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Popular Victorian Tales of Mystery, Crime and Detection (and Modern Film Adaptations) (AE_HSPVIT)- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Doris Feldmann
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
Time and place: Thu 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (301) Literature/Culture (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) MA English Studies: Core Module: Culture (module 4031) MA English Studies: Core Module: Literature (module 4051) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Culture (module 8350) MA English Studies: Master Module II: Literature (module 8360) MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4
Scheinerwerb: Referat + Hausarbeit - Contents
- The aim of this seminar is to explore forms of Victorian fiction which remain among the most popular today: ghost stories, gothic fiction, detective novels and fairy tales. We will place individual texts in their literary context within the historical development of narrative genres (and overlaps between subgenres, e.g. detective fiction and urban gothic) and within contemporary cultural discourses (e.g. technological and scientific ‘progress’, criminology, ‘degeneration’, ‘deviant’ sexualities and ‘Britishness’). We will also examine how the texts have been recreated in modern film and transformed into popular myths.
It is essential that all students read and reflect upon the texts before each class. All participants should enrol for a short oral presentation before the beginning of term (see the list in our library, C 603); all B.A. and M.A. students are expected to participate in the Independent Study Group. A class schedule and a bibliography will be made available online.
- Recommended literature
- Charles Dickens, "The Signalman"; Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of (the) Four; Oscar Wilde, "The Happy Prince".
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Assigned lectures
- US: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten - Blockseminar -
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Lecturer: Maja Jäckle, M.A.
Time and place: single appointment on 11.4.2018, single appointment on 25.4.2018, single appointment on 9.5.2018, single appointment on 23.5.2018, single appointment on 6.6.2018, single appointment on 20.6.2018, single appointment on 4.7.2018, single appointment on 11.7.2018 16:15 - 17:45, C 601
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Anglistik, Modul A (M 4)
- Core Module Culture (Core Cult)
- Core Module Literature (Core Lit)
- Master Module II: Culture (Master II: Cult)
- Master Module II: Literature (Master II: Lit)
- Department: Chair of English Literature and Culture (Prof. Dr. Feldmann)
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