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schedules for 2010. Please note that if you want to participate in the excursion you must be a member of the seminar. The first meeting (mandatory for excursion members) will be 26 January 2010, 14-15h at my office. maximum participants: 15 Imagining the Nation: From the British Empire to Multicultural Britain (Seminar) 4002051 2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Mi 16-18 R 34 Andrew Mills During the latter part of the 19th Century and especially after 1876, when Queen Victoria was made Empress of India, the British Empire was fundamental to how British people understood themselves as a nation. By the end the 1950’s the British Empire was all but gone as an effective political force. How was Britain to understand itself after the end of the Empire? In many ways this question has still not been answered fully. The UK is a part of the EU, yet not always comfortable with understanding itself as European. Multiculturalism is official government policy and increasingly this has become the model for how the nation understands itself, yet racial tensions are rife in the country. Using a range of original and academic texts we will look at these different images of the nation, and how they contribute to and elucidate current cultural and social tensions in the UK. Please ask me during the semester break for the reading list if you wish to get started with the reading. maximum participants: 30 Victorian Poetry (Proseminar) 4002052 2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Mi 18-20 R 23 Conny Loder In this seminar we will explore Victorian poetry at its best. This exploration will take us to Alfred Tennyson, Emily Jane Brontë, William Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll and many other Victorian poets. Against the background of Darwin’s theory of evolution, the Crimean War, Nietzsche’s nihilism and the awakening of the Pre-Raphaelites, the works of these poets became mirrors of their society. As a basis for the seminar, we will use Christopher Ricks (ed.), Victorian Verse, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990. Seminar participants are requested to have a copy of this anthology. maximum participants: 25 Introduction to Postcolonialism (Seminar) 4002044 2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Do 14-16 R 34 Andrew Mills Although there are many ways of defining the term, in this class we’ll look at postcolonialism both as a loosely connected set of novels about life in former colonies of Britain, and as a way of re-reading canonical texts and traditions of British literature and culture. To this end we’ll look at some of the major novels and theoretical statements by postcolonial writers and thinkers. If you wish to start reading during the semester break, please buy the following editions of the novels. For the first class, I will expect you will have and have read Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Novels: Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe. Oxford’s World Classics Edition (ISBN-10: 0192833421) Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart. Penguin Red Classics Edition (ISBN-10: 0141023384) Alice Walker. The Color Purple. Phoenix House Edition (ISBN-10: 0753818922) Beatrice Culleton Monsionier, In Search of April Raintree: Critical Edition, Portage and Main Press (ISBN-10: 1894110439) maximum participants: 30 18
The Industrial Revolution and British Culture 1750–1850 (Seminar) 4002054 2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Do 16-18 R 34 James Fanning In this seminar we shall first discuss the still controversial question of why the world’s industrial revolution began in England in the 18 th century. Then we shall consider some of the prominent inventions and developments, seeing how they interacted with other phenomena of the period, such as the consolidation of British power in India, the Napoleonic wars, Parliamentary reform and much more. We shall then look at how the industrial revolution affected the everyday lives of the people and their culture (e.g. food, fashions, housing and architecture, health, politics, literature, painting). You should buy and read Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South (1855). Other texts for discussion in class will be provided in a reader available from Digital Print Copy (Loefflerstr./Kuhstr.) by the middle of March. Recommended introductory reading: Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, CUP 2009 Hilton, Boyd. A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846, Oxford: Clarendon 2006 (general historical background, not specifically on industrialization) Rolt, L.T.C. Victorian Engineering, Harmondsworth: Penguin 1 1970; Stroud: Sutton 2 2007 Uglow, Jenny. The Lunar Men: The friends who made the future, 1730–1810, London: Faber 2002 (collective biography of inventors and industrialists) maximum participants: 30 ‘Under Western Eyes’: Eastern Europe and Russia in British Fiction (Seminar) 4002055 2 SWS ab 3. Sem. Blockseminar 6.-9.4.10, 16-21, R 21 Michael Szczekalla The implosion of the Soviet Union and its aftermath has attracted a number of British writers of fiction. The approaching centenary of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (1911) affords the occasion to show how much at least some of these contemporary authors are still indebted to the Polish émigré. “My eyes, in the Conradian sense, have stopped being Western and started being Eastern,” the unamiable octogenarian narrator of Martin Amis’s House of Meetings (2006) tells his readers. Like Julian Barnes’s The Porcupine (1991), Tibor Fischer’s Under The Frog (1992), Carl Tighe’s Burning Worm (2001), Nicholas Shakespeare’s Snowleg (2004), or even Ian McEwan’s somewhat earlier The Innocent (1990), it allows us to study what happens when cultural memory crosses national boundaries. These novels also exhibit particularly intriguing forms of genre crossing. Their generic affiliations range from tragedy (Amis and Barnes) via comedy (Fischer) and romance (Shakespeare) to spy fiction (McEwan) and fictional memoir (Amis, Tighe). The seminar will try to assess their contribution to the transformation of cultural memory by focussing on the dialectics of blindness and insight that results from a foreign perspective. Texts: Students should have read Under Western Eyes (Penguin), House of Meetings (Vintage), and, if possible, also one of the other novels by the beginning of the first meeting. maximum participants: 20 19
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The Industrial Revolution and British Culture 1750–1850 (Seminar) 4002054<br />
2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Do 16-18 R 34 James Fanning<br />
In this seminar we shall first discuss the still controversial question of why the world’s<br />
industrial revolution began in England in the 18 th century. Then we shall consider some of the<br />
prominent inventions and developments, seeing how they interacted with other phenomena of<br />
the period, such as the consolidation of British power in India, the Napoleonic wars,<br />
Parliamentary reform and much more. We shall then look at how the industrial revolution<br />
affected the everyday lives of the people and their culture (e.g. food, fashions, housing and<br />
architecture, health, politics, literature, painting).<br />
You should buy and read Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel North and South (1855). Other texts for<br />
discussion in class will be provided in a reader available from Digital Print Copy<br />
(Loefflerstr./Kuhstr.) by the middle of March.<br />
Recommended introductory reading:<br />
Allen, Robert C. The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, CUP 2009<br />
Hilton, Boyd. A Mad, Bad and Dangerous People? England 1783–1846, Oxford: Clarendon<br />
2006 (general historical background, not specifically on industrialization)<br />
Rolt, L.T.C. Victorian Engineering, Harmondsworth: Penguin 1 1970; Stroud: Sutton 2 2007<br />
Uglow, Jenny. The Lunar Men: The friends who made the future, 1730–1810, London: Faber<br />
2002 (collective biography of inventors and industrialists)<br />
maximum participants: 30<br />
‘Under Western Eyes’: Eastern Europe and Russia in British Fiction (Seminar) 4002055<br />
2 SWS ab 3. Sem. Blockseminar 6.-9.4.10, 16-21, R 21 Michael Szczekalla<br />
The implosion of the Soviet Union and its aftermath has attracted a number of British writers<br />
of fiction. The approaching centenary of Joseph Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (1911) affords<br />
the occasion to show how much at least some of these contemporary authors are still indebted<br />
to the Polish émigré. “My eyes, in the Conradian sense, have stopped being Western and<br />
started being Eastern,” the unamiable octogenarian narrator of Martin Amis’s House of<br />
Meetings (2006) tells his readers. Like Julian Barnes’s The Porcupine (1991), Tibor Fischer’s<br />
Under The Frog (1992), Carl Tighe’s Burning Worm (2001), Nicholas Shakespeare’s<br />
Snowleg (2004), or even Ian McEwan’s somewhat earlier The Innocent (1990), it allows us to<br />
study what happens when cultural memory crosses national boundaries. These novels also<br />
exhibit particularly intriguing forms of genre crossing. Their generic affiliations range from<br />
tragedy (Amis and Barnes) via comedy (Fischer) and romance (Shakespeare) to spy fiction<br />
(McEwan) and fictional memoir (Amis, Tighe). The seminar will try to assess their<br />
contribution to the transformation of cultural memory by focussing on the dialectics of<br />
blindness and insight that results from a foreign perspective.<br />
Texts: Students should have read Under Western Eyes (Penguin), House of Meetings<br />
(Vintage), and, if possible, also one of the other novels by the beginning of the first meeting.<br />
maximum participants: 20<br />
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