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Lecture: 3.02.971 S The English Novel and the Global Imagination, 1680 - 1730
Semester:
Winter term
2025
3.02.971 S The English Novel and the Global Imagination, 1680 - 1730 -
Event date(s) | room
- Mittwoch, 15.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 22.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 29.10.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 5.11.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 12.11.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 19.11.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 26.11.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 3.12.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 10.12.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 17.12.2025 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 7.1.2026 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 14.1.2026 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 21.1.2026 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
- Mittwoch, 28.1.2026 10:00 - 12:00 | V02 0-002
Description
Around 1700, the United Kingdom undertook to form itself into a nation; English fiction began to develop the forms that would become part of the long-established canons of the English novel; and while Britain was by no means as yet an 'Empire', a global British presence was beginning to become perceptible. Late seventeenth and early eighteenth century English fiction is also affected and informed by this global imagination, and in very different ways. Our seminar will examine three outstanding and very different examples from this period:
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688),
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719), and
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726/28).
Students should purchase the following editions, which are the editions we will use in the seminar:
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Rover, and other Works. Ed. Janet Todd. Penguin Classics, 1993.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Tom Keymer. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Ed. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
Credit for ang971 and 972 is based on an oral input and a shorter term paper (Referat mit Ausarbeitung) (6 KP or 9 KP respectively)
Credit for ang973, for students who are doing the MA English Studies, requires an additional project (3KP)
Students with other aims in this course please consult me individually.
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688),
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719), and
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726/28).
Students should purchase the following editions, which are the editions we will use in the seminar:
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Rover, and other Works. Ed. Janet Todd. Penguin Classics, 1993.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Tom Keymer. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels. Ed. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.
Credit for ang971 and 972 is based on an oral input and a shorter term paper (Referat mit Ausarbeitung) (6 KP or 9 KP respectively)
Credit for ang973, for students who are doing the MA English Studies, requires an additional project (3KP)
Students with other aims in this course please consult me individually.
lecturer
Study fields
- Anglistik
SWS
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Lehrsprache
englisch