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Instructors: Dr. Jochen Ecke
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: ELC 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In this class, we are going to explore the representation of social stratification in British fiction from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Social class is one of the perennial themes of the British novel - small wonder, since the birth of the novel itself coincided with the birth of the middle class(es). First, we are going to have a look at Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854) for an in-depth discussion of the complex connections between the Industrial Revolution and ideas about social class. Then we will transition to the early 20th century with D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (1913) for a more introspective point of view on class. Finally, we will turn to the 21st century with Sunjeev Sahota's The Year of the Runaways (2015).
Recommended reading list:
Please buy all three novels. Digital versions are fine. Here are the preferred editions:
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn. North and South. Edited by Angus Easson and Sally Shuttleworth, Oxford UP, 2008. (Oxford World's Classics, paperback)
Lawrence, D.H. Sons and Lovers. Edited by David Trotter, Oxford UP, 2009. (Oxford World's Classics, paperback)
Sahota, Sunjeev. The Year of the Runaways. Picador, 2016.
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