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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELC 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Students should have a good command of English and be willing to participate in class discussions. The knowledge gained in Introductions to Literary Studies will help as well as any knowledge about Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
Contents:
The seminar will deal with four classics of British Children’s Literature, starting with Peter Pan as a typical, but not unproblematic work from the so-called “golden age” of the genre. The Secret Garden and The Railway Children show the genre in transition to a more modern world, while Five on a Treasure Island will end the seminar with a popular but also contested text. The novels will be analysed in terms of structure, style, and characterization and placed inside their ideological contexts, where issues of class and gender as well as the family as a central cultural concept will feature prominently.
All texts are now out of copyright and easily available. If students wish to purchase printed editions, I have recommended them in the appropriate section together with possible background reading. A lecture on "British Children's Literature" is also on offer this term and can be attended as a whole or in parts by students in this seminar.
Recommended reading list:
James M. Barrie (1993 [1904]): Peter Pan. Ed. Erhard Dahl. Stuttgart: Reclam. Fremdsprachentexte. Reclams Universal-Bibliothek.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012 [1911]): The Secret Garden. London: Vintage. Vintage Children’s Classics.
Edith Nesbit (2012 [1906]): The Railway Children. London: Everyman’s Library. Children’s Classics.
Enid Blyton (2017 [1942]): Five on a Treasure Island. London: Hodder & Stoughton. Hodder Children’s Books.
Introductory Background Reading:
Daniel Hahn, ed. (2015): The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. 2nd ed. Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press. ebook.
Matthew O. Grenby, ed. (2009): The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature. Cambridge et al: Cambridge University Press. ebook.
Digital teaching:
This seminar will be taught live. Should conditions prevent this it will be taught via BigBlueButton.
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