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VL 19th Century American Literature and Culture (AE_VL19AM) [Import]- Lecturer
- Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
- Details
- Vorlesung
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Deutsch
Time and place: Tue 10:00 - 12:00, KH 1.020
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- This course is eligible as follows:
Master North American Studies: Literature and Culture: Grundlagenmodul/Basic Module Cultural Studies 1 Master The Americas/Las Américas: Grundlagenmodul 1 BA English and American Studies (neu): Hauptmodul B Culture Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Optionsmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
- Contents
- This lecture offers a survey of the ‘long’ 19th century dating from the end of the Revolutionary War to the eve of World War I. We will look at cultural and literary phenomena alongside historical, political and economic developments in an interdisciplinary American Studies-mode, and thus we will analyze a wide variety of materials, including literature, political pamphlets, essays, letters, and journals as well as paintings and photography. The 19th century is connected to various literary movements in the United States - ranging from romanticist transcendentalism to realist regionalism –, to important cultural phenomena (such as the early history of American popular culture in vaudeville and minstrelsy) as well as to developments in social and intellectual history. Important themes in public discourses are nation-building and national identity, religion, nature, and the frontier as well as slavery and, of course, war. After the American Civil War, realism supersedes romanticism as a dominant mode in American literature. Urbanization, industrialization and immigration are among the issues negotiated in realist writings.
Both, romanticism and realism, have been the subject of controversy in their times and, thus, we will also be concerned with the intellectual debates surrounding both movements, then and now.
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Estudios latinoamericanos (AM6c)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Überblicksmodul (Master Modul 6)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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