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Departments >> Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology >> Department Anglistik/Amerikanistik und Romanistik >> Department of English and American Studies >> Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley) >>
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VL American Literary and Cultural History, 19th Century- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Ulf Schulenberg
- Details
- Vorlesung
2 cred.h
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 8:15 - 9:45, KH 1.016
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Die VL kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Optionsmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Hauptmodul B" Literature oder Culture
MA North American Studies
Mastermodul 6: "Überblicksmodul": VL plus Independent Study
Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- In the nineteenth century, the multilayered complexity of American literature became increasingly obvious. In his influential Studies in Classic American Literature, D.H. Lawrence even advanced the argument that the real beginning of American literature was James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking novels. Furthermore, many literary scholars contend that the American Renaissance, with authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson, still ought to be regarded as the most distinguished period of American literature. This lecture course will offer a broad overview of nineteenth-century American literature. However, it will go further by discussing American literature in its cultural context. We will focus on complex terms such as “the American romance” and “regionalism,” as well as on period terms like “Romanticism,” “realism,” and “naturalism.” Furthermore, we will analyze American literature and culture in a transnational perspective, seeking to elucidate to what degree the nineteenth century can already be termed modern.
- Recommended literature
- Jonathan Arac, The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2005.
Richard Brodhead, Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Richard Gray, A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
- Additional information
- Expected participants: 40
Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2016/2017:
- Überblicksmodul (Master Modul 6)
- Startsemester SS 2017:
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Überblicksmodul (Master Modul 6)
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