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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.313
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 313
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
It is strongly recommended that students have taken the following classes before signing up:
· at least one Proseminar in (American) literary studies
· Written English I
· Cultural Studies I – American Studies
Contents:
In this seminar students will explore key texts from the literary movements of American realism and naturalism between 1865 and the turn of the century. We will explore seminal narrative strategies that characterize the works of American "realists." In addition to discussing realism as a literary style and movement, we will investigate the cultural background to various strands of American literary realism. The seminar will conclude with a discussion of how American authors began to embrace literary naturalism in the last decade of the 19th century.
Please purchase a copy of the following editions before the beginning of the semester:
- William Dean Howells. The Rise of Silas Lapham. Penguin Classics, 1986.
- Charles W. Chesnutt. The Marrow of Tradition. Edited by Werner Sollors. Norton Critical Editions. Norton, 2012.
- Kate Chopin. The Awakening. Edited by Margo Culley. Norton Critical Editions, Norton, 2017.
Additional texts and readings will be made available at the beginning of the semester through JGU-LMS.
Recommended reading list:
Barrish, Phillip J. The Cambridge Introduction to American Literary Realism. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Fluck, Winfried. “Realismus, Naturalismus, Vormoderne (1865–1910).” Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte, edited by Hubert Zapf. Metzler, 2010, 153–215.
Lamb, Robert Paul and G.R. Thompson, editors. A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914. Blackwell, 2005.
Pizer, Donald, editor. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge UP, 1995.
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