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| Semester | spring semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Nadine Böhm-Schnitker (nadine.boehm-schnitker@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | This online lecture will explore the popular culture of the Victorian age as well as its current appropriations in contemporary or neo-Victorian literature and culture. We will delve into genres such as melodrama (e.g. Dion Boucicault), detective fiction (e.g. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and particularly sensation fiction (e.g. Wilkie Collins) with its shocking and/or thrilling details about bigamy, fraud and possibly even murder. We will tackle questions of the establishment of 'high' vs. 'popular' culture in the critical discourse of the period together with questions of media technology that spawn debates about, for instance, mass and celebrity culture. In the neo-Victorian context, we will investigate the legacy of the Victorian age analysing current re-writings of Victorian genres (e.g. neo-sensation fiction by Sarah Waters), the celebrity status of neo-Victoria and today's responses to topics such as the Great Irish Famine, the role of opium or gender hierarchies. |
| Learning objectives | Students will become acquainted with central popular texts and cultural practices of the Victorian age as well as with the debate about popular culture in the period's emerging literary criticism. They will learn about current recyclings of Victorian texts and cultural practices in a neo-Victorian context and about central mechanisms in the construction of cultural memory. |
| Bibliography | The lecture slides will be available on ADAM. For preliminary reading you may consult standard literary histories on the Victorian Age and Marie-Luise Kohlke's introduction to Neo-Victorian Studies (1.1, 2008, 1-18) available at http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | None |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, optional |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Thursday | 10.15-12.00 | - Online Präsenz - |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 04.03.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 11.03.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 18.03.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 25.03.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 01.04.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Ostern |
| Thursday 08.04.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 15.04.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 22.04.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 29.04.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 06.05.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 13.05.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | Auffahrt |
| Thursday 20.05.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 27.05.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Thursday 03.06.2021 | 10.15-12.00 | --, -- |
| Modules |
Modul: Advanced Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree program: Ancient Civilizations) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft BA (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Latin Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Nordic Philology) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: French Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Slavic Studies) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Spanish Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: Italian Language and Literature) Modul: Interphilologie: Literaturwissenschaft MA (Master's degree subject: German Literature) Modul: Introduction to Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Bachelor's degree subject: English) Modul: Literaturgeschichte (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) |
| Assessment format | record of achievement |
| Assessment details | Written assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | one repetition, repetition counts |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |