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Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities I: The 19th Century
- Dozent/in
- Dr. Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
- Angaben
- Übung
Rein Online 2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit: Mo 18:00 - 20:00 Gespeicherte Informationen: Zeit: 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!: 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Inhalt
- Crime Fiction reaches large numbers of readers with heterogeneous interests. In other words, it provides something for everyone, yet in doing so it can either assert or scrutinise and thus re-negotiate gender and sexual normativity. As such, the genre itself is both assertive of perceived normativity and at the same time deviant from socially constructed roles and rules. A crime of any kind, after all, already provides a disruption of order and sets extraordinary events in motion. The exceptional situation a crime creates thus leaves room for all kinds of agents (for queerness or normativity) to revise order and normativity. Crime, sex and gender are intricately linked, be that through the characters, the target audience, or the crime itself. Probably no other genre provides such a broad spectrum of characters, ranging from the occasionally hyper-masculine hardboiled detective and the stereotypically feminine spinster sleuth to androgynous private eyes or gender-fluid police detectives.
Moreover, a scholarly focus on gender and sex in Crime Fiction “has […] advanced understanding of the socially constructed nature of crime” (2) as Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner write in the Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex and Crime (2014). Crime as a social construct inhabits a liminal position. Like gender, it crosses boundaries and is thus positioned on a perpetual threshold between what is read as “order” or “normality” and “chaos” or “deviance.” Crime Fiction provides the space to investigate this liminality and to open up stereotypical concepts of normativity in crime, gender and sexuality. Crime Fiction’s relationship with sex and gender is thus fascinatingly complex and allows for a broad variety of critical angles on the topic.
This course is the first of a three-part “Übung” on crime fiction and gender. It specifically covers the beginnings of British crime fiction in the middle of the 19th century and ends with the turn of the century. Please see below for the literature used in class (more literature to be announced and uploaded to the VC at the beginning of the semester). Students should be aware that this is a very reading- and discussion-intensive class and students should be prepared to participate in the in-class discussions.
In the winter semester 2021/22, part II will cover the early 20th century until roughly the 1950s, laying its focus on the so called “Golden Age” of crime fiction, i.e. the 1920s and 30s. Part III (summer semester 2022) will then conclude this series of Übungen with gender and modern crime fiction from the 1950s/60s to today.
This course also serves as a preparation for the international conference “Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities” (25-27 November 2021). Students in this course will have the chance to participate in a poster exhibition on the topic of the conference, but are not required to.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
To read before the beginning of the semester:
Edgar Allen Poe. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” 1841. Short story available online
To read during the semester:
Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White . 1859. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret. 1862. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Israel Zangwill. The Big Bow Mystery . 1891. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Allen Grant. Hilda Wade . 1899. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Several short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Arthur Morrison will be published on the VC in the beginning of the semester.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities I: The 19th Century
- Credits: 4
- 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!: 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer
- Contents
- Crime Fiction reaches large numbers of readers with heterogeneous interests. In other words, it provides something for everyone, yet in doing so it can either assert or scrutinise and thus re-negotiate gender and sexual normativity. As such, the genre itself is both assertive of perceived normativity and at the same time deviant from socially constructed roles and rules. A crime of any kind, after all, already provides a disruption of order and sets extraordinary events in motion. The exceptional situation a crime creates thus leaves room for all kinds of agents (for queerness or normativity) to revise order and normativity. Crime, sex and gender are intricately linked, be that through the characters, the target audience, or the crime itself. Probably no other genre provides such a broad spectrum of characters, ranging from the occasionally hyper-masculine hardboiled detective and the stereotypically feminine spinster sleuth to androgynous private eyes or gender-fluid police detectives.
Moreover, a scholarly focus on gender and sex in Crime Fiction “has […] advanced understanding of the socially constructed nature of crime” (2) as Bill McCarthy and Rosemary Gartner write in the Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex and Crime (2014). Crime as a social construct inhabits a liminal position. Like gender, it crosses boundaries and is thus positioned on a perpetual threshold between what is read as “order” or “normality” and “chaos” or “deviance.” Crime Fiction provides the space to investigate this liminality and to open up stereotypical concepts of normativity in crime, gender and sexuality. Crime Fiction’s relationship with sex and gender is thus fascinatingly complex and allows for a broad variety of critical angles on the topic.
This course is the first of a three-part “Übung” on crime fiction and gender. It specifically covers the beginnings of British crime fiction in the middle of the 19th century and ends with the turn of the century. Please see below for the literature used in class (more literature to be announced and uploaded to the VC at the beginning of the semester). Students should be aware that this is a very reading- and discussion-intensive class and students should be prepared to participate in the in-class discussions.
In the winter semester 2021/22, part II will cover the early 20th century until roughly the 1950s, laying its focus on the so called “Golden Age” of crime fiction, i.e. the 1920s and 30s. Part III (summer semester 2022) will then conclude this series of Übungen with gender and modern crime fiction from the 1950s/60s to today.
This course also serves as a preparation for the international conference “Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities” (25-27 November 2021). Students in this course will have the chance to participate in a poster exhibition on the topic of the conference, but are not required to.
- Literature
- Obligatory Reading:
To read before the beginning of the semester:
Edgar Allen Poe. “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” 1841. Short story available online
To read during the semester:
Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White . 1859. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret. 1862. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Israel Zangwill. The Big Bow Mystery . 1891. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Allen Grant. Hilda Wade . 1899. (Novel available online via Project Gutenberg Australia)
Several short stories by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Arthur Morrison will be published on the VC in the beginning of the semester.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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