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Lehrende/r: Dr. habil. Susanne Schmid
Veranstaltungsart:
Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
BS 412
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Inhalt:
With the emergence of the public sphere in the eighteenth century, London became the undisputed centre of commerce, culture, and also of a major market for print products. This lecture will probe into various aspects of London's high and low life, its public and private spaces, by resorting to diverse texts: essays from the early periodicals the Tatler and the Spectator, poems such as Jonathan Swift's "A Description of a City Shower," Frances Burney's epistolary novel Evelina, or Richard Brinsley Sheridan's satirical comedy The School for Scandal. The lecture will also deal with other regions, e.g. when analyzing Daniel Defoe's famous Robinson Crusoe, an early fantasy of colonial success. Moreover, we will look at developing conventions of the new genre of the novel. Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, a Gothic parody of the historical novel, will also be among out texts. Contexts of urban communication will be another topic: numerous societies, clubs, circles, coffee-houses, and associations offered opportunities for communication. The growth of journals facilitated debates about science, philosophy, political theory, and modernization. Please read the three novels below as well as the play; master copies of the shorter texts will be made available.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Reading:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, ed. John Richetti (London: Penguin Classics, 2003).
Frances Burney, Evelina, ed. Edward A. Bloom (Oxford: Oxford World's Classics/OUP, 2002).
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, ed. Michael Gamer (London: Penguin Classics, 2001).
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and Other Plays, ed. Eric S. Rump (London: Penguin Classics, 1988).
Recommended:
Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (London: Penguin, 2000).
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