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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >>
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PS Antebellum (Pseudo)Science and American Literature [Import]- Dozent/in
- Maria Kaspirek, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium
Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mo 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das PS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
L-UF Englisch (neu): "Zwischenmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Elementarmodul Literature) L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Zwischenmodul Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literature)
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Zwischenmodul II Literature" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsseminar) BA American Studies: "Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture - Veranstaltung mit Nordamerika-Bezug"
Das PS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
BA English and American Studies (neu): "Zwischenmodul II Culture" (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul I: Thematisches Kombinationsseminar) BA American Studies: "Zwischenmodul II Economics, Linguistics, History, Geography, Literature/Culture - Veranstaltung mit Nordamerika-Bezug"
- Inhalt
- In the course of the nineteenth century, both "science" and "literature" emerged as approaches for knowing the world. Citizens displayed a huge interest in the new sciences of the body and the mind, and their apparent promise of explaining and bettering the human condition. Especially popular, therefore, were sciences geared toward applicability such as phrenology (reading the skull in order to determine mental faculties and character traits), animal magnetism or mesmerism (manipulating magnetic forces surrounding the body), or hydropathy (the "water-cure"), which are nowadays debunked as "pseudo"-sciences. Literary writers were highly engaged with the new discourse - they commented upon the new sciences, praised or criticized the findings of their scientific contemporaries, both in private and in their own works.
This seminar explores the emergence of (social) science in the antebellum period its popular branches, and its literary representation. As both literature and science engaged in the quest for truth and knowledge, we will ask what the scientist and the artist, science and literature have in common, and what distinguishes them from each other. By juxtaposing scientific and literary texts we will investigate what it meant to write "scientifically". Can we understand both science and literature as conceptualizations of reality? We will examine the influence that popular science had on authors and literary texts - by means of conduction and resistance -, but also challenge this common understanding of the direction of influence: how did literature influence the sciences in turn?
- Empfohlene Literatur
- The material we will be analyzing ranges from texts by authors such as Poe, Melville, Beecher Stowe, and Hawthorne to lesser known writers such as John Neal, and from phrenological manuals, treatises on insanity, and scientific writings on race, to marriage advertisements and hoaxes.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 30
Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt über: CASSY Erlangen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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