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Neo-Victorianism- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Gruß
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
Rein Präsenz
Gender und Diversität, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
open for Consolidation Module (Literature)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Victorian London, Victorian fashion & interior design, the Victorians’ presumed conservatism, and the repercussions of British colonialism are still important elements of contemporary attempts to make sense of what it means to be British (or English). It is therefore no surprise that neo-Victorianism has become an established field in contemporary literary and cultural studies. The texts we will discuss in this class – four novels and a play – were written in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, but are set in the nineteenth century and at times also imitate a nineteenth-century style of writing. Some of them are based on ‘real’ Victorians (Henry James in Tóibín’s The Master, Queen Victoria I in Gupta’s The Empress) or rewrite nineteenth-century classics (Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, one of the first neo-Victorian texts, is a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre); and some of them spin their own tales (Waters’s Affinity and Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage). Most of them are decidedly ambivalent about Victorian mentalities and traditions despite the recognition that readers often wish to immerse themselves in a past they celebrate as nostalgic. The novels we will read cover diverse aspects: we will talk about rewriting, historiographic metafiction, mediums and spiritualism, (neo-)Victorian biography, pornography, and Empire. And if you cannot get enough, you can read Nisi Shawls steampunk Everfair for two bookclub-style meetings
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Reading:
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Sarah Waters, Affinity (1999)
- Colm Tóibín, The Master (2004)
- Belinda Starling, The Journal of Dora Damage (2007)
- Tanika Gupta, The Empress (2013)
add-on (book club, twice/term, dates tba): Nisi Shawl, Everfair (2016)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Neo-Victorianism
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
open for Consolidation Module (Literature)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 29.03.2024, 10:00 – 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- Victorian London, Victorian fashion & interior design, the Victorians’ presumed conservatism, and the repercussions of British colonialism are still important elements of contemporary attempts to make sense of what it means to be British (or English). It is therefore no surprise that neo-Victorianism has become an established field in contemporary literary and cultural studies. The texts we will discuss in this class – four novels and a play – were written in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, but are set in the nineteenth century and at times also imitate a nineteenth-century style of writing. Some of them are based on ‘real’ Victorians (Henry James in Tóibín’s The Master, Queen Victoria I in Gupta’s The Empress) or rewrite nineteenth-century classics (Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, one of the first neo-Victorian texts, is a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre); and some of them spin their own tales (Waters’s Affinity and Starling’s The Journal of Dora Damage). Most of them are decidedly ambivalent about Victorian mentalities and traditions despite the recognition that readers often wish to immerse themselves in a past they celebrate as nostalgic. The novels we will read cover diverse aspects: we will talk about rewriting, historiographic metafiction, mediums and spiritualism, (neo-)Victorian biography, pornography, and Empire. And if you cannot get enough, you can read Nisi Shawls steampunk Everfair for two bookclub-style meetings
- Literature
- Reading:
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Sarah Waters, Affinity (1999)
- Colm Tóibín, The Master (2004)
- Belinda Starling, The Journal of Dora Damage (2007)
- Tanika Gupta, The Empress (2013)
add-on (book club, twice/term, dates tba): Nisi Shawl, Everfair (2016)
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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