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Graduate Course
SoSe 19: The Victorian Novel
Anne Enderwitz
Comments
The seminar focuses on the English novel in the nineteenth century. The key aim is to explore this literary form in its heterogeneity, but the course also wants to review the Victorian novel as a literary and social medium that addresses and negotiates economic, political and cultural problems of its time. To provide a link to the long eighteenth century, the seminar begins with Jane Austens parody of the Gothic novel, Northanger Abbey. It ends with Thomas Hardy‘s strikingly modern anti-Bildungsroman Jude the Obscure. In between we will read Elizabeth Gaskell‘s North and South, Charlotte Brontë‘s Jane Eyre and Wilkie Collins‘ The Woman in White. Victorian novels tend to be quite long; please use the spring break to get a head-start on the reading. close
Suggested reading
I suggest that you begin with Northanger Abbey (Penguin Classics, 2003) and The Woman in White (Penguin Classics, 2003).
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Thu, 2019-04-11 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-04-18 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-04-25 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-05-02 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-05-09 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-05-16 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-05-23 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-06-06 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-06-13 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-06-20 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-06-27 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-07-04 14:00 - 16:00
Thu, 2019-07-11 14:00 - 16:00