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Lehrende/r: Elizabeth Hewitt
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
GradSem I
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Über die Senatsrichtlinie hinaus werden bei der Platzvergabe für diese Veranstaltung Studierende höherer Fachsemester bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Blockveranstaltung
Der Kurs beginnt am 1. Juni und wird 4 stündig mittwochs von 10 - 14 Uhr
in der kleinen Bibliothek, 1.OG gehalten.
Inhalt:
The course will focus on writing - imaginative, economic, and political - in the first decades of American nationalism, after the Constitutional Congress of 1787 through the end of the Jefferson administration in 1809. We will begin with the conflicts between Washington's secretaries of treasury and state, which in many years embodied debates about what was to be the political, economic, and literary character of the new nation. We will read literature in the larger context of several crucial political debates of the period: about federalist authority, about public debt and taxation, about the centrality of agriculture, manufacturing, and trade in shaping American economic power, about the revolutions in France and Haiti, about slavery and the expanding borders of the United States, and about the American attempts at neutrality in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars.
We will begin by concentrating especially on the controversies occasioned by Hamilton's three economic proposal - for public debt refinancing, for a national bank, and for an expansion of American manufacturing through governmental intervention - as in many ways, these debates over these set the tenor for the partisan debates that led up to the Civil War. While we will read extensively in the literature focused explicitly on these issues of policy, our attention will be expecially focused on the ways that such quarrels about finance and national wealth were framed as conflicts about literary style - not merely about how writing should convey meaning, but how imaginative writing ought to represent larger systems, like trade, that comprised the world. This focus on global systems is more than a mere recognition that late 18th and early 19th century writers living in the United States understood themselves as part of an international community, but raises the significant question: was there an attempt at this historical moment to represent this imbrication in global systems in imaginative writing? Can we locate this attempt by attending to literary structure? Are the formal irregularities of texts like "Modern Chivalry, The Gleaner, Algerine Captive" an attempt to pattern social systems in prose? To this end some of the authors on whom we will focus (besides Hamilton and Jefferson) include: Joel Barlow, Joseph Dennie, Philip Freneau, Judith Sargent Murray, Leonora Sansay, John Taylor of Caroline, Royall Tyler, and Merci Otis Warren.
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