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Encounters with "the alien" in British and Irish fin-de-siècle and modernist cultures- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 06.02.2017 (08:00 Uhr) bis 28.04.2017 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 19.06.2017 (10:00 Uhr) bis 14.07.2017 (23:59 Uhr)
Zeit und Ort: Do 14:15 - 15:45, U5/01.18
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Landeskunde/ Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
Bitte lesen Sie auch gründlich die Informationen zum Semester auf unserer Website./Please also read carefully the information on the semester which is on our website.
- Inhalt
- "[A]s unknown […] as the darkest reaches of Africa." This description of the backstreets of London, which we encounter in Arthur Machen’s 1895 horror novel The Three Imposters, brings to a head the fear and the fascination of ‘others’ and ‘otherness’ in late nineteenth-century British culture. Irrational forces and grotesque forms seemed to lurk just behind the veneers of Victorian drawing rooms; in those regions just beyond the white patriarchy’s reach; both outside and – alarmingly – inside the borders of Empire. The central focus of this module will be the fin-de-siècle and modernist Gothic tradition in British, Irish, and American literature in the decades around 1900. In particular, we shall consider how literary texts reflected changing conceptions of, and fears about, human and social identity in relation to bodily, natural, racial, and sexual ‘others’. Charles Darwin had brought to the fore the disturbing proximity of man and animal in the evolutionary chain, especially in The Descent of Man (1871). Advances in parasitology added new inflections to fears about infestation and infection. And the coming advent of psychoanalysis would shed uncanny new light on the darkest recesses of the human soul.
Against that backdrop, our seminars will mainly be devoted to short stories and novellas by a variety of writers. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's creepy short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892) might be set alongside Henry James’ spine-tingling The Turn of the Screw (1898). H.G. Wells’ science fiction romance The Time Machine (1895) will be read in the context of broader, late-Victorian fears of 'Degeneration'. With samples from influential twentieth-century adaptations (e.g. Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, 1979), the course will culminate in sessions devoted to either all or a selection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899). By the end of the course, students will be able to use literary texts to uncover the fears, the ambitions, and the identity crises of an important moment in British culture; and to ask what parallels they might find in contemporary culture.
Primary Texts:
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness (London: Penguin Classics, 2007).
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 'The Yellow Wallpaper', in Chris Baldick (ed.) The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). This short story – of only 6000 words – can be photocopied directly from the copy of this volume in TB4.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror (London: Penguin Classics, 2003).
Stoker, Bram, Dracula (London: Penguin Classics, 2003).
Wells, H. G., The Time Machine (London: Penguin Classics, 2005).
Important: please try to acquire as many of these as possible, in the stated editions (we shall also read James' The Turn of the Screw if there is enough time and interest). These editions are inexpensive, and the texts themselves are well worth owning.
You should ensure that you read as much as possible before the start of the semester. The more you read, the more you'll get out of our discussions!
- Empfohlene Literatur
Hurley, Kelly, ‘British Gothic Fiction, 1885-1930’, in The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 189-208.
Marshall, Gail (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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