32210
Graduate Course
SoSe 15: The Puritans and American Studies
Florian Sedlmeier
Comments
The class combines readings of Puritan literature with an examination of the role of early American literature for the rise of American Studies ever since Perry Miller. So, on the one hand, the seminar will explore the theological, historical, ideological, and political background, as well as the conditions of publication and performance that enabled the Puritan writings; and students will become familiar with the various forms of Puritan writing (captivity narrative, historiography, jeremiad, poetry) and their function for imagining both notions of community and the self, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries up until the present day. On the other hand, the course will trace the role of Puritan writing in the process of institutionalizing and reforming American Studies as a field of inquiry, from Perry Miller to Emory Elliott to Sacvan Bercovitch and others. The seminar, then, also offers a chance to learn about some of the central intellectual debates that inform American literary and cultural history. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2015-04-15 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-04-22 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-04-29 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-05-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-05-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-05-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-05-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-06-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-06-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-06-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-06-24 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-07-01 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-07-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2015-07-15 12:00 - 14:00