Lehrende/r: Christoph Heyl
Veranstaltungsart: Vorlesung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 412
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | -
Anmeldegruppe: Lecture: English Literature IV (412)
Inhalt: This lecture is about London’s place in English literary and cultural history. We shall trace London’s development in terms of material and social structures and its rise to prominence as Europe’s first modern metropolis. Doing so, we shall consider the interplay between structures of the “brick and mortar” type and evolving urban patterns of behaviour. London’s social topography and typical modes of perception of the city and city life (collective mental maps etc.) will also be among this lecture’s key topics. At the same time, London will be discussed both as an emerging centre of printing and publishing and as a setting used in a large number of literary texts. London provided a unique set of special conditions for the production, marketing and reception of literature. It also featured as a major topic in many of the texts produced there; such texts both reflected and propagated perceptions of and attitudes towards the metropolis. This lecture will give you a chance to become acquainted with a wide range of literary texts and historical sources. It will be illustrated with a large number of images.
Empfohlene Literatur: Roy Porter, London. A Social History (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994) www.history.ac.uk/cmh/lpol (London’s Past Online, Centre for Metropolitan History / Royal Histori¬cal Society) www.museumoflondon.org.uk (Museum of London) www.bl.uk/londoninmaps (London in Maps, British Library).
