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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Professur für Amerikanistik >>
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The American Civil War - History, Literature, Culture- Dozentinnen/Dozenten
- Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt, Prof. Dr. Sabine Freitag
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium, Unterrichtssprache Deutsch/English on demand
Zeit und Ort: Blockveranstaltung 19.9.2025-26.9.2025 Mo-Fr, Sa, So, Raum n.V.
Vorbesprechung: 20.5.2025, 12:15 - 13:45 Uhr, Raum U9/01.11
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including a specialization level seminar (Hauptseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- LA GY (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- MA English and American Studies (Seminar 4, 5, 6, or 8 ECTS)
- Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies (Seminar 8 ECTS)
- Erasmus and other visiting students (Seminar 6 or 8 ECTS)
>> Open for Consolidation Module literary studies and cultural studies!
Please note: To study modules in the MA English and American Studies as a student from other Master programs, students need to have a minimum score of 60 of 100 points in the English Placement Test (see § 38 der StuFPO). The test is offered once every semester (usually during the beginner s week) and can be retaken any number of times.
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- This compact seminar welcomes English and History students. It offers a unique chance to study together and learn from each other in an affordable retreat in the French Alps (Haus Giersch, Manigod).
- Only limited places available, so sign up now by sending an email to [mailto:christine.gerhardt@uni-bamberg.de] or [mailto:sabine.freitag@uni-bamberg.de]!
- There will be a 2-hour pre-meeting in May which all interested students need to attend, since all organizational questions will be addressed during that meeting.
- The seminar will use German and English flexibly, as needed, so students should be at least somewhat confident in both languages.
- Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation and write a final research paper (consolidation module: oral exam).
3. FlexNow-Registration (American Studies):
Please register for this class by sending an E-mail to the instructor directly!
- Course (de)enrollment: March 24 - April 30, 2025 (10 AM - 11:59 PM)
- ECTS/Exams (de)registration: Monday, June 30 (10 AM) - Monday, July 14 (11:59 PM)
- Inhalt
- The American Civil War marks a major turning point in American history and American literature. Indeed, both developments are closely related. Almost three million soldiers fought, and 600,000 died in this war of the rebellion black and white, native and immigrant, men and women; Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent military actions freed over one million individuals from slavery; at the end of this first modern war in American history, large parts of the US South lay in ruins. Yet according to Lincoln, what had started this unprecedented war was Harriet Beecher Stowe s sentimental novel Uncle Tom s Cabin (1851). This bestseller had joined forces with hundreds of autobiographies by escaped slaves who described their heroic struggles for freedom as well as the horrors of human bondage in detail, while growing numbers of poems and stories explored the social and political rifts that challenged the ideal of a unified American nation.
The Civil War, then, marked a shift from a predominantly agrarian to a more urban, industrialized United States, and a shift from American romanticism to realism. In this seminar, we will explore both of these developments together. Which stories do historical documents, photographs, and speeches tell, compared to the perspectives afforded by literary texts of various genres? How do documents and literary texts from that era talk about America s regional diversity in relation to the country s racial, economic, and gender inequalities? And how do they link politics to people s everyday lives? Finally, how can a major socio-political upheaval like a Civil War, and the massive personal traumas it involves, be represented at all and what are the connections between history and literature, and between hegemonic and subversive discourses in historiography and literary history?
Organizational details:
- This compact seminar welcomes English and History students. It offers a unique chance to study together and learn from each other in an affordable retreat in the French Alps (Haus Giersch, Manigod).
- Only limited places available, so sign up now by sending an email to [mailto:christine.gerhardt@uni-bamberg.de] or [mailto:sabine.freitag@uni-bamberg.de]!
- There will be a 2-hour pre-meeting in May which all interested students need to attend, since all organizational questions will be addressed during that meeting.
- The seminar will use German and English flexibly, as needed, so students should be at least somewhat confident in both languages.
- Each participant will give a 20-minute presentation and write a final research paper (consolidation module: oral exam).
General daily structure:
- seminar sessions: ca. 9AM - 2PM, incl. lunch break
- free afternoons: to read, prepare, and explore nearby mountains and towns
- film evenings: Glory (1989), Ride with the Devil (1999), Lincoln (2012) or other movies (suggestions welcome!
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Suggested seminar materials topics will be chosen according to students interests:
(1) AMERICAN STUDIES: literary texts such as
- Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave (1852)
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (excerpts) (1861)
- Louisa May Alcott, from Hospital Sketches (1863)
- Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Fearless Purpose: A Blind Nurse in the Civil War (1880)
- Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie (1861-1865, publ. 1905)
- Frances E.W. Harper, selected poetry
- Emily Dickinson, selected poetry (1860s)
- Walt Whitman, selected poetry and prose (1855-1870s)
(2) HISTORY STUDIES:
historical documents and articles about
- slavery and abolitionism
- the founding of the Republican Party
- President Lincoln s Election
- the Kansas Nebraska Act
- the Missouri Compromise
- the Southern secession
- and other documents
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- The American Civil War - History, Literature, Culture
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20
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