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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >>

  The Novel in the 1790s

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben
Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 18:00, MG2/01.02; Einzeltermin am 14.6.2019 14:00 - 17:00, 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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt
In this seminar we will read Jacobin and anti-Jacobin literature written in 1790s in the wake of the French Revolution and its impact on British politics in the 1790s. After Edmund Burke had published his book on The Revolution in France (1790), those who wanted to reform the English political institutions were under the suspicion of starting a revolution in England. The radicals were accused of sedition and high treason and prosecuted. On the other hand, the so-called anti-Jacobin novel and Hannah More's cheap repository tracts tried to popularise conservative and loyal belief systems in a similar way the radicals did with theirs. Literature became a means to distribute philosophical and political ideas and to educate the reading public appropriately. A third group of novels, such as those by Jane Austen, tried to keep out of politics altogether and to write as if the age of revolution had no influence on literature.

Empfohlene Literatur
Although the focus will be on Jacobin literature, we will work on how political and philosophical ideas shaped various identities in the literature of the 1790s. Some of the authors read in this seminar will be William Godwin, John Thelwall, Hannah More, Jane Austen and other less known writers whose work is available in the Eighteenth Century Collection Online (ECCO). Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Godwin, William. Caleb Williams (1794) Thelwall, John. The Daughter of Adoption (1801) More, Hannah. "History of Mr Fantom, the New-Fashioned Philosopher, and his Man William" (1795) Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (written 1797, publ. 1813)

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Credits: 8

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

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