19th-Century Women's Fiction

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, U5/01.22

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!: 01.03.2023, 10:00-23.04.2023, 23:59
Guest auditors should first contact the lecturer

Inhalt:

The 19th century is often said to be the Golden Age of the novel and it has seen authors who are still household names today, such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. In particular, as Elaine Showalter writes, “it seemed that the nineteenth century was the Age of the Female Novelist” (Showalter 1977). This course is thus going to look specifically at 19th-century female writers whose works have proven to be timeless reader favourites. By quantitatively reading and discussing novels from the whole century, we try to compare themes and key elements of the 19th-century female novel, ranging from the Romantic period to the late Victorian era. We will discover romance plots alongside social condition novels alongside sensational crime stories. In all, as diverse as women’s fiction from the 19th century is, there are surprisingly many common denominators among the novels and we are going to discuss as many of them as we can. So be prepared to read and read more.
Participants should be advised that this is a very reading intensive class covering six long novels over the course of 14 weeks.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading: (in reading order)

Jane Austen. Northanger Abbey. 1818.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. 1847.
Elizabeth Gaskell. North and South. 1854/55.
George Eliot. Adam Bede. 1859.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Lady Audley’s Secret. 1862.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. Little Lord Fauntleroy. 1885/86

Alice in Wonderland as a Literary Phenomenon

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Seminar/Oberseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 8, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22
Einzeltermin am 2.6.2023, 8:00 - 17:30, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies:
Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
Module Master's Thesis (Literature): Oberseminar (2 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Open for Consolidation Module Literature
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

Inhalt:

In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson published a book about a girl called Alice, who follows a white rabbit through a rabbit hole into a strange land inhabited by even stranger creatures. She meets the Cheshire Cat, changes her own size by eating and drinking, attends the weirdest tea party and curiouser and curiouser stands trial for allegedly stealing the Queen's tarts.

Even this very reduced description of the plot of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is most likely familiar to most Anglophone readers. More than 150 years after the book was published, Alice has moved beyond the pages of her own two books (Through the Looking Glass followed Alice in Wonderland four years later). She as well as many of the Wonderland characters has become a literary phenomenon and Carroll's novel has inspired artists, musicians and novelists ever since. This course looks at several literary Alice in Wonderland adaptations (in the broadest sense), tracing how and to what effect the novel has been used by later generations. To show what Alice has contributed to (not only) English literary history, this course will work with several primary texts and excerpts of primary texts alongside a wide array of literary theory, including intertextuality, frame theory, parody and satire theory, feminism, otherness, and queer studies.

Participants are advised to have read both of Carroll's texts by the beginning of the course. For more obligatory reading see below.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

The following full texts will be covered in class:

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 1865.
Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. 1871.
Dawson, Juno. Wonderland. 2020.
Henry, Christina. Alice. 2015.

Excerpts from the following texts will be provided on the VC:

Bache, Louise Franklin. Gladys in Grammarland. 1897.
Bangs, John Kendrick. Excerpts from Clara in Blunderland. 1902.
Saki (Hector Hugo Monroe). Excerpts from The Westminster Alice. 1902.
Young, Lucien. Excerpts from Alice in Brexitland. 2017.

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 12.4.2023, 11:30 - 12:30, U11/00.25
Einzeltermin am 30.5.2023, 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Shakespeare Reading Group

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 19:30, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits. Anybody interested in reading and discussing Shakespeare is very welcome, regardless of their course of studies.

Inhalt:

William Shakespeare's works are well known, or should be well known, to all students of English literature. However, when reading Shakespeare some people struggle to fully appreciate his language or his brilliantly designed characters.
This course aims at all of those students who would like to enjoy Shakespeare's works together with other students. Thus, we will not only read two pieces by Shakespeare per semester, we will also provide a platform for discussion or even stage a few scenes to further our understanding of what is going on. If you want to join us, you need not have any previous knowledge, only bring a copy of the play and sign up via e-mail to the lecturer to get access to Teams.
For more information on the Shakespeare Reading Group, please also see here: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/extracurriculare-aktivitaeten/shakespeare-reading-group/

Empfohlene Literatur:

William Shakespeare. Merchant of Venice. (first play to be read)
William Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida. (second play to be read)

The English Gothic Novel of the 18th Century

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

Seminar

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS und Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2023, 10:00 23.04.2023, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

When Horace Walpole “invented” the Gothic novel in 1764, little did he know what would happen to the new style of writing he introduced with his novella The Castle of Otranto. While the book itself was moderately successful in its own time, it sparked a genre that would take around 25 years to full develop and then dominate the literary scene for another 25 years. Haunted castles, gloomy mountains, oppressed heroines and brooding villains, banditti, ghosts, demons and dark aesthetics were “the rage” in the late 18th century and fascinated thousands of readers – and have continues to fascinate millions more. The excesses of the Gothic novel shock, provoke, and thrill contemporary and modern readers alike while they at the same time often cross into the (unwittingly) ridiculous. The Gothic novel has fascinated readers and (much late) scholars alike and Gothic has meanwhile become more than a genre.

This course specifically looks at the English Gothic novel of the long eighteenth century, starting with the universally acknowledged first Gothic text, The Castle of Otranto. We will study some of the most iconic and best-studied Gothic novels of the so called “first wave” of the 18th-century Gothic novel. Over the course of the semester, we will have a look at “female” and “male” Gothic, settings, aesthetics and further generic markers of the Gothic with the help of the primary reading. We will conclude the semester by looking at the Gothic Parody, a derivative genre of the Gothic novel with excerpts provide on the VC.

Students should be advised that this course will be very reading intensive as the primary sources tend to be rather long.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:
The following full texts must be prepared by the third week of the semester:

Beckford, William. Vathek. 1786.
Lewis, M.G. The Monk. 1796.
Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. 1794.
Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto. 2nd edition.

Excerpts from these texts will be provided on the VC over the course of the semester:

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1818.
Beckford, William. Azemia. 2nd edition. 1798
Burke, Edmund. On the Sublime and Beautiful. 1757.

Secondary literature will be provided via the VC.

Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies

Dozent/in:

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS

Termine:

Mi, 11:00 - 13:00, Online-Meeting

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Open for Master students in English and American Studies with Bamberg as their home university including the Joint Programme (including visiting students within the Joint Programme).
This tutorial is coordinated through the VC course "Tutorial for Students of MA English and American Studies", see here: https://vc.uni-bamberg.de/course/view.php?id=42647, and will be held entirely online via MS Teams.