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"My good God, the gentleman in bed is dead!" - Murderesses in Victorian Fiction- Dozent/in
- Lara Brändle, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Erweiterungsbereich, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 3.7.2024 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
NOT open for Consolidation Module
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: Kulturwissenschaft oder Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
Studium Generale: Übung only!
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Murder is the ultimate transgression. Both legally and socially, both in the nineteenth century and today. Since murder is a transgression, there is also an aspect of agency contained within the act of transgression. It is, therefore, no surprise that a woman killing caused significant discomfort to Victorian society: not only was committing murder a crime and a significant transgression of social and moral rules, but women who kill showed that women had agency and were capable of physical violence, thus contradicting Victorian concepts of women as the bearers of morality .
A trend that is then observable in the Victorian era is that women who had committed murder were twice as likely to be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, often simply with the explanation that because they killed, they must be mad. The deed was enough to convince juries of their insanity. We might connect this to said discomfort, a way to remove a woman s agency and explain away her agency. However, we must also consider another trend in nineteenth-century Britain: arguably, madness is both domesticated and becomes female in this century.
The transgression of women is, of course, also a topic observable in the fiction of the time. In this class, we will read four novels by prominent Victorian authors, Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, Lady Audley s Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Tess of the D Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy, and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. All these novels contain transgressive women who kill, attempt to kill, and/or commit suicide. We will look at how the discourse of criminality, madness, and femininity of the nineteenth century influenced these novels (and vice versa?). We will critically discuss their actions, their mental state, their motivations, and, most importantly, how their actions are framed by the novel. We will also pay close attention to the mode these novels are written in and how this influences how these women s actions are framed.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Texts covered in class include:
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. 1847.
Bram Stoker. Dracula. 1897.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret. 1862.
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 1891.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- "My good God, the gentleman in bed is dead!" - Murderesses in Victorian Fiction
- Credits: 6
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)
BA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (Seminar oder Übung)
1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature or culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
NOT open for Consolidation Module
MA Interdisziplinäre Mittelalterstudien/Medieval Studies: Mastermodul I: Kulturwissenschaft oder Literaturwissenschaft (Übung)
Studium Generale: Übung only!
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 11.03.2024, 10:00 - 22.04.2024, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- Murder is the ultimate transgression. Both legally and socially, both in the nineteenth century and today. Since murder is a transgression, there is also an aspect of agency contained within the act of transgression. It is, therefore, no surprise that a woman killing caused significant discomfort to Victorian society: not only was committing murder a crime and a significant transgression of social and moral rules, but women who kill showed that women had agency and were capable of physical violence, thus contradicting Victorian concepts of women as the bearers of morality .
A trend that is then observable in the Victorian era is that women who had committed murder were twice as likely to be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, often simply with the explanation that because they killed, they must be mad. The deed was enough to convince juries of their insanity. We might connect this to said discomfort, a way to remove a woman s agency and explain away her agency. However, we must also consider another trend in nineteenth-century Britain: arguably, madness is both domesticated and becomes female in this century.
The transgression of women is, of course, also a topic observable in the fiction of the time. In this class, we will read four novels by prominent Victorian authors, Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë, Lady Audley s Secret (1862) by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Tess of the D Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy, and Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. All these novels contain transgressive women who kill, attempt to kill, and/or commit suicide. We will look at how the discourse of criminality, madness, and femininity of the nineteenth century influenced these novels (and vice versa?). We will critically discuss their actions, their mental state, their motivations, and, most importantly, how their actions are framed by the novel. We will also pay close attention to the mode these novels are written in and how this influences how these women s actions are framed.
- Literature
- Texts covered in class include:
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. 1847.
Bram Stoker. Dracula. 1897.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley's Secret. 1862.
Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 1891.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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