Publications and Work in Progress
a) Books:
Ph.D. thesis: A Passion for Privacy. Untersuchungen zur Genese der bürgerlichen Privatsphäre in London, 1660-1800. Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, Bd. 56 (München: Oldenbourg, 2004)
574 pp. Large sections of this book are available on Google Books.
Just published:
Harald A. Mieg and Christoph Heyl (eds.), Stadt. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (Stuttgart: Verlag J. B. Metzler), ISBN: 978-3-476-02385-8
For further details, see: Metzler Verlag
Habilitationsschrift: Worlds of Wonders: Schreibendes Sammeln und sammelndes Schreiben in England, ca. 1600-1700. Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London, 589 pp. (Munich: Oldenbourg, forthcoming).
Books: Work in Progress:
Monograph: German- and Yiddish-speaking emigrants and refugees in London, 1848-1945.
Proceedings: Sigrid Rieuwerts, Christoph Heyl and Shona Allan (Eds.): Scotland-Scot(t)land. Proceedings of the First Conference of the Society for Scottish Studies in Europe (2011).
Monograph: London – eine kleine literarische Kulturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart
b) Articles:
„עונש בכפר – אופנה בעיר ” („Punishment in the Country – Fashion in the City”). In: משקפײמ (Mishkafayim Art Quarterly), No. 33, 3/1998 (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem), pp. 28-31.
„When they are veyl’d to be seene: The Metamorphosis of the Mask in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century London” in: Tseelon, E. (Hrsg.), Masquerade and Identities (London: Routledge, 2001), pp. 114-134.
„When they are veyl’d to be seene” erschien gleichfalls in: Entwistle, J., Wilson, E. (Hrsg.), Body Dressing. Dress, Body, Culture (Oxford: Berg, 2001), pp. 121-143.
„We are not at Home: Protecting Middle-Class Domestic Privacy in Post-Fire London” in: The London Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2002), pp. 12-33.
„Deformity’s Filthy Fingers: Cosmetics and the Plague in: (Anon.), Artificiall Embellishments, or Art’s best Directions how to preserve Beauty, or procure it (Oxford, 1665)” in: Glaisyer, N.; Pennell, S. (Hrsg.), Didactic Literature in England 1500-1800: Experience Constructed (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 137-151.
„Einhorn und Indianermantel” in: Spektrum der Wissenschaft 4/2004, Sonderheft Forschung und Technik der Renaissance, pp. 12-15.
„Whodunnit und who are we? Das Thema der schottischen Identität in Ian Rankins neuem Roman Fleshmarket Close“ in: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, LIII, Jahrgang 2005, Heft 4, pp. 369-383.
„Meyney, Maummenark, Billingbing, Banana: Textualität, exotische Klangmagie und Imagination im Kuriositätenkabinett der Tradescants” in: Lozar, A. and Felfe, R. (Eds.), Frühneuzeitliche Sammelpraxis und Literatur (Berlin: Lukas, 2006), pp. 194-215.
„Lusus Naturae und Lusus Scientiae im ältesten öffentlich zugänglichen Kuriositätenkabinett Englands“ in: Cardanus. Jahrbuch für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Nr. 6, 2006, pp. 25-44.
„Gentleman“ in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, Vol.. 4: Friede – Gutsherrschaft (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2006), 2 pp, q.v.
„Dame Nature’s Imagination: Creation, Creativity and Gender” in: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia (Ed.), Gender and Creation. Surveying Gendered Myths of Creativity, Authority and Authorship (Heidelberg: Winter, 2010), pp. 65-84.
"London as a Latter-Day Rome? From Neo-Classicist to Post-Colonial Urban Imagination and Beyond, 1666-1941" in: Kinzel, Ulrich (Hrsg.), London. Urban Space and Cultural Experience. Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, Special Issue, XLII, 2/3, 2010, pp. 103-126.
„God’s terrible Voice in the City: Anmerkungen zur Rezeption des Great Fire of London (1666) in: Rößler, Hole and Koppenleitner, Vera (Eds.), Urbs Incensa – Ästhetische Transformationen der brennenden Stadt. Schriftenreihe des kunsthistorischen Max Planck-Instituts in Florenz, Bd. 10 (München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011), pp. 23-44.
„Horrid Howling or Sublime Sensation? Reactions to the Scottish Bagpipes and Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory” in: Wagner, Peter and Ogée, Frédéric (Eds.), Taste and the Senses in the Eighteenth Century (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011), pp. 145-163.
„Ungrateful Odours, Sullying Toch: Excursions into the Dubious Realms of Trivia and Cloacina” in: Wagner, Peter and Ogée, Frédéric (Eds.), Taste and the Senses in the Eighteenth Century (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011), pp. 269-282.
„Horticultural, Panoramic and Peripatetic Modes of Identity Construction in Eighteenth-Century England” in: Anja Müller and Isabel Karremann (Eds.), Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England, 20 S. (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 205-209.
„Staging Scottishness: The Homecoming Scotland 2009 Initiative and Post-Devolution Perceptions of Scottish Culture, Literature and Identity” in: Frenk, Joachim and Steveker, Lena (Edd.), Anglistentag 2010 Saarbrücken: Proceedings (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011), pp. 39-56. www.wvttrier.de/top/proceedings_2010_wvt.pdf
“Wenn die Menschen plötzlich tugendhaft wären, so müßten viele Tausende verhungern: Kriminalität in London zur Zeit Lichtenbergs” in: Joost, Ulrich (Ed.), Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2011 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2012), pp. 101-116.
„William Hogarth, Science and Human Nature” in: Haekel, Ralf and Blackmore, Sabine (Ed.), Discovering the Human: Life Sciences and the Arts in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century (Göttingen: V&R, 2013), pp. 29-52.
"Die Stadt als kultureller Raum" in: Harald Mieg and Christoph Heyl, Stadt. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013), pp. 199-201.
„Stadt und Literatur“ in: Harald Mieg and Christoph Heyl, Stadt. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013), pp. 222-243.
„Privatsphäre, Öffentlichkeit und urbane Modernität. London als historischer Präzedenzfall“ in: ” in: Harald Mieg and Christoph Heyl, Stadt. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2013), pp. 271-282.
“Barometz, Dodo, Jubjub, Heffalump: Vom Heimischwerden bizarrer Tiere in der englischen Literatur“ in: M. Ulrich und D. de Rentiis (edd.), Animalia in Fabula (Bamberg, 2014), pp. 29-49.
“Handel’s Oratorios and the Taste of Eighteenth-Century London Audiences: Solomon as a Box Office Disaster” in: Frédéric Ogée and Peter Wagner (edd.), Taste and the Senses in the Eighteenth Cebtury IV (Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014 / forthcoming), 17 pp.
„Between Closet and Tea-Table: Domesticity, Leisure and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century London“ in: Hill-Zenk, Anja and Sprang, Felix (Eds.), Leisure and the Making of Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 25 S. (Ashgate: forthcoming).
“Private Narratives Beyond the Core Canon: William Hogarth’s Conversation Pieces” in: Bernd W. Krysmanski (ed.), 250 Years On: New Light on William Hogarth (Hildesheim,Zurich andNew York: Olms, 214 / forthcoming), 16 pp.
c) Reviews:
Biagoli, Mario, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit. Telescopes, Instruments, Secrecy (Chicago, 2006) in: Sehepunkte 7 (2007, Nr. 10) (ISSN 1618-6168), URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/10/pdf/9938.pdf
Snook, Edith, Women, Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England (Aldershot, 2005) in: Sehepunkte 7 (2007, Nr. 10) (ISSN 1618-6168), URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/10/pdf/12084.pdf
Edwards, Clive, Turning Homes into Houses. A History of the Retailing and Consumption of Domestic Furnishings (Aldershot, 2005) in: Sehepunkte 7 (2007, Nr. 10) (ISSN 1618-6168), URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2007/10/pdf/12085.pdf
Prein, Philipp, Bürgerliches Reisen im 19. Jahrhundert (Münster, 2005) in: Historische Zeitschrift No. 286 (2008), pp. 221-222.
Sutherland, Gill, Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind. The Cloughs and their Circle, 1820-1960 (Cambridge, 2006) in: Historische Zeitschrift Nr. 286 (2008), pp. 522-524.
Schwalm, Helga, Das Eigene und das Fremde. Biographische Identitätsentwürfe in der englischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts (Würzburg, 2007) in: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, LVI, 2008, Heft 4, pp. 403-404.
Manz, Stefan, Schulte-Beerbühl, Margrit und Davis, John R., Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914 (München, 2007) in: Angermion, Vol. I (2008), pp. 183-187.
Chalcraft, Anna und Viscardi, Judith, Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole’s Gothic Castle (London, 2007) in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 15/2 (2008), pp. 192-194.
Cowen Orlin, Lena, Locating Privacy in Tudor London (Oxford, 2007) in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Vol. 16/1 (2009), pp. 98-99.
Huck, Christian, Fashioning Society, or, The Mode of Modernity. Observing Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Würzburg, 2010) in: Journal for the Study of British Cultures, forthcoming
d) Miscellaneous
„Die Playfords und ihre Zeit”. Essay on amateur music-making in early modern London, sleeve notes, CD Oranges and Lemons. John Playford’s English Dancing Master (Coviello Classics COV20709, 2007), pp. 3-5 and 29-31.
„Theodora und das Londoner Publikum: Versuch einer Rekonstruktion“ Sleeve notes, CD Georg Friedrich Händel, Theodora. An Oratorio. HWV 68. Junge Kantorei / Frankfurter Barockorchester (Naxos MB 10024, 2010), pp. 11-15.
Current Lectures and Seminars Winter 2014/15
Mo 16-17.00, Lecture:
V - Introduction to Literary Studies (einstündige Einführung) (Mod. II)
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Modul: II, A/Aa
Room: S04 T01 A01
The "Introduction to Literary Studies" consists of this lecture and the accompanying "Grundkurse", each one hour per week.
The lecture will cover the following areas: (1) What is "literature"? Why study literature? (2) Overview of British and American literary history and the history of New Literatures in English (3) Introduction to the major genres of literature (poetry, drama, narrative) (4) Introduction to Literary Theory (6) How to write a "Hausarbeit".
This course will be a helpful introduction for all further courses in literary and cultural studies throughout your further studies at our university. The obligatory written test ("Klausur") required for completion of the "Introduction to Literary Studies" will cover both the lecture and the accompanying "Grundkurse". A Reader will be available from the copy-shop Reckhammerweg well in advance of the semester. You also need to buy (and read) in the following editions (and none other):
William Shakespeare (Hrsg: Stephen Orgel), The Tempest. Oxford World’s Classics. ISBN 978-0-19-953590-3
John Steinbeck (Hrsg: Susan Shillinglaw), Cannery Row. Penguin Modern Classics. SSBN-13: 987-0-141-18508-8
Michael Meyer, English and American Literatures. 4. Auflage. UTB Basics. ISBN-13: 798-3825-235505
Besondere Hinweise: Dies ist die Vorlesung zum Grundkurs Literaturwissenschaft "Introduction to Literary Studies". Teilnahme ist Pflicht. Eine Anmeldung zur Vorlesung ist nicht nötig; für die Grundkursgruppen ist eine Anmeldung verpflichtend.
Requirements: regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, active participation in the “Grundkursgruppen”, and a final exam.
Di 10-12.00 Advanced Seminar:
The Restoration: Literature, Culture and Everyday Life in a Period of Change
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Modul: VIII/1, G/Ga, BP3, VI
Room: R11 T05 C84
After a dramatic revolutionary period which saw the beheading of the king, the monarchy was re-established with the return of Charles II from exile in 1660. This new beginning was in itself a kind of cultural revolution. Gone were the days of a Puritan government that had enforced a strict morality. King Charles II’s mistresses became famous, the Earl of Rochester wrote incredibly bawdy poetry, and Samuel Pepys recorded his experiences and escapades in his famous diary. Fashions became more and more exuberant and colourful. The theatres, which had been closed during the revolutionary period, reopened, and for the first time there were actresses on stage. The period known as the Restoration was full of excitement – including the sort of excitement one would rather do without. Life in London was disrupted by two major disasters, the Great Plague of 1664, which killed of a large part of London’s population, and the Great Fire of 1666 which destroyed most of the City of London.
In this seminar, we shall discuss key aspects of the literature, culture (including architecture, art and music) and everyday life of the Restoration. A reader will be made available well in advance of the semester (available from the usual place in Reckhammerweg).
Requirements: regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, active participation, and written work according to your particular Studienordnung. As always: read, think, enjoy (!!), annotate (!) and look things up if necessary.
Di 14-16.00, Advanced Seminar:
Alexander Pope
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Modul: VIII/1, G/Ga, BP2, BP3, VI
Room: R09 T07 D33
This seminar will give you an opportunity to get acquainted with the works of a major eighteenth-century author. His poems cover an impressive range of topics including how to write literary texts, a very odd case of hair fetishism, the characters of women, architecture and what to do with one’s money. He wrote absolutely ferocious satires; these include The Dunciad, a mock-heroic poem describing, among other things, the reign of the goddess of Dullness and the bizarre rituals practised by her followers. His poems were regarded as models of elegance and formal accomplishment; at the same time, they can be full of fierce humour and bizarre surprises.
Requirements: regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, active participation, and written work according to your particular Studienordnung. As always: read, think, enjoy (!!), annotate (!) and look things up if necessary. The first text to be discussed is The Rape of the Lock. Please buy the following edition: Alexander Pope (ed.: Pat Rogers), Major Works (Oxford World´s Classics, ISBN 978-0-19-953761-7).
Mi 10-12.00, Advanced Seminar:
How to be a Lady/Gentleman (and Many Other Things Besides): Conduct Books
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Modul: VIII/1, G/Ga, BP3, VI
Room: R12 R03 A93
Conduct books (i.e. books that explained how to do things and how to behave in accordance to one’s social position, for instance as a lady, as a gentleman, as a well-mannered child or as a servant) became very popular from the late seventeenth century on. They remained so well into the Victorian era and even beyond. In this seminar, we shall study this type of text. Conduct books and advice literature in a wider sense can be read as historical sources; they can tell us a lot about the development of gender roles or about changing attitudes to children and childhood. At the same time, the authors of such texts frequently employed strategies borrowed from literary texts such as the novel.
A reader with material from the seventeenth century to the Victorian era will be made available well in advance of the semester (available from the usual place in Reckhammerweg).
Requirements: regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, active participation, and written work according to your particular Studienordnung. As always: read, think, enjoy (!!), annotate (!) and look things up if necessary.
Mi 14-16.00, Advanced Seminar:
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: English Musical Humour from the Seventeenth Century to Monty Python
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
Modul: VIII/1, G/Ga, BP3, VI
Room: R11 T07 C94
There appears to be a specifically British tradition of British musical humour. In this seminar, we are going to look at the emergence and developments of this tradition. We shall study (and listen to) seventeenth-century songs, the Beggar’s Opera (by Gay and Pepusch) and similar eighteenth-century works, The Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore and The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan, music hall songs of the 19th century and material of much more recent origin. You will meet any number of funny singing pirates, Japanese princesses, ghosts, sorcerers, men and women from London’s East End … and of course a not altogether serious character called Brian singing about looking on the bright side of life while being executed.
A reader will be made available well in advance of the semester (available from the usual place in Reckhammerweg).
Requirements: regular attendance, reading the assigned texts, active participation, and written work according to your particular Studienordnung. As always: read, think, enjoy (!!), annotate (!) and look things up if necessary.
Doctoral Colloquium in Literary and Cultural Studies
Di 18 - 19.30, dates to be announced,
Room: T12 V2 D20 oder Casino, vierzehntäglich.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heyl
(Buchenau/Gurr/Heyl/Raab)
This colloquium serves as a central forum of discussion, deliberation and debate for all doctoral candidates working on a dissertation in literary and/or cultural studies - regardless of whether your focus is on North America, Great Britain or another Anglophone region. In addition to discussing individual projects we will deal with more general issues relating to dissertations, academic conferences, and the profession.
Registration: Please sign up with your advisor ahead of time; additionally send an email to frauke.warmbier@uni-due.de.