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Seminar
WiSe 13/14: S-Introduction to Cultural Studies II: Cultures of Sympathy
Wolfram Keller
Comments
Victorian literature is characterized by what one critic refers to as an "insistent celebration of sympathy." The aim of this course is to study the many "kinds" of sympathy fostered, elicited, or desired in political and aesthetic discourses. At the beginning of the semester, we will briefly survey the origins and eighteenth-century transformations of sympathy, before we will look briefly into the role of sympathy in Victorian social policy, the visual arts, and poetry. Finally, we will read three realist novels in order to inquire further into the cognitive and poetological "work" of sympathy. The novels we will discuss are: Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook (1839), Margaret Oliphant's Miss Majoribanks (1866), and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872). Students are required to have finished reading George Eliot's Middlemarch (ed. Rosemary Ashton [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994]) by the beginning of the semester. A detailed syllabus and a reading list will be available at the end of September. Students interested in this seminar should contact me by email wolfram.keller@fu-berlin.de by 1 October 2013. close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2013-10-15 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-10-22 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-10-29 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-05 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-12 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-19 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-11-26 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-03 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-10 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2013-12-17 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-07 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-14 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-21 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-01-28 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-02-04 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2014-02-11 14:00 - 16:00