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To Divert and Entertain, to Instruct and Improve: The Eighteenth-Century Novel [Import]- Dozent/in
- Dr. Susan Brähler
- Angaben
- Proseminar/Übung
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Do 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11 (außer Do 26.1.2017); Einzeltermin am 26.1.2017 10:00 - 12:00, KR14/00.06
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Ergänzungsmodul Englische Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
1.2 Reading Tutorial (Übung)
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) in
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
- MA English and American Studies
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017
(10:00-23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- [T]o divert and entertain, and at the same time to instruct and improve the minds. This is what Samuel Richardson famously defines in the poetological Preface to his epistolary novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) as one of the core objectives of the histories, lives and journals that we have come to identify as novels. Entertainment and instruction are core elements of 18th-century novel writing and will also be crucial to this seminar on the 18th-century novel: students will learn about 18th-century thought and (literary) culture and discuss some of the most entertaining novels of the English literary canon.
The 18th century is often considered as the moment at which modern literary culture begins and also sees the emergence of the novel as we have come to know it. We will thus set out to trace the origins of the novel and learn how the first novelists defined this new genre (novel vs. romance; truth and virtue; individualism and authenticity). After these preliminaries, we will gain a glimpse of the enormous diversity of 18th-century novel writing both with respect to different sub-genres and with respect to its develop ment over the course of the century. We will not only focus on Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding, the authors most associated with the rise of the novel ever since Ian Watt s groundbreaking study of the same title (1957), but also consider novels by now canonized women writers such as Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood.
Students will study the Puritanism and Empiricism of Daniel Defoe s adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), Samuel Richardson s psychological realism in Pamela (1740), Henry Fielding s parodies of the sentimental novel (Shamela 1741, Joseph Andrews 1742) and explore the possibilities of authorial narration in Tom Jones (1749). We will study Eliza Haywood s amatory novel Love in Excess (1719) and Frances Burney s novel of development Evelina (1778) for the ways in which they construct a female subjectivity. Jonathan Swift s satire Gulliver s Travels (1726), Laurence Sterne s experimental novel Tristram Shandy (1759-67), Oliver Goldsmith s sentimental novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) and Horace Walpole s Gothic novel The Castle of Otranto (1765) will complete our overview of 18th-century novel writing.
Hopefully, in the course of the semester, students will come to disagree with Samuel Johnson who decried [t]these books as being written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle with minds unfurnished with ideas (The Rambler, 31 March 1750) and will appreciate them as still being worthy of in-depth study.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory Reading:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719) [excerpts only]
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver s Travels (1726) [excerpts only]
Samuel Richardson, Pamela (1740) [excerpts only]
Henry Fielding, Shamela (1741), Joseph Andrews (1742), Tom Jones 1749) [excerpts only of all three novels]
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1766)
Frances Burney, Evelina (1778) [excerpts only]
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67), A Sentimental Journey (1768) [excerpts only]
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764)
Students need to buy copies of Robinson Crusoe, The Vicar of Wakefield and The Castle of Otranto.
Excerpts of all other novels listed above will be made available on the Virtual Campus. Please get in touch with your lecturer to get hold of the password.
Recommended Reading:
London, April. The Cambridge Introduction to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.
McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987.
Nixon, Cheryl L., ed. Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on the Novel 1688-1815. Peterborough: Broadview P, 2008.
Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen. New York: Blackwell, 1986.
Watt, Ian P. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. 1957. 2nd. ed. Berkeley: U California P, 2001.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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