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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft >> Seminare im Vertiefungsmodul und für Module des MA English and American Studies >>
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Romance and Reality: The Making of the English Novel 1800-1850- Dozent/in
- Simon Edwards
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 23.6.2017 16:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11; Einzeltermin am 24.6.2017 10:00 - 18:00, U11/00.16; Einzeltermin am 25.6.2017 10:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11
- 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)
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:
Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2017 (10:00) - 01.07.2017 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- While the novels of both Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters have acquired cult status in our own times, not least thanks to immensely popular TV and film adaptations, in their own time it was the historical fiction of Walter Scott, ‘The Wizard of the North’, that enjoyed an even greater standing.
As with Austen and the Brontes this was in part through adaptation for stage drama and opera. All of his novels were thus transformed, not merely in Britain but throughout Europe and America. While Scott is no longer widely read this course aims to examine one of his historical novels alongside those of Austen and Bronte. Austen and Scott expressed a mutual regard for each other’s work, though widely different in scope and emphasis. Yet they also share the qualities that are foundational for the work of their great successors in the 19c novel. They combine stories of passionate and frustrated love with closely observed and realised social settings, whereby romance is always held in check by reality. Our perception of what constitutes ‘character’ in the novel is radically shaped by these novelists. Likewise the novel’s attentiveness to matters of social class. Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is inconceivable without the example of both Scott and Austen. But we might also argue that without Scott there would be no Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Hardy, Henry James. Equally no Balzac, Fenimore Cooper, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy.
The novels to be read and studied are:
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)
NB. For students who are unfamiliar with the work of Scott they should begin reading The Bride of Lammermoor at chapter 2. Scott’s novels always contained a good deal of prefatory material which we can examine later in class. They should also prepare themselves for encountering (not insurmountable) Scottish dialect spoken by some of the characters. Most modern editions have a helpful glossary. The story is in fact spell-binding, testimony for which is provided by the three operatic versions, of which the best known is Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor (1835).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Walter Scott. The Bride of Lammermoor (1819)
Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights (1847)
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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