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Medicine, Health and Disease in British Literature and Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century (AE_HSHealth)- Lecturer
- Dr. Sandra Dinter
- Details
- Hauptseminar
Online
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Zeit: Wed 14:15 - 15:45
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- 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 (2-3pages, 20%)) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell (Anglistik als Kernfach): Modul 9 Aufbaumodul
Please note that because of the COVID-19 pandemic 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.
- Contents
- The long nineteenth century, the period between the French Revolution and the beginning of the First World War, witnessed an astonishing number of medical innovations in Britain, e.g. the professionalisation of medical training, the introduction of antiseptic surgery and inhalation anaesthetsia, and various sanitary reforms. New diseases and forms of medical treatment were discovered. Nevertheless, the population still suffered from various public health crises (e.g. various typhus and cholera epidemics and finally the Spanish flu pandemic in the late 1910s) as well as uncurable diseases like tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer.
In this seminar, we will examine how medicine, disease, and health were represented in narrative fiction, poetry, life writing, journalism, and visual culture of the Romantic, Victorian, and Edwardian periods in Britain, paying particular attention to the cultural meanings and implications of specific diseases, cures, and medical expertise. After a historical survey of the most important medical transformations of the long nineteenth century, we will explore the field of the medical humanities and cultural theories of medicine and illness by Michel Foucault and Susan Sontag. The subsequent sessions of the seminar will then be devoted to the analysis and discussion of our primary texts, among them Frances Burney's letters about her mastectomy, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848), excerpts from Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), and Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1911).
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 15
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 1.3.2021, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 17.4.2021, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2021:
- Anglistik, Modul B (M 4)
- 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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