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The aim of this course is for students to gain insights into Victorian literature and familiarise with developments and processes shaping the period.

The Victorians are both very strange and very familiar: simultaneously modern and traditional, democratic and elitist, innovative and conservative. They lived in a period of immense change, marked by internal conflicts and contradictions. Women and the working classes were fighting for improved rights and representation. Mechanised industry and imperial expansion created unprecedented wealth, but also provoked profound anxieties and trenchant criticism. Enthusiasm for scientific discoveries and new technologies clashed with nostalgic longing for the medieval past. In this course, we will read a selection of Victorian novels – to explore the above themes, along with: print culture; the country and the city; class, industrialisation and social mobility; women’s writing; gender and sexuality; the relationship between notions of scientific ‘truth’ and religious ‘faith’; education; ideas of nationality, and race; late-Victorian Gothic; and imperialism.

lecture, group discussions, presentations

regular attendance, class participation, presentation, term paper

Primary texts:

• Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)
• Bram Stoker, Dracula (1897)
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (1851-3)
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)

• Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

BA 2015: positive Beurteilung des Pflichtmoduls 10

Lehramtsstudium BA 2015: positive Beurteilung des Pflichtmoduls 13

Aufgrund der substanziell unterschiedlichen Zuteilung von ECTS-AP im Studienplan Lehramtsstudium Englisch und der Curricula BA/MA Anglistik und Amerikanistik ergeben sich für diese Lehrveranstaltung unterschiedliche Anforderungen. Informationen hierzu erhalten Sie bei Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung durch die Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin.