gb - Englisches Seminar - Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. New York: Bantam, 1990.
ISBN: 978-0-553-34847-7
Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism. 2nd ed. New Critical Idiom. London and New York:
Routledge, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-415-66786-9
Assessment/requirements: Übung: short essay; Seminar: term paper
(wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit).
050 641 McColl
Belles Lettres: Epistles and Epistolography of the Long Eighteenth Century, 4 CP
2 st. mo 12-14 GB 6/137 Nord
This course will examine the prevalence of the letter in the literature of the long
eighteenth century, as subject-matter, plot-device and as form. It will consider both
how the letter becomes literary and how popular literature assimilates the letter,
incorporating its properties within poetry and the novel. It will address such diverse
genres as the poetic epistle, the epistolary novel and actual correspondence, as well
as essays and stories about letters.
Assessment/requirements: Übung: active participation and extended exposition;
Seminar: active participation, shorter in-class exposition and term paper
(wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit).
050 642 McColl
Transatlantic Literature, 4 CP
2 st. mi 16-18 GB 5/38 Nord
This course addresses transatlantic relations in post-revolutionary literature, with a
particular emphasis on British self-positioning vis à vis America. Beginning with the
British reaction to the revolution in Burke and Paine, it examines how literary and
cultural identities are formed in contradistinction, as well as the fragility of such
national distinctions amidst free literary and linguistic commerce. Hence it looks at
Anglophile Americans, such as Henry James, sometime Americanophiles, like
Dickens and Lawrence, and writers, like Paine, who occupy an uncertain midatlantic
ground.