In January 1788, eleven British ships landed on the coast of Australia near where is now the Sydney Opera House. In addition to 630 crew and marines, there were some 750 men, women and children who would have been hanged in Britain for petty theft but had instead been shipped around the world to colonise terra australis incognita – ‘the unknown land of the south’ whose coastline had been mapped less than 20 years earlier by Captain James Cook.
In this seminar we are going to discuss factual and fictional accounts of the “First Fleet” and the various political, social, legal and cultural contexts of the European settlement in Australia.
Credit can be obtained by a presentation-and-report (5-7 pp.) or a term paper (10-15 pp.; cf. Modulhandbuch).
Texts:
Thomas Keneally, A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia (2006)
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM4; BaAngPM4.1 | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1 | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4; BaAngPM4.1 | 2/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1 | 2/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM4; BaAngPM4.1 | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1 | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM3; BaAngPM3.1 | 2/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4; BaAngPM4.1 | 2/3 |