32202
Advanced Seminar
Melville's Periodical Fiction
Stefanie Müller
Additional information / Pre-requisites
If you want to participate in and receive credits for this class, please take note of the following conditions for participation:
1. Register on Blackboard for this class as soon as possible so that you access to the material that we will discuss in session one (April 15).
2. The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the class by our second meeting.
Please purchase Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories by Herman Melville (Penguin Classics).
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For a long time, the research on Herman Melville’s fiction focused on his novels, in particular, of course, Moby Dick. This was at least in part due to Melville’s famous “dollars damn me”-statement, which Americanists liked to see as an expression of a tormented genius who would never write for a paying audience. As always, history is messier than that, and the texts that Melville wrote for periodicals such as Harper’s Magazine were plentiful and suggest that he actually enjoyed writing them. In this class, we will look at his best known as well as lesser known pieces, discuss works by other contemporary writers, and generally seek to understand how Melville’s writing developed as part of the stylistic and generic environment of periodical fiction close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2025-04-15 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-04-22 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-04-29 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-05-06 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-05-13 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-05-20 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-05-27 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-06-03 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-06-10 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-06-17 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-06-24 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-07-01 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-07-08 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-07-15 14:00 - 16:00