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Seminar/Hauptseminar: The Enlightenment in Britain and America- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Don Siebert
- Angaben
- Seminar/Hauptseminar
benoteter Schein, angeboten für Alps Adriatic Joint Degree in English and American Studies
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 8.5.2009 14:00 - 18:00, U11/025; Einzeltermin am 9.5.2009 8:00 - 12:00, U11/025; Einzeltermin am 15.5.2009 14:00 - 18:00, U11/025; Einzeltermin am 16.5.2009 8:00 - 12:00, U11/025; Einzeltermin am 29.5.2009 14:00 - 18:00, U11/025; Einzeltermin am 30.5.2009 8:00 - 12:00, U11/025
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzungen:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
- LA neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Profilmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- LA alt (alle), Diplom, Magister: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
- Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects: Module English Literature (8 or 6 ECTS)
- Joint Degree: Restricted Electives: Seminar in Literature (8 or 6 ECTS)
2. Voraussetzungen für Schein- bzw. Punktevergabe:
8 ECTS:
regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme; Präsentation; Hausarbeit in englischer Sprache nach Maßgabe des Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 Wörter; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 Wörter, Abgabetermin: 24. August 2009)
6 ECTS:
regelmäßige aktive Teilnahme, Präsentation mit schriftlicher Ausarbeitung
3. Anmeldung:
Vom 9. Februar 2009 (9 Uhr) bis 17. April 2009 (10 Uhr) über FlexNow!
Informationen zur Ammeldung in FlexNow!:
http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_pruefungen/
- Inhalt
- Professor Siebert's scholarly interests are focused on the literature and intellectual history of the Early Modern Period, particularly from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries—the so-called "long eighteenth century." He has published widely on British, American, and Continental writers, including such major figures as Lessing, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Hume. He has edited two volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) on British prose-writers of the 18th century and is the author of a prize-winning book, The Moral Animus of David Hume. Two of his essays are reprinted in a series representing the most important to have appeared in The Journal of the History of Ideas.
"The Enlightenment in Britain and America" is designed as a short (four to five weeks) and selective introduction to the literature and thought of the period written in English. Under the assumption that there are several major themes or foci characterizing the Enlightenment (Die Aufkarung, Les Lumieres), we will survey the contributions of Bacon, Locke, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Johnson, and Burke, and sample such figures as Chesterfield, Joshua Reynolds, and James Boswell as reflectors of the Enlightenment Zeitgeist, but we will spend more time on a few representative authors—Franklin and Jefferson in America—and Gibbon and Hume in Britain.
This seminar is interdisciplinary in nature and thus should appeal to students in humanistic fields besides literary study. We will approach each text both as literary critics and as intellectual historians.
Students will be expected to give a fifteen-minute presentation and later to submit a paper representing original research or thought. During the session I would like to have one or two conferences (or tutorials) with individual students.
Please note that the finished paper or essay could be submitted after the seminar is completed. Four weeks may not be enough time to do the required reading, attend the classes, make a presentation, and write a paper as well. Thus it would be possible for you to send your paper to me at a later date, and it would be a good idea, in any case, for me to look over a rough draft of the paper, or even part of it, before it is submitted for evaluation.
In the second week I need to know the subject of the student presentation and paper. I recommend an independent treatment of a primary text that has not received too much, if any, scholarly attention and commentary but nonetheless has interest and importance in its own right—such as the correspondence, journals, memoirs of a representative figure; or a somewhat neglected but important book, such as William Bartram's Travels [through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida], Oliver Goldsmith's Citizen of the World or indeed any number of works [see the bibliography in my DLB, vol. 104, pp. 120-121], Reynolds's Discourses on Art, Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, some of Franklin's overlooked writings (in the Papers of Benjamin Franklin), or William Robertson's assessment of the American Indian versus the Indian Indian. These are just a few possibilities, and a more complete list of suggested topics will be available at the beginning of the course. Students can certainly propose their own topics, subject to approval by the instructor. If someone were particularly interested in art or music history or aesthetics, or architecture, or the history of science, or political theory, for example, then there may be a work or group of texts suitable for a topic.
A photocopied collection of readings will be made available at the beginning of the course.
If students wish to get a headstart, then they might begin some of the readings listed here and perhaps consider what they might want to choose as a topic for the presentation and essay. If anyone wants to consult with me before I get to Bamberg, then please do write to me at this email address: dts@earthlink.net [one may need to include some kind of routing for the USA].
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please purchase:
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 1C, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Addison, Wesley, Longman)—any edition.
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, abridgement by David Wormsley (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-043764-5) [or any full copy or abridgement]
A copy of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, preferably including "other writings"—such as the one of that title published by Penguin (ISBN 978-14-039006-3); or The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-303954-9).
The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-015080-3). (This one is optional, although some book with Jefferson's writings, including the American Declaration of Independence, would be helpful to have.)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
- LA neu GY: Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS), Zugangsvoraussetzung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Profilmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- MA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Erweiterungsmodul: Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 1 oder 2: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante I): Seminar (8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich Anglistik/Amerikanistik im Rahmen anderer MA: Exportmodul Anglistik/Amerikanistik 2: Mastermodul Literaturwissenschaft (Variante II): Seminar (6 ECTS)
- LA alt (alle), Diplom, Master: Hauptseminar Literaturwissenschaft, Zugangsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung oder Hauptseminaraufnahmeprüfung
- Joint Degree: Compulsory Subjects: Module English Literature (8 or 6 ECTS)
- Joint Degree: Restricted Electives: Seminar in Literature (8 or 6 ECTS)
2. Requirements to obtain ECTS:
8 ECTS:
regular active participation; presentation; term paper in English according to Style Sheet (BA: 3.500-4.500 words; Magister, Lehramt, Master: 4.500-6.000 words)
6 ECTS:
regular active participation, presentation (with short paper)
3. Registration:
from 09.02.2009 to 17.04.2009 via Flexnow.
- Contents
- Professor Siebert's scholarly interests are focused on the literature and intellectual history of the Early Modern Period, particularly from the late 17th to the early 19th centuries—the so-called "long eighteenth century." He has published widely on British, American, and Continental writers, including such major figures as Lessing, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Hume. He has edited two volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) on British prose-writers of the 18th century and is the author of a prize-winning book, The Moral Animus of David Hume. Two of his essays are reprinted in a series representing the most important to have appeared in The Journal of the History of Ideas.
"The Enlightenment in Britain and America" is designed as a short (four to five weeks) and selective introduction to the literature and thought of the period written in English. Under the assumption that there are several major themes or foci characterizing the Enlightenment (Die Aufkarung, Les Lumieres), we will survey the contributions of Bacon, Locke, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Johnson, and Burke, and sample such figures as Chesterfield, Joshua Reynolds, and James Boswell as reflectors of the Enlightenment Zeitgeist, but we will spend more time on a few representative authors—Franklin and Jefferson in America—and Gibbon and Hume in Britain.
This seminar is interdisciplinary in nature and thus should appeal to students in humanistic fields besides literary study. We will approach each text both as literary critics and as intellectual historians.
Students will be expected to give a fifteen-minute presentation and later to submit a paper representing original research or thought. During the session I would like to have one or two conferences (or tutorials) with individual students.
Please note that the finished paper or essay could be submitted after the seminar is completed. Four weeks may not be enough time to do the required reading, attend the classes, make a presentation, and write a paper as well. Thus it would be possible for you to send your paper to me at a later date, and it would be a good idea, in any case, for me to look over a rough draft of the paper, or even part of it, before it is submitted for evaluation.
In the second week I need to know the subject of the student presentation and paper. I recommend an independent treatment of a primary text that has not received too much, if any, scholarly attention and commentary but nonetheless has interest and importance in its own right—such as the correspondence, journals, memoirs of a representative figure; or a somewhat neglected but important book, such as William Bartram's Travels [through the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida], Oliver Goldsmith's Citizen of the World or indeed any number of works [see the bibliography in my DLB, vol. 104, pp. 120-121], Reynolds's Discourses on Art, Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, some of Franklin's overlooked writings (in the Papers of Benjamin Franklin), or William Robertson's assessment of the American Indian versus the Indian Indian. These are just a few possibilities, and a more complete list of suggested topics will be available at the beginning of the course. Students can certainly propose their own topics, subject to approval by the instructor. If someone were particularly interested in art or music history or aesthetics, or architecture, or the history of science, or political theory, for example, then there may be a work or group of texts suitable for a topic.
A photocopied collection of readings will be made available at the beginning of the course.
If students wish to get a headstart, then they might begin some of the readings listed here and perhaps consider what they might want to choose as a topic for the presentation and essay. If anyone wants to consult with me before I get to Bamberg, then please do write to me at this email address: dts@earthlink.net [one may need to include some kind of routing for the USA].
- Literature
- Please purchase:
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 1C, The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Addison, Wesley, Longman)—any edition.
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, abridgement by David Wormsley (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-043764-5) [or any full copy or abridgement]
A copy of Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, preferably including "other writings"—such as the one of that title published by Penguin (ISBN 978-14-039006-3); or The Portable Benjamin Franklin (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-303954-9).
The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Penguin ISBN 978-0-14-015080-3). (This one is optional, although some book with Jefferson's writings, including the American Declaration of Independence, would be helpful to have.)
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
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