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72935-01 - Research seminar: Revisiting the English Country House (4 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2024 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Christiane Schlote (christiane.schlote@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | Asking what attracts novelists to country houses, a tradition ranging from “Pope, Fielding and Austen to Forster, Wodehouse and Waugh”, Blake Morrison (2011) states that it “is the space they afford for gathering a group of diverse characters – servants as well as masters – under one roof, so as to watch how tensions develop, love affairs begin and catastrophes unfold”. Importantly, however, and although the “myth of the country house is seductive”, writers “aren’t obliged to sign up to it; they can also question, satirise and subvert”. In this seminar, we will focus precisely on recent critical textual and cultural engagements with the English country house and heritage tourism, including the National Trust’s own projects exploring and addressing their properties’ links to colonialism and slavery. |
| Learning objectives | Students will be introduced to the history of the genre of country house fiction and to its accompanying discourses of Englishness and national heritage. |
| Bibliography | Students should acquire the following texts: M. H. Eccleston, "The Trust" (2022), and Kazuo Ishiguro, "The Remains of the Day" (1989) Theoretical and additional primary texts will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Admission requirements | For MA and PhD students only |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online, mandatory |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Wednesday | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
Dates
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 18.09.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | fällt krankheitsbedingt aus |
| Wednesday 25.09.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 02.10.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 09.10.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 16.10.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 23.10.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 30.10.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 06.11.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 13.11.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 20.11.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 27.11.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 04.12.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 11.12.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Wednesday 18.12.2024 | 12.15-14.00 | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 105 |
| Modules |
Modul: Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) Modul: Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master's degree program: Literary Studies) Modul: Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master's degree subject: English) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Regular and active participation, reading assignments, oral presentation, optional seminar paper |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |