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Urban Walking in Victorian and Modernist Literature (AE_PSUWVL)- Lecturer
- Sandra Dinter
- Details
- Proseminar
2 cred.h, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 14:15 - 15:45, A 603 (Bismarckstr. 1)
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Proseminar gehört zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Culture)
BA English and American Studies: Zwischenmodul II (Literature)
Voraussetzungen für den Besuch:
Erfolgreicher Abschluss der GOP
In der Regel: Erfolgreicher Abschluss des Zwischenmoduls I (Thematisches Kombinationsmodul)
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit
- Contents
- Animating alleys, squares and parks, pedestrians have always been an integral part of urban life. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the period that this seminar focuses on, ragpickers, prostitutes, opium addicts, flâneurs and suffragettes were among the vibrant pedestrian crowds in London, and they all walked its streets according to their own agenda. While some pedestrians respected the boundaries determined by their class, gender and race, others were eager to subvert or even to challenge such norms. As new modes of public transport became available, the status of walking changed significantly around the turn of the century. In this seminar, we will examine different literary representations and transformations of pedestrian culture in Victorian and Modernist literature. Beginning with theoretical and historical perspectives on the subject, we will then move on to Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821), Charles Dickens’s “Night Walks” (1861), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1923) and other literary works. All shorter texts will be made available online at the beginning of the semester.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 19.3.2018, 19:00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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