Using both fictional and non-fictional texts as our primary source material, we will discuss historic events and developments as well as broader cultural, political, social, economic, religious and institutional contexts in the history of Britain from pre-Roman times to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. "History" is accessible to us mainly in the form of various kinds of "stories", and we will spend the weekly sessions primarily on the close textual analysis of these (hi)stories.
A Course Reader with source material will be made available; it will NOT contain general chronologies or timelines of "the basics" like reigns of monarchs, dates of important events, names of important people. It is your own responsibility to read up on the general outline of British history up to c. 1800.
It is expected that you will prepare yourself for the course by surfing and reading extensively (i.e. "a lot") on the following website:
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Mi | 14-16 | H9 | 07.04.-18.07.2008 |
Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM3 | 0/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM3 | 0/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM3 | 0/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM3 | 0/3 | ||||
Europa Intensiv | Theoretische Grundlagen | Wahlpflicht | 0/3 | ||||
Studieren ab 50 |