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Monsters within and without: Policing the boundaries in fin-de-siècle British Literature and Culture- Dozent/in
- Dr. Robert Craig
- Angaben
- Übung
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
- Modulzegehörigkeit:
All modules including an obligatory or optional reading tutorial (Übung) for cultural studies for the following courses of study only:
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies
Studium Generale (not BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik!)
>> OPEN for Consolidation Module literary studies! (ÜBUNG)
Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
Active participation (individual tasks and group work)
Only Consolidation module (cultural studies): oral exam (see the 'Amerikanistik' website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/consolidation-module-ma/ ).
- 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 alien invasion: Bram Stoker s Dracula (1897) and H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds (1898).
- 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: 2
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Britische Kultur
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