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The Seventeenth Century: Culture and Literature of Revolution and Restoration- Dozent/in
- PD Dr. Anne-Julia Zwierlein
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein, Essay (7500 words, including quotations and footnotes, to be handed in by March 31, 2008)
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:15 - 17:45, U5/222; Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: ANMELDUNG bis zum 30. September per e-mail: anne.zwierlein@uni-bamberg.de (Betreff: Revolution and Restoration)
- Inhalt
- From 1649 until 1660, England witnessed the singular experiment of a republican constitution, following upon a protracted period of revolutionary upheaval and civil war. In the fields of pamphleteering, literary prose and poetry, contemporary writers were engaged in "writing the English republic" (David Norbrook), as well as mourning the past days of the monarchy. In this seminar we will analyse several of the important literary texts produced at the time: Selected poems by Andrew Marvell; essays and prose writings by Francis Bacon; excerpts from Thomas Browne's prose text Religio Medici (1643); Margaret Cavendish's utopia The New Blazing World (1666); John Milton's epic Paradise Lost (1667); John Dryden's long poems Astraea Redux (1660) and Annus Mirabilis (1667), and Lucy Hutchinson's epic Order and Disorder (published in part in 1679, in full in 2001). The political context, including reactions to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, will not be the only focus of interest: We will also be concerned with publication forms, questions of genre, narrative stance, and paratexts like dedications, introductions and glosses provided by the authors themselves. From a comparative point of view, all writers can be shown to be concerned with accounts of divine creation, linking them to the question of the legitimacy of human intervention in a seemingly 'natural' political order.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please buy the following texts:
· The Poems of Andrew Marvell, ed. Nigel Smith (London: Longman, 2003).
· Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings, ed. Kate Lilley (London: Penguin, 1994).
· John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler, 2nd ed. (London: Longman, 1998). John Dryden, The Major Works, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).
· Other texts (e.g., excerpts) will be provided
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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