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Seminar: Money, Wealth, and Finance in British Literature: From Early Modern Lending Practices to the Financial Crisis - Details
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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Money, Wealth, and Finance in British Literature: From Early Modern Lending Practices to the Financial Crisis
Untertitel Aufbaumodul: Englische Literatur
Veranstaltungsnummer ANG.03573.05
Semester SS 2022
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 27
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Dienstag, 05.04.2022 16:15 - 17:45, Ort: Hörsaal III (R.1.31)[EA 26-27]
Art/Form On-Campus Seminar
Teilnehmende Lehramtsstudierende (LAG, LAS, LA Fö)
Voraussetzungen Erfolgreich bestandenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Leistungsnachweis Referat (Studienleistung)
Mündliche Prüfung (Prüfungsleistung)
Studiengänge (für) ANG.03573.05 für LA Gym, Sek Englisch (2007+2012+2015), LA Förder (Sekundar) Englisch (2012+2015)
SWS 2
ECTS-Punkte 5

Themen

01_Introduction, 02_What Is Economic Criticism?, 03_The Merchant of Venice I, 06_The Merchant of Venice II, 07_The Merchant of Venice III, 06_Early Modern Economic Theory, 08_Moll Flanders I, 09_Moll Flanders II, 10_Moll Flanders III, 12_Money in Victorian Poetry I, 14_Money in Victorian Poetry II, 13_Thesis Statement Workshop, 14_Enron, 14_Enron II, 15_Final Discussion & Revision

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

++ Please note that this seminar is offered in the module "Aufbaumodul Englische Literatur". You can only obtain credit points for this course if you are studying for a teaching degree. ++

++ This seminar, as it is currently planned, will take place on campus and requires students' physical presence. ++

In this seminar, we will discuss representations of money, wealth, and finance in British literature from the early modern period to the present. We will start our historical enquiry into literary depictions and analyses of wealth in the Elizabethan period, examining the staging of wealth, usury, and money-lending practices in William Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice' (c. 1600). The second text whose depiction of money and wealth we will study in detail is 'Moll Flanders' (1722), by Daniel Defoe, the author of 'Robinson Crusoe'. Traversing the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we will analyse a selection of poems where money and, in particular, gold and coins play a pivotal role, such as Robert Browning's "Gold Hair" (1864) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Jenny" (1870). We will conclude the seminar with a discussion of representations of the 2007-2008 financial crisis in British literature, focusing specifically on Lucy Prebble's play 'Enron' (2009).

In this seminar, students will learn how to approach literary texts from the angle of economic criticism and develop an understanding of the historically malleable use of motifs and themes related to money and wealth. We will examine the world of finance both as an overt topic, which has been treated with different emphases and against changing cultural backgrounds by authors in different literary periods, and ask how texts interact with economic frameworks more broadly -- e.g. as products of the literary marketplace.

The grade for this course is based on a 30-minute oral exam, which will take place at the beginning of the term break. Further requirements for this course include participation in an expert group and the writing of a thesis statement.

Prebble's play and the other short texts read in class will be made available in electronic format. Please obtain the following editions of Shakespeare's play and Defoe's novel:

1: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. Ed. John Drakakis. The Arden Shakespeare, 2010.
ISBN: 978-1-903436-81-3

2: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Ed. David Blewett. London: Penguin, 1989.
ISBN: 978-0-14-043313-5

Anmeldemodus

Die Auswahl der Teilnehmenden wird nach der Eintragung manuell vorgenommen.

Nutzer/-innen, die sich für diese Veranstaltung eintragen möchten, erhalten nähere Hinweise und können sich dann noch gegen eine Teilnahme entscheiden.