Universität Osnabrück, Wintersemester 2000/01
Content:
ab 3. Semester, Mo 16-18
Strictly speaking, the Augustan Age in English literary history covers the period from 1660 to 1750 but is sometimes extended to 1780 to include the Age of Johnson and to take into consideration one of the most important literary developments of the late 17th and 18th century: the constitution of the English novel. We will read major novels of this epoch, discuss the evolution of various types of the novel genre and explore the social, cultural and literary background of the period.
Requirements for a Schein (Literaturwissenschaft Grundstudium): oral presentation (Referat mit Thesenpapier) and a written version of this (10 pages). Alternatively: oral presentation and oral examination.
Required reading:
Week 1, 16.10.2000
Week 2, 17.10.2000
Week 3, 30.10.2000
Week 4, 06.11.2000
Week 5, 13.11.2000
Week 6, 20.11.2000
Week 7, 27.11.2000
Week 8, 04.12.2000
Week 9, 11.12.2000
Week 10, 18.12.2000
Week 11, 08.01.2001
Week 12, 15.01.2001
Week 13, 22.01.2001
Week 14, 29.01.2001
Week 15, 05.02.2001
Some Possible Topics for Presentation:
• How do narratives undermine the moral function of the novel? Examples: Moll Flanders and Pamela
• How does the novel differ from the romance? With specific reference to Clara Reeves
• Is Tristram Shandy a digression in the history of fiction or the most representative of novels?
• The functions of rules and rule-breaking in 18th century novels
• Science and literature: inventions, influences, indirect impact
• Presentations on individual authors, their work, and their specific contribution to the rise of the novel
• The role of women in the rise of the novel (e.g. was Aphra Behn's Oroonoko the first English novel?)
• The difference between author and narrator, and the question of the reliability of the narrator
• Earlier novels in Europe (e.g. Spain, France, Germany)
• Your own idea?
Selected Books
(all books available in the Osnabrück University Library)
Critical Editions
Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism. Ed. by Edward Kelly. - [1st ed.]. New York, NY [u.a.]: Norton, c 1973. Kt. (A Norton critical edition) Original ed. published in 1722 under title: The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders. Standort: B ELA D 3141 4698-535 4
Smollett, Tobias. Humphry Clinker: An Authoritative Text, Contemporary Responses, Criticism. Ed. by James L. Thorson. - 1. ed. New York, NY [u.a.]: Norton, 1983. - (A Norton critical edition). Originally published as: The expedition of Humphry Clinker. 1771. Standort: B ELA S 6661 4289-118 3
General Secondary Literature on the (18th Century) Novel and Literary Theory
Ahrens, Rüdiger, and Erwin Wolff (eds.). Englische und amerikanische Literaturtheorie: Studien zu ihrer historischen Entwicklung. Heidelberg: Winter, 1978. Bd. 1: Renaissance, Klassizismus und Romantik. 1978. Standort: B DSL 4120-763 9
Boardman, Michael M. Narrative Innovation and Incoherence: Ideology in Defoe, Goldsmith, Austen, Eliot, and Hemingway. Durham [u.a.]: Duke Univ. Press, 1992. Standort: B DTS 4595-923 9
Brown, Homer Obed. Institutions of the English Novel: From Defoe to Scott. Philadelphia, Pa.: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Standort: B DTS 4699-145 8
Greiner, Walter F. (ed.). Realismustheorien in England (1692 - 1919): Texte zur historischen Dimension der englischen Realismusdebatte. 2., vollst. überarb. und erw. Aufl. Tübingen: Narr, 1997. Standort: B DSL 4706-116 7
Hawthorn, Jeremy. Multiple Personality and Disintegration of Literary Character: From Oliver Goldsmith to Sylvia Plath. London: Arnold, 1983. Standort: Magazin 4261-529 1
Iser, Wolfgang. Der implizite Leser: Kommunikationsformen des Romans von Bunyan bis Beckett. München: Fink, 1972. Standort: Magazin 1850-1 12 2; Standort: Magazin 1850-593 7; Standort: Magazin 4260-994 8. - 2. Aufl. München: Fink, 1979. Standort: Magazin B DTS 4123 (Mehrfachex.). (siehe besonders S. 57 bis 131)
MacKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel: 1600-1740. - 3. print. Baltimore u.a.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Standort: B DTS 4412-960 4
McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. 1. USA ed., reprinted. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1968. Standort: B DSF 4008-715 1
Mengel, Ewald. Der englische Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts: eine Einführung in seine Klassiker. Tübingen: Stauffenburg-Verl., 1997. Standort: B DTS 4699-350 8
Ong, Walter Jackson. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London [u.a.]: Methuen, 1982. Standort: B BFG 4268-412 5. - Reprinted. London [u.a.]: Routledge, 1996. Standort: Freihand-Magazin 5110-198 7 (siehe besonders Kapitel 5)
Otten, Kurt. Der englische Roman vom 16. zum 19. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Schmidt, 1986. Standort: B DTS 4347-689 5
Owens, W.R. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London [u.a.]: Routledge [u.a.], 1996. Standort: B ELA S 5273 4641-942 2
Probyn, Clive T. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789. London [u.a.]: Longman, 1987. Standort: B DTS 4520-438 2
Rawson, Claude. Order from Confusion Sprung: Studies in Eighteenth-century Literature from Swift to Cowper. London [u.a.]: Allen & Unwin, 1985. Standort: B DTD 4324-852 8
Reeve, Clara. The Progress of Romance and The History of Charoba, Queen of Aegypt. - Reprod. from the Colchester ed. of 1785. New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1930. Standort: Magazin 4659-838 5
Reinfandt, Christoph. Der Sinn der fiktionalen Wirklichkeiten: ein systemtheoretischer Entwurf zur Ausdifferenzierung des englischen Romans vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Heidelberg: Winter, 1997. Standort: Freihand-Magazin 5410-563 4
Richetti, John. The English Novel in History: 1700 - 1780. London [u.a.]: Routledge, 1999. Standort: B DTS 4718-030 7
Schmitz-Burgard, Syliva. Das Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts: Richardson, Rousseau, Goethe. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2000. Standort: B geliefert
Stanzel, Franz K. Typische Formen des Romans. - 12. Aufl. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1993. Standort: Freihand-Magazin 5210-533 5
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. Repr. Harmondsworth [u.a.]: Penguin Books in Associeation with Chatto & Windus, 1974. Standort: B DTS 4008-155 5
Zmegac, Viktor. Der europäische Roman: Geschichte seiner Poetik. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1990. Standort: B BQD 4496-403 4
Secondary Literature on Individual Authors
Bellamy, Liz. Jonathan Swift´s Gulliver´s Travels. New York [u.a.]: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4579-302 6
Boucé, Paul-Gabriel. The Novels of Tobias Smollett. London [u.a.]: Longman, 1976. Standort: B ELA S 6667 4045-731 2
Brady, Frank [Hrsg.]. Twentieth Century Interpretations of "Gulliver´s Travels": A Collection of Critical Essays. - 4. print. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1968. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4012-819 1
Byrd, Max. Tristram Shandy. London [u.a.]: Allen and Unwin, 1985. Standort: B ELA S 8399 4314-713 7
Cleary, Thomas R. Henry Fielding: Political Writer. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Pr., 1984. Standort: B ELA F 4597 4350-993 7; Standort: B ELA F 4597 4350-993 7
Compton, Neil (ed.). Henry Fielding: "Tom Jones": A Casebook. London u.a.: Macmillan, 1970. Standort: B ELA F 4599 4029-420 3; Standort: Magazin 4179-241 6
Doody, Margaret Anne. A Natural Passion: A Study of the Novels of Samuel Richardson. Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1974. Standort: B ELA R 5257 4033-177 1
Engel, Gisela. Individuum, Familie und Gesellschaft in den Romanen Richardsons: eine literatursoziologische Studie. Frankfurt a.M.: Akad. Verl.-Ges., 1974. Standort: B ELA R 5257 4152-445 1
Gravil, Richard (ed.). Swift: "Gulliver´s Travels": A Casebook. Ed. by Richard Gravil. London [u.a.]: Macmillan, 1974. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4120-312 5; Standort: Magazin 4027-551 0; Standort: Magazin 4032-573 2; Standort: Magazin 4179-199 6
Gurr, Jens Martin. "Tristram Shandy" and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Heidelberg: Winter, 1999. Standort: B ELA S 8399 4718-269 3
Harris, Jocelyn. Samuel Richardson. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Standort: B ELA R 5257 4387-903 6
Harrison, Bernard. Henry Fielding´s Tom Jones: The Novelist as Moral Philosopher. London: Sussex Univ. Pr., 1975. Standort: B ELA F 4599 4016-153 0
Helbig, Jörg. ´Moll Flanders´ als Allegorie. Berlin: Profil Verl., 1990. - 111 S. Standort: Magazin 4500-106 4
Johnson, Maurice. Fielding´s Art of Fiction: Eleven Essays on Shamela, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, and Amelia. - 3. pr. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1969. Standort: B ELA F 4597 4329-337 9
Kearney, A.M. Samuel Richardson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul u.a., 1968. Standort: B ELA R 5254 4047-449 2
Lock, F.P. The Politics of Gulliver´s Travels. Oxford [u.a.]: Clarendon Pr., 1980. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4394-580 5
Moravetz, Monika. Formen der Rezeptionslenkung im Briefroman des 18. Jahrhunderts: Richardsons Clarissa, Rousseaus Nouvelle Héloïse und Laclos´ Liaisons dangereuses. Tübingen: Narr, 1990. Standort: B EYK B 4500-034 0
New, Melvyn (ed.). The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne. - 1. publ. Basingstoke [u.a.]: Macmillan, 1992. (New casebooks). Nebent.: Tristram Shandy. Bibliogr. und Literaturverz. S. 174 - 184. Standort: B ELA S 8399 4556-898 9; Standort: Magazin 4665-101 5
Paßmann, Dirk Friedrich. "Full of Improbable Lies": Gulliver´s Travels und die Reiseliteratur vor 1726. Frankfurt am Main [u.a.]: Lang, 1987. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4386-133 2
Paulson, Ronald, and Thomas Lockwood (eds.). Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage. - Reprinted. London [u.a.]: Routledge, 1995. Standort: Magazin 4641-804 1
Real, Hermann J., and Heinz J. Vienken. Jonathan Swift: "Gulliver´s Travels". München: Fink, 1984. Standort: B ELA S 9779 4289-199 2; Standort: G NNSW 559 4357-574 1
Richetti, John J. Defoe's Narratives: Situations and Structures. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Standort: B ELA D 3148 4014-913 8
Rousseau, George Sebastian. Tobias Smollett: Essays of Two Decades. Edinburgh: Clark, 1982. Standort: B ELA S 6663 4298-746 6
Swarbrick, Andrew (ed.). The Art of Oliver Goldsmith. London: Vision u.a., 1984. Standort: B ELA G 6243 4282-878 7
Wagoner, Mary. Tobias Smollett: A Checklist of Editions of His Works and an Annotated Secondary Bibliography. New York u.a.: Garland, 1984.Standort: B ELA S 6663 4298-933 8
Whittaker, Ruth. Tristram Shandy. Milton Keynes u.a.: Open University, 1988. (Open guides to literature). Standort: Magazin 4295-833 0
You may also want to check the following websites:
18th Century Chronology <http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Chron/index.html>
Early Modern (1660-1800) Literature <http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EarlyModern/LiteraryResources.html#17th>
18th Century Studies <http://eserver.org/18th/>
English Culture (1660-1830) <http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/231C.html>
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It was last updated on September 26, 2001.
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