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Ü 19th Century Regional Writing- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Nora Pleßke
- Angaben
- Übung
Rein Präsenz
Studium Generale, Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mo 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
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 (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.09.2023, 10:00 - 31.10.2023, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Inhalt
- Rosamunde Pilcher, a British author of romantic novels famously adapted for German TV, and the ZDF received the British Tourism Award 2002 for boosting foreign interest in the Cornish landscape. However, from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, there are many regions in Great Britain that were formed by the literary imagination of canonical authors and for which literary tourism has become a central element of their local economies.
This seminar explores Britain’s regional literature of the 19th century. Students will not only be made familiar with the geographies of Great Britain but reading and interpreting a wide range of topographical texts they will be introduced to the importance of space in literary and other cultural representations. Moreover, in discussing questions concerning setting, local colour, ambience of place or the symbolic level of spatial representations, students will engage with an array of spatial concepts from Cultural Geographies.
Our explorative tour of the multifarious regions in Britain depicted in 19th-century poetry and prose sets off in the Dartmoor of Arthur Conan Doyle. Beyond that, we will investigate Southwest England in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex stories and visit Jane Austen’s Bath. Travelling upwards through literary topographies of George Eliot’s Midlands and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Industrial North we will stop over in Yorkshire’s Brontë country where we will not only encounter the fictional Wuthering Heights but also the psychologies of its mindscape. Further on, we will engage in the influential literary constructions of the Lake District by Romanticist poet William Wordsworth. Upon arrival in Scotland, the High- and Lowlands as well as the ‘Athens in the North’, Edinburgh, will be brought to life by Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. We will complete our tour of Great Britain by tracing the labyrinthine streets of Charles Dickens’ London.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Selected Primary Literature:
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. 1814.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 1853.
Doyle, Arthur C. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902.
Eliot, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. 1857.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. 1848.
Hardy, Thomas. Wessex Tales. 1888.
Scott, Walter. Waverley. 1814.
Stevenson, R.L. Kidnapped. 1886.
Wordworth, William. The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets. 1820.
You should have read the following text by the third session on 30 October 2023:
Doyle, Arthur C. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902. Oxford UP, 2008.
Useful introductory texts on the topic are:
Crang, Mike. Cultural Geography. Routledge, 2005.
Hallet, Wolfgang, and Birgit Neumann, eds. Raum und Bewegung in der Literatur. Die Literaturwissenschaften und der Spatial Turn. Transcript, 2009.
Hardyment, Christina, ed. Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands. British Library, 2012.
An extensive “Semesterapparat” including these titles and many more has been set up in the university library.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Ü 19th Century Regional Writing
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
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 (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow!: 01.09.2023, 10:00 - 31.10.2023, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Contents
- Rosamunde Pilcher, a British author of romantic novels famously adapted for German TV, and the ZDF received the British Tourism Award 2002 for boosting foreign interest in the Cornish landscape. However, from Land’s End to John o’ Groats, there are many regions in Great Britain that were formed by the literary imagination of canonical authors and for which literary tourism has become a central element of their local economies.
This seminar explores Britain’s regional literature of the 19th century. Students will not only be made familiar with the geographies of Great Britain but reading and interpreting a wide range of topographical texts they will be introduced to the importance of space in literary and other cultural representations. Moreover, in discussing questions concerning setting, local colour, ambience of place or the symbolic level of spatial representations, students will engage with an array of spatial concepts from Cultural Geographies.
Our explorative tour of the multifarious regions in Britain depicted in 19th-century poetry and prose sets off in the Dartmoor of Arthur Conan Doyle. Beyond that, we will investigate Southwest England in Thomas Hardy’s Wessex stories and visit Jane Austen’s Bath. Travelling upwards through literary topographies of George Eliot’s Midlands and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Industrial North we will stop over in Yorkshire’s Brontë country where we will not only encounter the fictional Wuthering Heights but also the psychologies of its mindscape. Further on, we will engage in the influential literary constructions of the Lake District by Romanticist poet William Wordsworth. Upon arrival in Scotland, the High- and Lowlands as well as the ‘Athens in the North’, Edinburgh, will be brought to life by Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. We will complete our tour of Great Britain by tracing the labyrinthine streets of Charles Dickens’ London.
- Literature
- Selected Primary Literature:
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. 1814.
Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. 1853.
Doyle, Arthur C. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902.
Eliot, George. Scenes of Clerical Life. 1857.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. 1848.
Hardy, Thomas. Wessex Tales. 1888.
Scott, Walter. Waverley. 1814.
Stevenson, R.L. Kidnapped. 1886.
Wordworth, William. The River Duddon, A Series of Sonnets. 1820.
You should have read the following text by the third session on 30 October 2023:
Doyle, Arthur C. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902. Oxford UP, 2008.
Useful introductory texts on the topic are:
Crang, Mike. Cultural Geography. Routledge, 2005.
Hallet, Wolfgang, and Birgit Neumann, eds. Raum und Bewegung in der Literatur. Die Literaturwissenschaften und der Spatial Turn. Transcript, 2009.
Hardyment, Christina, ed. Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands. British Library, 2012.
An extensive “Semesterapparat” including these titles and many more has been set up in the university library.
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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