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Instructors: Sarah Wegener
Event type:
online: Seminar/proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.123
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: ELC 123
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
A thorough knowledge of all texts and materials is a precondition for obtaining credits in this course. Regular participation in class-discussions is mandatory. As part of their active participation, students will participate in an expert group, and complete several shorter tasks.
Contents:
“The filthy mass that moved and talked” (Shelley 103) – The literature of the nineteenth century is crowded with bodies. Major advance in anatomical and medical sciences shifted the public imaginary, away from the purely spiritual, onto the very haptic materiality of the human body, its texture, workings and malfunctionings. The body became something to be studied from the inside, to be dissected, infected, treated, cured, hidden or clothed.
Working with novels, poems and the occasional short story, this course will look at literary representations of bodies in a variety of nineteenth-century texts. From the anatomical body, to the sick and the disabled body, from the gendered body to the hidden, imprisoned or ageing one, we will attempt to trace the nineteenth-century literary fascination with human corporeality and embodiment.
Recommended reading list:
Please obtain and read the following novels (editions recommended below):
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 2nd Norton Critical Edition, Norton & Company, 2012.
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. Oxford World’s Classics, 2012.
Further shorter texts will be made available at the beginning of the semester.
Additional information:
Any additional material will be made available on Moodle: https://lms.uni-mainz.de.
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