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In this seminar we will first discuss Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with special emphasis on its colonial subplot surrounding the convict Magwitch. We will further investigate Victorian attitudes towards and representations of convicts and migration to Australia as displayed, e.g. in Dickens's David Copperfield as well as Victorian paintings. In the latter part of the semester we shall analyse Jack Maggs, contemporary Australian author Peter Carey's postcolonial re-writing of Dickens's novel. Texts: - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Penguin pb)
- Peter Carey, Jack Maggs (faber pb)
- A course reader with further material will be available in the first meeting.
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