Imaginging and Re-Imagining the Community: The Development of American Literature and Culture during the Nineteenth Century - Einzelansicht

Registration Period: 19.02.-04.03.2018 (WUSEL)

This lecture course will provide an overview of major developments in American literature from the 1820s to the late 19th century. We will discuss genres such as the historical novel, domestic fiction, and the slave narrative; calls for cultural independence from Europe in the context of American transcendentalism and the American Renaissance; the poetry of William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman; and the development of local color fiction and literary realism in the later 19th century. Among the authors included will be Catharine Maria Sedgwick, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harrriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Henry James. Literary texts and developments will be situated within larger cultural contexts, including visual cultures, westward expansion, slavery, the literary marketplace, and nineteenth-century discourses about gender, race, and class.

Moodle password: imaginingSoSe18

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2 LP: wahlweise Portfolio oder Klausur

3 LP: 1. wahlweise Portfolio oder Klausur; und 2. 10 Min. mündliche Prüfung

4 LP: 1. wahlweise Portfolio oder Klausur; und 2. 15 Min. mündliche Prüfung

LPO 2003: C 2 a, c

Kombi-BA: CII, CIII a, c

MA A/A, AVL, MEd