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HS The Custom of the Country – Gender, Economy and Affect in the US American Novel of Manners (AE_HSCC)
- Dozent/in
- PD Dr. Karin Höpker
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mo 16:15 - 17:45, KH 0.023
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- The seminar will be conducted in a remote learning format. All students registered for this class on meincampus will be contacted and automatically signed up for the class on StudOn:
https://www.studon.fau.de/crs2874886.html
Modulzugehörigkeit
L-GYM Englisch: Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture mit begleitender Independent Study Group
MA North American Studies: Module 4, 5, 7 und 8
MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4
MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs
MA Literaturstudien: Modul D (M 4)
- Inhalt
- Often regarded a genre preoccupied with the pursuits of the “leisure class,” the novel of manners participates in the poetic experiment of fiction at the end of the 19th century.
Writers like Henry James and Edith Wharton explore the novel as a form of fictional ethnography that studies gendered experiences of courtship and marriage, and how narratives of individual affect encode social transactions and economic practices. Practices of social interaction are closely regulated based on class privilege, social and economic status, and especially female protagonists are often painfully aware of the power of gossip and a precariousness of reputation that requires careful management.
We will read and discuss narrative texts, contemporaneous theories of fiction as parts of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899).
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please acquire paper copies of the following texts and read in advance: Henry James Daisy Miller: A Study and Portrait of a Lady; Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
Additional texts will be made available on StudOn.
Please note that this class has a “no screen”-policy and that you will thus need to acquire paper editions!
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
www: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs2874886.html Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich. Die Anmeldung erfolgt von Montag, 10.2.2020, 19.00 Uhr bis Samstag, 18.4.2020, 22:00 Uhr über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2020:
- Amerikanistik, Modul D (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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