ANGLISTIK/AMERIKANISTIK

Kolloquium für Doktorand/inn/en (Kolloquium)
1 SWS Wochenend-Blockveranstaltung: Ort u. Zeit n.V. Hartmut Lutz
This colloquium is for doctoral candidates writing their dissertations with Prof. Lutz as their
supervisor.
ENGLISCHE LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT UND CULTURAL STUDIES GB
The Gentleman and the Angel in the House: Gender and Victorian Literature (Seminar)
4002053
2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Mo 16-18 R 23 Andrew Mills
Course description: see ‘Grundstudium’
maximum participants: 30
Between Fact, Fiction, and Factory: the Victorian Condition of England Novel (Seminar)
4002046
2 SWS ab 3. Sem. Di 12-14 R 34 Mascha Gemmeke Hansen
Course description: see ‘Grundstudium’
maximum participants: 35
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Aufklärung und Kritik im England und Deutschland des
18. Jahrhunderts (Seminar) 4002047
2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Di 14-16 R 24 Jürgen Klein & Michael Astroh
maximum participants: 20
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones (Seminar) 4002049
2 SWS ab 2. Sem. Di 16-18 R 34 James Fanning
Course description: see ‘Grundstudium’
maximum participants: 30
“We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe!”: William Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy
(1-3 Henry VI, Richard III) (Hauptseminar) 4002082
2 SWS ab 5. Sem. Di 18-20 R 21 Jürgen Klein
In his tetralogy Shakespeare gives us a fictional representation of the devastating period of the
English Wars of the Roses. The chaos in the kingdom culminated in Henry VI’s reign, when
the ambitious and Machiavellian Richard of Gloucester’s sequences of crimes and murders
gained the throne for him as King Richard III. Richard’s reign comes to its end in the Battle of
Bosworth (1485), won by his adversary Henry Tudor, the later Henry VII and the first
monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
Texts: Arden Shakespeare. Third Series.
maximum participants: 20
An Indian Dream: Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children (Hauptseminar) 4002083
2 SWS ab 5. Sem. Mi 10-12 R 21 Jürgen Klein
Salman Rushdie was born in 1947, the year in which India gained independence after
Gandhi’s and Nehru’s long struggle to liberate the nation from the British Raj. In this novel
he deals with a rising generation of Indians, including a group born during the very night of
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