SoSe 17: HS-Negotiating Gender: Affect and Emotion in Early Modernity
Sabine Schülting
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This seminar will explore the relevance of the recent interest in affect and the emotions for the study of early modern culture and literature. The most basic question will be if and how passions and feelings are historically specific, or, more explicitly, how they have been theorised and represented about 400 years ago, in a period of massive cultural and social changes. We will discuss medical and philosophical approaches to the ‘passions’, the relevance of emotions for notions of subjectivity, the construction of emotional communities, and the representation and performance of emotions in the literature and on the stages of early modern England. In this context, we will also look at audience responses, the complex relationships between language and emotions, as well as the relevance of genre. Our readings will include essays, treatises, poetry, and drama.
Students should combine this course with the course 17390, which will offer an introduction to contemporary affect theories.
Texts: Students should purchase William Shakespeare’s Othello (ed. by Michael Neill, Oxford World’s Classics) and King Lear (ed. by R. A. Foakes, Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series), Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II(ed. by Martin Wiggins and Robert Lindsey, New Mermaids), and Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! (ed. by C. G. Petter, New Mermaids). Shorter texts will be made available on Blackboard.
Assessmentwill be on the basis of regular attendance, active participation (including e.g. short presentations and response papers), and the submission of an essay of c. 7500 words.
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