American Romancers: Hawthorne and Melville - AAALB004AE

• Title: American Romancers: Hawthorne and Melville
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALB004A
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature

Annotation

An examination of the practitioners of the American romance tradition who built upon the distinction, made by Emerson (and repeated by Nathaniel Hawthorne), between "romances" and "fictions" (novels), including short fictions, hypernomian excursions, by Hawthorne and Melville subversive in various ways of fixed or external standards or hierarchies of value, and which offer, instead, examples of the creative nihilism and nonconformist self- and value-construction characteristic of the "shifting world," the mental universe, of the American Renaissance.

Last update: Hermanová Andrea, Mgr. (31.08.2017)

Literature

 

1) Hawthorne, "Wakefield" (1835) and "The Celestial Railroad" (1843)

2) Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" (1835) and "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844)

3) Emerson on romance as a genre in "Europe and European Books" (Dial, Volume iii [1842]); and Hawthorne, Prefaces from The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and The Blithedale Romance (1852)

4) Hawthorne, excerpts from The Scarlet Letter (1850)

5) Hawthorne, excerpts from The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

6) Hawthorne, excerpts from The Blithedale Romance (1852)

7) Melville, excerpts from Mardi (1849)

8) Melville, excerpts from Moby-Dick (1851)

9) Melville, "Bartheby the Scrivener" (1856)

10) Melville, "Benito Cereno" (1856)

11) Melville, excerpts from The Confidence-Man (1857)

12) Melville, Billy Budd (1924)

Last update: Hermanová Andrea, Mgr. (31.08.2017)