32212
Advanced seminar
SoSe 23: Epidemic Fiction - Literature in Plagued Times
Karin Höpker
Comments
This class focuses on narratives of contagion across a spectrum of US American fiction. We will discuss a range of examples from the early republic and 19th-century gothic imagination to the present. Across media, course materials explore the changing tropes of contagion and epidemic as well as a history of biopolitical thought and techniques. We will discuss fiction in the context of scientific discourses of infection and disease, treatment and containment, and trace the rich archive of an epidemic imaginary informed by hierarchies of privilege and intersectional factors of race, class, and gender.
Texts by Brown, Poe, Hawthorne, Wharton, Porter, Tiptree, Whitehead and others will be made available; please acquire: Steward O’Nan A Prayer for the Dying, Philip Roth Nemesis.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2023-04-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-04-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-05-03 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-05-10 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-05-17 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-05-24 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-05-31 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-06-07 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-06-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-06-21 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-06-28 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-07-05 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-07-12 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-07-19 14:00 - 16:00