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!bgcolor=#FFFF80|Ich werde Mittwoch Abend in Halle einen Vortrag halten [http://www.izea.uni-halle.de/veranst.htm link], und ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher, wie meine Rückkehr bis Donnerstag Mittag klappt - 6:07 gibt's einen durchgehenden Zug nach Oldenburg. Jenna sagte zu, Euch an dieser Stelle Mittwoch Abend/Donnerstag Morgen eine Notiz zu hinterlassen, wenn ich Ihr eine SMS zukommen lasse (das ist nicht ganz die zeit, in der ich selbst irgenwo in Halle ans Netz kommen werde... Meinen Dank an Sie und Euch für Flexibilität falls wir das kurzfristig ausfallen lassen. Gruß, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 15:07, 1 November 2007 (CET)
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Ich werde Mittwoch Abend in Halle einen Vortrag halten link, und ich bin mir nicht ganz sicher, wie meine Rückkehr bis Donnerstag Mittag klappt - 6:07 gibt's einen durchgehenden Zug nach Oldenburg. Jenna sagte zu, Euch an dieser Stelle Mittwoch Abend/Donnerstag Morgen eine Notiz zu hinterlassen, wenn ich Ihr eine SMS zukommen lasse (das ist nicht ganz die zeit, in der ich selbst irgenwo in Halle ans Netz kommen werde... Meinen Dank an Sie und Euch für Flexibilität falls wir das kurzfristig ausfallen lassen. Gruß, --Olaf Simons 15:07, 1 November 2007 (CET)

The twentieth century brought forth a wave of books and movies dealing with the future. "Science fiction" reads the label that detects the sciences as the primary source of inspiration shaping this production.

The seminar will go back to early fictions of times to come. The sciences, this will be an immediate result, did not motivate the early authors. Samuel Madden, writing in 1733, could hardly imagine a future marked by entirely different technologies. New mental states are of interest to Sebastien Mercier, the author of the 1770s. A gloomy catastrophe becomes the scenario of Mary Shelley's Last Man in 1828. Late 19th century authors - like Edward Bellamy and H. G. Wells - offer the futures we have become used to.

We will read the 18th- and 19th-century titles mentioned with an interest in the cultures they reflect. The future - this will be one of the premises of this seminar - is no natural thing to consider. It is rather a ground of debate developing its own logic with the histories we came to write.

Seminar work will focus on the texts listed bellow. How do these titles compare with 20th-century science fiction? How far are they influenced by ideas of (technological) progress? To what extend did they need comparable histories of the past to become plausible? How do other considerations of the future from astrology to religion compare to the new fictional production developing with these texts?

Oct 25 2007: Brainstorming

How did the future - how did the past develop - a broad survey. Encouragement: Use the seminar to develop research projects of your own interest - research projects to be dealt with with the help of EEBO, ECCO, and MOME. The letter databases allow word searches.

Nov 1, 2007: Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the 20th Century (1733)

  • William Salmon, The London almanack for the year of our Lord 1694 (1694). EEBO
Read chapter XIII, the "Explanation of the Hieroglyphs". How is the interest in the future structured? What is more and what is less interesting?
  • Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). ECCO
Take a look through title page and dedication, read the preface and the first letter. You may either read the ECCO online edition or download the pdf I'll put on our server. I shall try to provide a text edition in cooperation with the Druckzentrum.

Nov 8, 2007: Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the 20th Century (1733)

We will split Madden's book into as many parts as we are participants and piece it together. Get an awareness of where this future differs from the world of 1733.

Nov 15, 2007: Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the 20th Century (1733)

Nov 22, 2007: Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred (1771)

  • Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred. [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper (London: G. Robinson, 1772). ECCO


Nov 29, 2007: Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred (1771)

Dec 6, 2007: Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred (1771)

Dec 13, 2007: Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1828)

Dec 20, 2007: Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1828)

Jan 10, 2007: Mary Shelley, The Last Man (1828)

Jan 17, 2008: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (1888)

Jan 24, 2008: Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887 (1888)

Jan 31, 2008: H. G. Wells, Time Machine (1895)

Feb 6, 2008: H. G. Wells, Time Machine (1895)

Texts

  • Samuel Madden. Memoirs of the 20th cenury. London, 1731. ECCO
  • Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Memoirs of the year two thousand five hundred. [1771] translated from the French by W. Hooper (London: G. Robinson, 1772). ECCO
  • Mary Shelley. The Last Man [1828]. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Morton D. Paley. Oxford: OUP, 1998.
  • Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward from 2000 to 1887. 1888.
  • H. G. Wells. Time Machine. 1895.

Literature

On Samuel Madden

  • identified as "Chaplain in Ordinary" at court: Chamberlayne, John. Magnæ Britanniæ notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain; ... By John Chamberlayne, ... The thirty-first edition of the south part, called England; and the tenth of the north part, called Scotland. .. In two parts. .. London, 1735. p.118. ECCO
  • Baker, David Erskine. Biographia dramatica, or, a companion to the playhouse: ... By David Erskine Baker, Esq. A new edition: carefully corrected; .. and continued from 1764 to 1782. London, 1782, p.294. ECCO
  • Burdy, Samuel, The life of the late Rev. Philip Skelton, with some curious anecdotes (Dublin, 1792) ECCO pp 28, 32-41, 121
  • Jones, Stephen. A new biographical dictionary: ... The second edition, corrected: with considerable additions and improvements. London, 1796. ECCO
  • A new and general biographical dictionary: containing an historical, critical, ... London, 1795. 497pp. Vol. 7 of 8 ECCO
  • Library Ireland accessed 1 Nov 2007
  • Rosemary Richey, ‘Madden, Samuel Molyneux (1686–1765)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 1 Nov 2007

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