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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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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: A Union of Love and Politics: Forms and Themes of the Novel from Behn to Austen - Vertiefungsmodul
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Semester WS 2022/23
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 12
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Freitag, 14.10.2022 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: Hörsaal Z [Mel]
Studiengänge (für) MA Kulturen der Aufklärung 120 LP (2014)
LA Gym, Sek, Förder (Sekundar) Englisch (2012+2015)
MA Engl. Spr. u Lit 45/75 LP (2015)
MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015)
SWS 2
Sonstiges ANG.05584.02 Modul Literatur und Ästhetik I: Westeuropäische Literaturen
ANG.05593.01 Vertiefungsmodul: Westeuropäische Literaturen im Kontext der Aufklärung
ANG.05292.02 Vertiefungsmodul: Anglistik Literatur I
ANG.06145.02 Vertiefungsmodul Kulturwissenschaft IV
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

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: 17 October 2022) 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 (90 mins). Further details of the module assignment will be introduced in the first session.

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)

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