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This seminar focuses on the way in which Scotland is represented in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish literature as well as in English literature and culture of the same period - representations ensuing in a complex and wide network of Anlgo-Scottish (literary) relations. In a few introductory sessions, we will contextualize late eighteenth and nineteenth-century Anglo-Scottish (literary) relations historically. In the main part of this seminar, we will then read and analyse Scottish and English literary texts with a view to the way in which they represent Scottish culture and how this representation refracts Anglo-Scottish relationships. Among the authors studied over the course of the semester are Robert Burns, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, James Hogg, Thomas Carlyle, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Students will have the opportunity to participate in a joint excursion (co-organized by Helga Schwalm and Wolfram Keller for students of their Scottish literature seminars) to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Scottish Highlands in order to pursue their research projects in Scotland. This (non-obligatory) excursion will take place at the end of September 2013. A preliminary meeting for those students interested in the excursion will take place at the end of February. If you are interested in participating in the excursion, please contact me by email by 15 February 2013 (<wolfram.keller@staff.hu-berlin.de>). |
