gentlemanly orders of conduct, the rise of the self-made industrialist, suicide in exploitative economies, trade unions and strike breaking, starvation and tuberculosis in Midlands industrial towns, and the lies Victorian society tells itself about the inevitable progress all of this entails. Charles Dickens’ late satire, Our Mutual Friend (1864-65), irritating early readers as well as critics, has only recently come to be seen as a work actually challenging the realist novel itself. A savage satire of Victorian society and conventions, it explores the dark underbelly of Victorian respectability, criticising its all-pervasive greed, utilitarianism, misoginy and corruption, and deliberately setting out to correct even the author’s own earlier antisemitism. It is now considered one of his most complex novels. Anthony Trollope’s satire The Way We Live Now (1875) was inspired by the financial scandals of the 1870s. Though the author himself thought it not one of his best novels (he only liked his villains), it has come to be considered one of the best satires of the Victorian age, with memorable characters, vivid and ludicrous descriptions, and a close eye for detail as well as a still valid critical message.