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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.522
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: GS II BS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
Despite its short lifespan from the end of the eighteenth to the first decades of the nineteenth century, Romanticism has proved a decisive intellectual and artistic force in Western cultures. Our modern understanding of the self, of love, marriage, but also art and literature and the ways in which these should be encountered, are still shaped by what Jerome McGann calls “the Romantic Ideology”. This course will assess Romanticism’s origins, its aesthetic programmes and literary output in the context of the political and economic conditions in which they developed. It will look at famous and not so famous Romantic writers and their texts. These will be analysed as artistic and intellectual endeavours and as responses to and interventions in a time when the modern bourgeois subject constituted itself. Political oppression, but also industrialisation and an emerging global capitalism, are crucial in this. Students should be prepared to engage with literary texts in all genres (poetry, drama, and prose), but also with cultural and philosophical manifestos. They should not be averse to more abstract theoretical inquiries into issues such as subjectivity and aesthetics.
Recommended reading list:
Required Purchase:
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein. 1818 Text. Ed. Marilyn Butler. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford et. al.: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. [please use this text only as others differ drastically.]
Most other texts will be taken from Duncan Wu, ed. Romanticism. An Anthology. 4th ed. Blackwell Anthologies. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. Print.
Recommended Reading:
Duncan Wu, ed. A Companion to Romanticism. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Oxford et al.: Blackwell, 2007. Print.
Christoph Reinfandt. Englische Romantik. Eine Einführung. Grundlagen der Anglistik und Amerikanistik 32. Berlin: Schmidt, 2008. Print.
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