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*'''Course Description''': The beginning of this summer term also marks the publication of Hilary Mantel's ''The Mirror & the Light'', the third part in the ''Wolf Hall'' trilogy. With these bestselling and critically acclaimed titles, two Booker Prize wins and a world-wide fan base, Mantel has been at the centre of (1) a debate linking current Brexit politics with the English Reformation and (2) a resurgence of the historical novel. In this course, we will trace the beginnings and developments of the genre (from ''Waverly'' [1814] to ''Wolf Hall'' [2009]), its reconstructions of historical characters and settings (via a constructivist, New Historicist, postmodernist lense), as well as the scholarly contributions making sense of its appeal (from Lukacs to Borgmeier, Hutcheon, de Groot). Students are required to have read the two main novels and expand their experience with and knowledge of the genre by choosing a third novel (selection below) and studying secondary literature.
  
 
Please, '''buy and read''' the following novels:  
 
Please, '''buy and read''' the following novels:  
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*Waverly
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*Scott, Walter. ''Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since''. [1814] Ed. Claire Lamont. Oxford: OUP, 1998/2008/2015. (9780198716594)
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*Wolf Hall
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*Mantel, Hilary. ''Wolf Hall''. [2009] London: Fourth Estate, 2010. (9780007230204)
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*one of the following: [...]
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*as well as '''one''' of the following: [to be discussed]
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:*Dickens, Charles. ''A Tale of Two Cities'' (1859) - preferably Penguin or Norton
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:*Graves, Robert. ''I, Claudius'' (1934) - preferably Vintage
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:*Fowles, John. ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1969) - preferably Vintage
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:*Barnes, Julian. ''Flaubert's Parrot'' (1984) - preferably Vintage
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:*Morrison, Toni. ''Beloved'' (1987) - preferably xx
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:*Byatt, A.S. ''Possession'' (1990) - preferably xx
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:*Chevalier, Tracy. ''Remarkable Creatures'' (2009) - preferably --
  
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PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop.  
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PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop. '''Should the semester be postponed due to current circumstances, please use the time to immerse yourself in the reading of the first two novels.''' Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.
  
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*Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.
 
  
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*'''Course Requirements'''
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===Session 1: 23 April 2020: Introduction to the History of the Historical Novel===
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:*Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and a (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), based on the topic of the seminar.
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*Welcome: Please read my message under 'Ankündigungen on Stud.IP'; familiarize yourself with the draft syllabus that you find here and note the '''course requirements''' for 6 KP:  
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:*As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:  
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:*(1) excerpts and textual analysis assignments (upload weekly to Stud.IP)
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    Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten
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:*(2) three RPOs (1 per novel, 1 page each; upload to Stud.IP)
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    - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit
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:*(3) one seminar paper (12-15 pp), based on the topic of one of your RPOs (upload to Stud.IP and hand in as print version by 15 Sept).
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    - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten)
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*Historical fiction in academic discourse: 
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    - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch:
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:*Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006) - download via stud.ip
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      *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen (Gruppenarbeit) und
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*Historical fiction in public discourse:  
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      *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters:  
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:*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/29/an-escape-wonderful-historical-fiction John Mullan, "Beyond Mantel: The Historical Novels Everyone Must Read", ''The Guardian'' 29 Feb 2020]
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        Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten),
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:*[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/64137-10-best-historical-novels.html Alix Christie, "10 Best Historical Novels", ''Publishers Weekly'' 26 Sept 2014]
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        Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 24. Jan),  
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:*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/07/sir-walter-scott-fiction Stuart Kelly, "Sir Walter Scott's Waverley at 200 is not yet old", ''The Guardian'' 7 Jul 2014]
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        Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).
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:*[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/may/13/ten-best-historical-novels William Skidelsky, "The 10 Best Historical Novels", ''The Guardian'', 13 May 2012]
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*Task 1 (cf. Stud.IP)
  
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===Session 2: 30 April 2020: Formal and Functional Analysis of ''Wolf Hall''===
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*We will meet on Stud.IP (go to our course --> 'meetings' --> no camera, mute microphone, we will add these as we proceed)
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*Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
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*Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, ''Wolf Hall'' (2009)
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*Handout [https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/ang070_handout_Literature_and_representation_2017-18_final.pdf Literature & Representation]
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*Handout: [https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/handout_narratology_2018_10_12_2-seitig.pdf Narratology]
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*Task 2 (cf. Stud.IP)
  
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===Session 1: April 2020===
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===Session 3: 7 May 2020: Wolf Hall and Historiography===
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*Topic: Historiography and Subjectivity
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*Introduction:  
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*Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, ''Wolf Hall'' (2009)
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*Primary Literature:
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*Secondary Reading: Johnston, Andrew James. "Hilary Mantel: The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009- )." ''Handbook of the English Novel in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.'' Ed.Christoph Reinfandt. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. 536-54.
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*Task 3
  
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===Session 4: 14 May 2020: Critical Perspectives on Wolf Hall===
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*Topic: Waverly I
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*Topic: Using Contexts for Analysis
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*Context:  
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*Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, ''Wolf Hall'' (2009)
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*Primary Literature:  
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*Context: Stephen Greenblatt's NYRB review (2009)
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*Input Presentation/Secondary Reading:  
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*Secondary Reading: choose one among the following... Stocker (2012); Szymanski (2014); Murphy (2015); Brosch (2018); O'Connor (2018)
  
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===Session 3: ===
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*Topic: Waverly II
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*Primary Literature:
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*Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading:
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===Session 4: ===
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===Session 5: 28 May 2020: Theory and Methods I===
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*Topic: Wolf Hall I
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*Topic: The Historical Novel as Reconstruction
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*Context:  
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*Secondary Reading: de Groot, ''The Historical Novel'' (2010); read esp. Ch.2 Origins
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*Primary Literature:
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*Task 4 (cf. Stud.IP)
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*Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading:
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===Session 5: ===
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===Session 6: 4 June 2020: Formal and Functional Analysis of ''Waverley'' ===
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*Topic: Wolf Hall II
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*Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
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*Context:
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*Primary Literature: Scott, ''Waverley''
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*Primary Literature:  
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*Handout [https://www.uni-oldenburg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/ang070_handout_Literature_and_representation_2017-18_final.pdf Literature & Representation]
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*Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading:  
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*Handout: [https://uol.de/fileadmin/user_upload/anglistik/download/BM7/materials/handout_narratology_2018_10_12_2-seitig.pdf Narratology]
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===Session 6: ===
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*Course Reading:  
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*Group Work / Theory and Methods I:  
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===Session 7: ===
 
===Session 7: ===
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*Course Reading:  
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*Topic: Reconstructing Scottish History
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*Group Work / Theory and Methods I:  
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*Primary Literature: Scott, ''Waverley''
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*Context: History and Theory
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*Secondary Reading: Trevor-Roper, Hugh.  "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." ''The Invention of Tradition.'' Eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1st. ed. 1983, repr. 2003. 15-42.
  
 
===Session 8: ===
 
===Session 8: ===
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*Topic: Wolf Hall I
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*Topic: Reconstructing the History of the Historical Novel
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*Context:  
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*Primary Literature: Scott, ''Waverley''
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*Primary Literature:  
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*Context: Genre
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*Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading:  
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*Secondary Reading: Borgmeier, Raimund. "Das Gattungsmodell: Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)". Eds. Raimund Borgmeier and Bernhard Reitz. ''Der Historische Roman: 19. Jahrhundert''. Heidelberg: Winter, 1984. 39-55.
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  [Hand in RPO #2 until session 9]
  
 
===Session 9: ===
 
===Session 9: ===
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*Topic: Wolf Hall I
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*Group Work / Theory and Methods I
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*Lukacs, ''The Historical Novel'' (1937/1983); read esp. xx-xx
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===Session 10: ===
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*Topic:
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*Primary Literature: [third text]
 
*Context:  
 
*Context:  
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*Primary Literature:
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*Secondary Reading:
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*Input Presentation/ Secondary Reading:
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===Session 10: ===
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*Group Work
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*Course Reading:
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===Session 11: ===
 
===Session 11: ===
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*Group Work
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*Final Questions
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*Course Reading:
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*evaluation
  
 
===Session 12: ===
 
===Session 12: ===
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*Final Discussion
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*hand in your chosen and revised RPO
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*evaluation
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*feedback on evaluation
  
  
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   [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2020]
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===Session 13: ===
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*discussion of [[Ang070 - Introduction to Literary and Cultural Studies - RPOplus|RPOs]]
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===Tools===
 
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==Secondary Reading==
 
==Secondary Reading==
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(will be made available via Stud.IP, cf. also Handapparat)
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*Lukacs, Georg. ''The Historical Novel.'' [1937] Trans. Hanna and Stanley Mitchell. Introd. Frederic Jameson. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1983.
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*Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006)
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*de Groot, Jerome. ''The Historical Novel'' (2010)
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*Trevor-Roper, Hugh.  "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." ''The Invention of Tradition.'' Eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1st. ed. 1983, repr. 2003. 15-42.
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*Borgmeier, Raimund. "Das Gattungsmodell: Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)". Eds. Raimund Borgmeier and Bernhard Reitz. ''Der Historische Roman: 19. Jahrhundert''. Heidelberg: Winter, 1984. 39-55.
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*Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006)
  
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===Further Reading===
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==Further Reading==
 
cf. Stud.IP/Dateien
 
cf. Stud.IP/Dateien
  
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==Links==
 
==Links==
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*[http://historicalfictionsjournal.org/ The Journal of Historical Fictions] - an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal, published twice a year online, founded in the context of the Historical Fictions Research Network
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*[http://www.historicalnovels.info/ Historical Novels Website] - blog, reviews, categories by century and region
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*[https://historicalnovelsociety.org/ Historical Novel Society] - author and reader-oriented society; features reviews and articles from the [https://historicalnovelsociety.org/mag_edition/hnr-issue-91-february-2020/ Historial Novel Review]
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*[https://www.goodreads.com/genres/historical-fiction Historical Fiction at Goodreads]
  
 
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]
 
[[Category:Aufbaumodul]]
 
[[Category:SoSe 2020]]
 
[[Category:SoSe 2020]]

Revision as of 12:06, 14 May 2020

  • Course: 3.02.141
  • Time: Thursday 10-12h
  • Venue: A01 0-010 b / online
  • Course Description: The beginning of this summer term also marks the publication of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror & the Light, the third part in the Wolf Hall trilogy. With these bestselling and critically acclaimed titles, two Booker Prize wins and a world-wide fan base, Mantel has been at the centre of (1) a debate linking current Brexit politics with the English Reformation and (2) a resurgence of the historical novel. In this course, we will trace the beginnings and developments of the genre (from Waverly [1814] to Wolf Hall [2009]), its reconstructions of historical characters and settings (via a constructivist, New Historicist, postmodernist lense), as well as the scholarly contributions making sense of its appeal (from Lukacs to Borgmeier, Hutcheon, de Groot). Students are required to have read the two main novels and expand their experience with and knowledge of the genre by choosing a third novel (selection below) and studying secondary literature.

Please, buy and read the following novels:

  • Scott, Walter. Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since. [1814] Ed. Claire Lamont. Oxford: OUP, 1998/2008/2015. (9780198716594)
  • Mantel, Hilary. Wolf Hall. [2009] London: Fourth Estate, 2010. (9780007230204)
  • as well as one of the following: [to be discussed]
  • Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities (1859) - preferably Penguin or Norton
  • Graves, Robert. I, Claudius (1934) - preferably Vintage
  • Fowles, John. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) - preferably Vintage
  • Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot (1984) - preferably Vintage
  • Morrison, Toni. Beloved (1987) - preferably xx
  • Byatt, A.S. Possession (1990) - preferably xx
  • Chevalier, Tracy. Remarkable Creatures (2009) - preferably --

PLEASE NOTE: All primary materials will be made available at the CvO bookshop. Should the semester be postponed due to current circumstances, please use the time to immerse yourself in the reading of the first two novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.


Session 1: 23 April 2020: Introduction to the History of the Historical Novel

  • Welcome: Please read my message under 'Ankündigungen on Stud.IP'; familiarize yourself with the draft syllabus that you find here and note the course requirements for 6 KP:
  • (1) excerpts and textual analysis assignments (upload weekly to Stud.IP)
  • (2) three RPOs (1 per novel, 1 page each; upload to Stud.IP)
  • (3) one seminar paper (12-15 pp), based on the topic of one of your RPOs (upload to Stud.IP and hand in as print version by 15 Sept).
  • Historical fiction in academic discourse:
  • Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006) - download via stud.ip
  • Historical fiction in public discourse:
  • Task 1 (cf. Stud.IP)

Session 2: 30 April 2020: Formal and Functional Analysis of Wolf Hall

  • We will meet on Stud.IP (go to our course --> 'meetings' --> no camera, mute microphone, we will add these as we proceed)
  • Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
  • Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)
  • Handout Literature & Representation
  • Handout: Narratology
  • Task 2 (cf. Stud.IP)

Session 3: 7 May 2020: Wolf Hall and Historiography

  • Topic: Historiography and Subjectivity
  • Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)
  • Secondary Reading: Johnston, Andrew James. "Hilary Mantel: The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009- )." Handbook of the English Novel in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Ed.Christoph Reinfandt. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2017. 536-54.
  • Task 3

Session 4: 14 May 2020: Critical Perspectives on Wolf Hall

  • Topic: Using Contexts for Analysis
  • Primary Literature: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)
  • Context: Stephen Greenblatt's NYRB review (2009)
  • Secondary Reading: choose one among the following... Stocker (2012); Szymanski (2014); Murphy (2015); Brosch (2018); O'Connor (2018) 
  [Hand in RPO #1 until session 5]

Session 5: 28 May 2020: Theory and Methods I

  • Topic: The Historical Novel as Reconstruction
  • Secondary Reading: de Groot, The Historical Novel (2010); read esp. Ch.2 Origins
  • Task 4 (cf. Stud.IP)

Session 6: 4 June 2020: Formal and Functional Analysis of Waverley

  • Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
  • Primary Literature: Scott, Waverley
  • Handout Literature & Representation
  • Handout: Narratology

Session 7:

  • Topic: Reconstructing Scottish History
  • Primary Literature: Scott, Waverley
  • Context: History and Theory
  • Secondary Reading: Trevor-Roper, Hugh. "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." The Invention of Tradition. Eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1st. ed. 1983, repr. 2003. 15-42.

Session 8:

  • Topic: Reconstructing the History of the Historical Novel
  • Primary Literature: Scott, Waverley
  • Context: Genre
  • Secondary Reading: Borgmeier, Raimund. "Das Gattungsmodell: Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)". Eds. Raimund Borgmeier and Bernhard Reitz. Der Historische Roman: 19. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg: Winter, 1984. 39-55. 
  [Hand in RPO #2 until session 9]

Session 9:

  • Group Work / Theory and Methods I
  • Lukacs, The Historical Novel (1937/1983); read esp. xx-xx

Session 10:

  • Topic:
  • Primary Literature: [third text]
  • Context:
  • Secondary Reading: 


  [Hand in RPO #3 until session 11]

Session 11:

  • Final Questions
  • evaluation

Session 12:

  • hand in your chosen and revised RPO
  • feedback on evaluation 


  [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2020]

Tools

Primary Reading

Secondary Reading

(will be made available via Stud.IP, cf. also Handapparat)

  • Lukacs, Georg. The Historical Novel. [1937] Trans. Hanna and Stanley Mitchell. Introd. Frederic Jameson. Lincoln and London: U of Nebraska P, 1983.
  • Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006)
  • de Groot, Jerome. The Historical Novel (2010)
  • Trevor-Roper, Hugh. "The Invention of Tradition: The Highland Tradition of Scotland." The Invention of Tradition. Eds. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1st. ed. 1983, repr. 2003. 15-42.
  • Borgmeier, Raimund. "Das Gattungsmodell: Sir Walter Scott, Waverley (1814)". Eds. Raimund Borgmeier and Bernhard Reitz. Der Historische Roman: 19. Jahrhundert. Heidelberg: Winter, 1984. 39-55.
  • Keen, Suzanne. "The Historical Turn in British Fiction" (2006)

Further Reading

cf. Stud.IP/Dateien

Quotes

Links

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