32112
Vorlesung
Democracy, Reform, and Cultural Nationalism in the Age of Romanticism
Hannah Spahn
Kommentar
This lecture course (Grundlagenvorlesung) deals with the interlocking of Romanticism, cultural nationalism, and practices of political reform; it focuses on a broad archive of autobiographical writings, political tracts, literary works, philosophical essays, and popular entertainment from the period between the Jacksonian era and the Civil War. Topics include the evolution of democratic culture, “Indian Removal,” New England transcendentalism, debates on slavery and national expansion, sentimentalism and the abolitionist imagination, the emergence of popular entertainment forms and genres, and other critical issues of the time. Combining a focus on narrative forms and cultural self-descriptions with inquiries into shifting configurations and hierarchies of race, class, gender, and region, the lecture engages works by James Fenimore Cooper, William Apess, David Walker, Alexis de Tocqueville, Maria Stewart, Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Lydia Maria Child, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, P.T. Barnum, Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher-Stowe and others. Schließen
14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 16.04.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 23.04.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 30.04.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 07.05.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 14.05.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 21.05.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 28.05.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 04.06.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 11.06.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 18.06.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 25.06.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 02.07.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 09.07.2024 16:00 - 18:00
Di, 16.07.2024 16:00 - 18:00