19th Century Popular Culture in Britain and the US- Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann, Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, C 301
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Zugehörigkeit zu den Modulen
· BA English and American Studies (neu): Hauptmodul A. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) – HA
· Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) – HA (80 %)
· MA English Studies: Teilbereichsmodul Literature (503) – HA (40501) bzw. Core Module - HA (40511)
· MA English Studies: Teilbereichsmodul Culture (501) – HA (40301) bzw. Core Module - HA (40311)
· MA Literaturstudien – interdisziplinär: Modul 4
· MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature: Modul 4,5,7 oder 8
· MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4
- Contents
- This seminar will explore 19th century popular culture in a transatlantic perspective. We will look at the ways in which popular culture emerges historically as a form of mass entertainment and mass consumption in the context – and as a consequence – of urbanization and industrialization in both, Britain and the US. In a cultural studies-framework, studies of contemporary and 20th century popular culture have long been dominant. We would like to shift this perspective to include a diachronic account of early forms of popular culture and their specificity in time and place. How can we address 19th century popular culture in terms of tradition and novelty, of commodification, ideology and cultural work? What is the role of race, gender, class, and national identity in 19th century popular culture-phenomena? How does a focus on the popular reconfigure our view of the 19th century?
The phenomena we will discuss in more detail in this seminar include texts, visual culture, and cultural practices: melodrama and popular fiction, the world exhibitions in London (Crystal Palace, 1851) and Chicago (Columbian Fair, 1893), magazine culture and household manuals, vaudeville and black-face minstrelsy, 'slumming' and photography.
- Recommended literature
- Material for this class will be made available on studon. All participants are expected to have read Douglas Jerrold's The Rent Day (google books) and Hariet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin by the beginning of the semester.
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2013:
- Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Modul A
- Department: Chair of English Literature (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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