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Lehrende/r: Dr. Nele Sawallisch
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
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05.866.313
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
8,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: AS 313
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
- Introduction to American Studies/Literary Studies (115)
- Written English I
- Proseminar (122)
- Willingness to perform a lot of reading and willingness to participate actively in class (this is a class on NOVELS; if reading long texts is not for you, do not join this course)
Inhalt:
This advanced literary studies class will look at the rise of the novel form in the United States from the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. This means that we will restrict ourselves to fictional texts, and therefore exclude (auto)biographies and slave narratives. We will concern ourselves with a variety of authors and of subgenres that have shaped the novel through time, such as the Gothic, sentimental, frontier, antislavery novel, the novella, the historical Romance and realist fiction, to name but a few. We will also consider the topics such novels have addressed, from the treatment of Native Americans to women’s rights, abolition, or social reform, and look at theories of the novel in the young United States in both national and transatlantic contexts.
STUDY SKILLS:
- perform critical thinking and literary analysis
- know how to differentiate between an argumentative thesis and a descriptive statement
- know how to formulate a research thesis for a term paper
- be able to write a term paper
- be able to perform independent research
- present research in front of peers
- give critical feedback
CONTENT: After taking this course, students will…
- be able to identify representative authors, texts, and literary periods in the discussions on the American novel
- contextualize such texts in American historical, political, intellectual periods and events
- identify, compare, critically reflect on aesthetic as well as ideological agendas
Empfohlene Literatur:
We will read the following texts, in this order:
- Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton (1797)
- Charles Brockden Brown, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1803-1805)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlett Letter (1850)
- William Wells Brown, Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter (1853) (online access via https://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/brown/menu.html)
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
With the exception of Wells Brown, all of these are contained in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 9th ed., Vols A, B, C, and therefore available in the library.
I strongly advise to read the first three texts before the semester; you will hardly be able to keep up with the schedule otherwise.
We will be writing mandatory response papers about the texts we study in class.
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