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Daniel Defoe- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Studium Generale
Zeit: Do 16:00 - 18:00
- 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)
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- His writings offer “lessons of experience” writes Paula Backscheider in her seminal biography of Daniel Defoe. She continues to describe this dissenter, propagandist, journalist, spy, businessman, and - last but not least - novelist as a man not of theories and ideas, but of keen observations and practical insights in the world he grew up in: “His was a life of struggle and survival and of hard-won economic security and literary achievement. Indeed, the nature of his life was marked by his birth in the busiest, most crowded part of London and by the upheaval in his early years.” Defoe’s work and life offers a marvelous access to a whole period, a period which gave rise to the world we still live in. Freedom and constitutional rights, political advancement and corruption, prosperity and unspeakable poverty, a society in which every object and every service may turn into a commodity that used to be either sinful or in the domain of family and tradition. Materialism and the right to accumulate money changed this world for good and turned everything upside down which used to give orientation to people. These challenges were embraced by the progressive mind of Defoe, but also scrutinised by the novelist who represented the hardships of this new world of freedom and money.
We will read Robinson Crusoe, and Moll Flanders and excerpts from many other works such as Journal of a Plague Year that describes the effect of a pandemic on individuals and society, Roxana, the story of young woman who embraces life and fights for independence. Other excerpts will be taken from Defoe’s prolific journalistic and propaganda writings, particularly “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters”, but also his ideas about granting asylum to war refugees from Germany and immigration and his enthusiasm in describing the benefits of a trading society for everybody.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory reading:
Students should have read Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders by the beginning of the semester. Paula Backscheider’s biography is highly recommended.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Daniel Defoe
- Credits: 8
- Prerequisites
- 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)
open for Consolidation Module Literature (seminar)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2021, 10:00 - 25.04.2021, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- His writings offer “lessons of experience” writes Paula Backscheider in her seminal biography of Daniel Defoe. She continues to describe this dissenter, propagandist, journalist, spy, businessman, and - last but not least - novelist as a man not of theories and ideas, but of keen observations and practical insights in the world he grew up in: “His was a life of struggle and survival and of hard-won economic security and literary achievement. Indeed, the nature of his life was marked by his birth in the busiest, most crowded part of London and by the upheaval in his early years.” Defoe’s work and life offers a marvelous access to a whole period, a period which gave rise to the word we still live in. Freedom and constitutional rights, political advancement and corruption, prosperity and unspeakable poverty, a society in which every object and every service may turn into a commodity that used to be either sinful or in the domain of family and tradition. Materialism and the right to accumulate money changed this world for good and turned everything upside down which used to give orientation to people. These challenges were embraced by the progressive mind of Defoe, but also scrutinised by the novelist who represented the hardships of this new world of freedom and money.
We will read Robinson Crusoe, and Moll Flanders and excerpts from many other works such as Journal of a Plague Year that describes the effect of a pandemic on individuals and society, Roxana, the story of young woman who embraces life and fights for independence. Other excerpts will be taken from Defoe’s prolific journalistic and propaganda writings, particularly “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters”, but also his ideas about granting asylum to war refugees from Germany and immigration and his enthusiasm in describing the benefits of a trading society for everybody.
- Literature
- Obligatory reading:
Students should have read Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders by the beginning of the semester. Paula Backscheider’s biography is highly recommended.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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