Lehrveranstaltung

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)
Master Module British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module British and American Culture I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module British and American Culture I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Module or Profile Module I or III British and American Culture: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

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

“In 1872, W. H. Mallock published a mock-literary cookbook for aspiring poets. One ‘recipe’ was entitled ‘How to Write a Modern Pre-Raphaelite Poem’. Among the recommended ingredients were: ‘obsolete and unintelligible’ words, ‘a perfectly vacant atmosphere’, ‘three damozels, dressed in straight nightgowns’, ‘a stone wall’, ‘trees and flowers’, as well as stars, aureoles and lilies. ‘When you have arranged all these objects rightly,’ the recipe continued, ‘take a cast of them in the softest part of your brain, and pour in your word-composition.’” Dinah Roe introduces her anthology of writings of The Pre-Raphaelits from Rossetti to Ruskin (2010) with this entertaining summary of a contemporary critic. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement began in 1848, and experienced its peak in the 1860s and 1870s. Pre-Raphaelite poetry was influenced by Romanticism, but developed independent ideas, forms and focuses. This movement tried to escape the industrialised world and concentrated on idealistic themes such as romantic love and poetic imagination. It finally became utterly divorced from reality when it emphasized art for art’s sake.

We will discuss the works of poetry and art categorised as belonging to Pre-Raphaelitism and try to establish an understanding that goes beyond the contemporary criticism of rejecting it as naive rather conceptualising it as a counter-culture opposing Victorian earnestness and realism.

Pre-Raphaelite poets include Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne, George Meredith, Christina Rossetti, William Bell Scott, William Allingham, Arthur O’Shaughnessy and John Payne. Painters such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, James Collinson and Frederic Stephens, and others opposed the aesthetics of the London’s Royal Academy of Arts founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) in 1848. In a period of revolutions, the movement remained astonishingly apolitical with the exception of William Morris and Swinburne.

Empfohlene Literatur

Please purchase Dinah Roe’s anthology. Additional texts will be made available.

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Credits: 8

Zusätzliche Informationen

Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

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Pre-Raphaelite Literature and Art in Victorian Britain

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