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SoSe 21: A Revolutionary Culture: Sources of America's Political Imaginary

Frank Kelleter

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This lecture course deals with sources of the U.S. political imaginary, focusing on documents, debates, and artifacts from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Topics include the emergence and consolidation of a “republican” elite during and after the American Revolution, the cultural work of The Federalist, the French Revolution in America, the parallel appearance of political parties and a national political press, the Haitian Revolution and racial capitalism, anti-blackness and slavery, settler colonialism and the impact of the American Revolution on Indigenous peoples, early trans-Atlantic feminism, the advent of the novel and its early genres (sentimental, Gothic, historical) as well as other issues. The lecture course serves as “Vorlesung” of Culture-Module A (Amerikanische Ideengeschichte und Theorien amerikanischer Kultur) in the M.A. program. Registration: All participants need to be registered via Blackboard and Campus Management by the first session. If you cannot register online, please contact Prof. Kelleter before the beginning of the term. Requirements and Online Organization: See Syllabus and Course Description in the “Teaching” section of my JFKI website or on Blackboard (go to “Kursmaterial”; you may have to click on “open Syllabus here” to download it; if this doesn’t work, try a different browser: students have reported problems with the Chrome browser). All communication about and within this class will be channeled through the course’s Blackboard site; please make sure you’re registered there. First session: April 13. ----- (Online Course – Lecture Uploads: Tuesdays) close

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14 Class schedule

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Tue, 16:00 - 18:00 14 Class schedule

Tue, 2021-04-13 16:00 - 18:00

Lecturers:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Frank Kelleter