Instructors: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Event type: Lecture
Displayed in timetable as: 05.866.314
Hours per week: 2
Language of instruction: Englisch
Min. | Max. participants: - | -
Requirements / organisational issues: Concerns B.A.-students - PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS THE LECTURE AND NOT Prof. Herget's CULTURAL STUDIES IV COURSE (05.866.211): You can either attend Prof. Herget's lecture OR his Cultural Studies IV THIS semester. DO NOT REGISTER FOR BOTH of Prof. Herget's classes this semester!
Contents: The English settlers thought of “America” as a wilderness which was meant to be cultivated. This wilderness rhetoric becomes the master discourse for the USA up to the end of the 19th century. It served as a rationalization and justification of the dispossession of Native Americans. By the middle of the 19th century, wilderness was recognized as a necessary space of recreation and that needed to be preserved. The lecture course will discuss the ideology and practice of dealing with the natural environment from the early Puritans to the more recent “Wilderness Act”.
