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Lit.wiss. Hauptseminar: The Early American Novel: Charles Brockden Brown, |Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker| (1799), Catharine Maria Sedgwick, |Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in Massachusetts| (1827), James Fenimore Cooper, |The Pioneers| (1823)- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Sylvia Mayer
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Zeit und Ort: Do 14:15 - 15:45, U5/217
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Magister, Diplom und Lehramt: Zwischenprüfung bzw. Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
BA: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
Students interested in the course are kindly asked to register before October 13, 2007 by e-mail (sylvia.mayer@split.uni-bamberg.de)
- Inhalt
- In this seminar we will discuss the beginnings of American novelistic production in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly, Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie, and James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers represent the effort made by novelists to contribute to the formation of a specific American cultural identity during this period of the Early Republic in which the young nation had to come to terms with the transition from colony to independent state. All three novels are concerned with historical processes of European settlement of North America and with the emergence of distinctly American communities after independence. They focus on the encounter between European settlers and the Native American population, on the contrast between “old” and “new” world in terms of social, political and cultural issues as well as on the role of gender concepts in these processes. Class discussion will address these thematic issues as well as issues of narrative convention that characterize the texts which can be categorized as gothic (Brown) and historical novels (Sedgwick, Cooper).
Participants of the seminar are expected to buy the editions of the texts given below and to have read all novels by the beginning of the semester.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please buy the following texts:
Brown, Charles Brockden. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin, 1988. [ISBN-10: 0140390626; ISBN-13: 978-0140390629]
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. [ISBN-10: 0192828029; ISBN-13: 978-0192828026]
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. New York: Penguin, 1998. [ISBN-10: 0140436766; ISBN-13: 978-0140436761]
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 35
- Institution: Professur für Anglistik und Amerikanistik mit Schwerpunkt Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
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