Seminar: 3.02.970 S Imperialism and Malthusianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Details

Seminar: 3.02.970 S Imperialism and Malthusianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: 3.02.970 S Imperialism and Malthusianism in Early Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Subtitle
Course number 3.02.970
Semester SoSe2025
Current number of participants 22
expected number of participants 23
Home institute Institute of English and American Studies
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Thursday, 10.04.25, 14:00 - 16:00 o'clock A15 1-113
Type/Form
Lehrsprache englisch

Rooms and times

A15 1-113

  • Thursday, 14:00 - 16:00, Weekly (from 10.04.25)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

Objectives
In the course of this seminar, you will
- encounter early nineteenth-century (and some very late eighteenth-century) philosophical and economic texts dealing with the question of population.
- critically engage yourself with different forms and theories of imperialism and Malthusianism.
- explore the intersection between imperialism and Malthusianism in the Romantic period.
- discuss how Mansfield Park (1814) and The Last Man (1826) address imperialism and Malthusianism at the level of content, and you will analyse the formal and generic means through which these two novels negotiate questions of population.
- reflect on Malthusian afterlives.
- develop individual research questions related to the seminar’s topic.

Admission settings

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