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Monsters within and without: Policing the boundaries in fin-de-siècle British Literature and Culture [Import]- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 23.07.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 22.10.2021 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 13.12.2021 (10:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2022 (23:59 Uhr)
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, LU19/00.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul
Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability
I. Literaturwissenschaft:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft
Please note that you can find this 'Literaturwissenschaft' seminar listed under the rubric of 'LS Britische Kultur' in FlexNow.
II. Kulturwissenschaft:
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)
The Aufbaumodul will be examined by a term paper (3,000-4,000 words); the Ergänzungsmodul will be assessed by an oral examination. Further information on the examinations can be obtained from this address: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/studium/ .
- Inhalt
- “[A]s unknown […] as the darkest reaches of Africa.” As a description of the backstreets of London, this quotation, from Arthur Machen’s 1895 horror novel The Three Imposters, is typical of tropes of ‘otherness’ routinely employed in late nineteenth-century British culture. As the Empire reached its high-water mark, and British society exulted in its own self-confidence, an anxiety at ‘the alien’ was growing in the shadows and at the margins. Even (or perhaps precisely) at the end of a century that had seen the unprecedented advance of science and technology, both the fear and the fascination around ghosts, monsters, and devils of all kinds was permeating literary and cultural production. A sense that secure borders were crumbling found a virulent focal point in a growing fear of the impact of mass immigration, especially from Eastern Europe.
The primary focus of this seminar will be British and Irish literature and culture of the fin de siècle. In particular, we shall consider how literary texts both figured and reflected insecurities and anxieties about human and social identity in relation to its many ‘others’. Beginning with a contextual introduction, which will present the scientific, philosophical, and medical backdrop to our texts, we shall develop our theoretical framework around Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘Das Unheimliche’ (1919). This will be followed by a selection of Gothic short stories, and novellas and novels that articulate alterity in its myriad forms. We will begin with Robert Louis Stevenson’s chilling ‘tales of terror’ ‘The Body Snatcher’ (1884), The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and ‘Olalla’ (1896). Moving through Henry James’s brilliantly subtle and uncanny ghost stories, we will conclude the course with two of the fin de siècle’s greatest novels of aliens and monstrous Others: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- I. Primärliteratur:
Please buy and read all the novels in the exact editions stated here. If you buy Kindle versions, or the like, you need to make sure that they include the exact (corresponding) page numbers.
Sigmund Freud, ‘Das Unheimliche’ (1919).
Henry James, ‘Sir Edmund Orme’, in James, The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories, repr. ed. (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008). https://www.amazon.de/Screw-Stories-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199536171
Henry James, ‘Owen Wingrave’, in ibid.
Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Olalla’, in Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror, repr. ed. (London: Penguin Classics, 2003). https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strange-Jekyll-Terror-Penguin-Classics/dp/0141439734
Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘The Body Snatcher’, in ibid.
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, in ibid.
Bram Stoker, Dracula (London: Penguin Classics, 2003). https://www.amazon.de/Dracula-Penguin-Classics-Bram-Stoker/dp/014143984X
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (London: Penguin Classics, 2007). https://www.amazon.de/-/en/H-G-Wells-ebook/dp/B002RI96W6/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=H.+G.+Wells+the+Time+Machine+Penguin&qid=1634820460&qsid=262-3822564-1105617&sr=8-2&sres=0141199342%2C1659539153%2CB09J9YKB33%2C0241277493%2CB09JC8X8ZV%2CB013INN6M4%2CB09252T6FJ%2CB09HMCLKCL%2C0140817824%2CB09BMZ9PNS%2CB0986Z57G1%2CB09HH74ZJ4%2CB00GX32ULU%2CB07PN7FHCG%2C184749627X%2C177476119X&srpt=ABIS_BOOK
Freud’s essay, ‘Das Unheimliche’, along with other materials on ‘the uncanny’, will be made available on the VC.
II. Sekundärliteratur:
A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first few weeks of the semester.
Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Monsters within and without: Policing the boundaries in fin-de-siècle British Literature and Culture
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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