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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >>
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The Poetics and Politics of 19th Century Literature and Literary Theory- Dozent/in
- Dr. Nadine Böhm
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Zeit und Ort: Mi 18:00 - 19:30, C 301
- Inhalt
- "We have become a novel-reading people", says Anthony Trollope in 1870. The novel's path to literary dominance and the emergence of its readership in the 19th century is often explained by drawing attention to the changes in the publishing industry (rotary steam press, mechanical printing, serialization of novels, growth of circulating libraries etc.), social changes (hightened education and literacy, 'need' to 'represent' the emerging middle classes etc.) and historical upheavals ("condition-of-England" crisis, Crimean war, Indian Mutiny, The Communist Manifesto etc.). Novel writing and reading is thus a highly political procedure and it is worthwhile investigating the effects that were ascribed to the novel by the literary criticism of the time and its manifold overlaps with socio-political discourses. We will delve into the critical theories on realism, "reader-response criticism" and aestheticism (among others) from the mid-19th century to the fin-de-siecle to explore how the 19th century provided the conditions for the emergence of the genre as we (believe to) know it.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Texts:
William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848)
George Eliot, Adam Bede (1859)
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879)
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
Texts of literary criticism will be made available at StudOn.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Anglistik, insbesondere Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
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