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Sensation Fiction (AE_HSSenFi)- Lecturer
- Dr. Sandra Dinter
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 14:15 - 15:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
Das Hauptseminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature/Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) - HA Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) - HA (80%) MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031, exam 40311: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051, exam 40511: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Culture (module 8350, exam 83501: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360, exam 83601: Written assignment (15 pages, 80%) and handout (2-3 pages, 20%)) MA Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell (Anglistik als Kernfach): Modul 9 Aufbaumodul
- Contents
- In this seminar, we will take a closer look at the formulas, theories, contexts, and afterlives of a genre of popular fiction that thrived in Britain in the 1860s and 1870s: sensation fiction. With its racy and melodramatic plots surrounding murder, adultery, insanity, fraud, and other controversial topics that destablised conventional Victorian morality, the sensation novel is often seen as a subversive counterpart to the 'respectable' realist novel that you may have encountered in your previous seminars. We will discuss important precursors of the sensation novel (e.g. the Newgate novel and the Gothic), consider the manifold shifts in the publishing industry that led to the proliferation and distinct marketing of the genre, analyse prototypical and lesser-known examples of sensation fiction, and finally examine its presence in neo-Victorian culture and literature. Among the literary works that we will discuss in the seminar are Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1860) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862). The seminar requires a comparatively heavy reading load - please only join the seminar if you do not mind 'bulky books'.
Please note that this seminar will be taught online only. Most weeks will consist of synchronous sessions on Zoom in combination with some asynchronous learning activities on StudOn.
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase and read the 2003 Penguin Classics edition of Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White [ISBN: 9780141439617 – please acquire this edition and no other!] over the term break and be ready to discuss it as our first primary text.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 24.8.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 7.11.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2020/2021:
- Anglistik, Modul 8 B (M 8)
- Anglistik, Modul 9 B (M 9)
- Core Module Culture (Core Cult)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Master Module II: Culture (Master II: Cult)
- Master Module II: Literature (Master II: Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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