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Feminist Literature and Politics in the 19th Century (AE_HSFeLi) [Import]- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 16:15 - 17:45, room tbd
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all winter term classes will be taught online.
Das Hauptseminar kann wie folgt verwendet werden:
MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Modul 7,8 MA The Americas / Las Américas: Modul 3b,4 MA Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell: Modul 4,5,7,8 MA Ethik der Textkulturen: M3, M4 Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul L-GYM Literature) BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A mit begleitender Independent Study Group MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card" mit begleitendem Kurs
- Contents
- This online seminar invites students to explore US-American First Wave Feminist Writing, both literary and political, from the early 19th century and the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 to the introduction of Women’s Suffrage in the US in 1920. Political readings include the Declaration of Sentiments, one of the most important documents of the American women’s movement, and Sojourner Truth’s African American intervention into its all-white self-conception, “Ain’t I a Woman?”. Literary readings span voices representing the early Republic (Catherine Sedgewick), mid nineteenth century transcendentalist thought (Margaret Fuller), the domestic novel (Harriet Beecher Stowe), the slave narrative (Harriet Jacobs), early regionalist articulations of self-determination (Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin), and the novel of manners (Edith Wharton). Additional critical material on the historical status of women in the US (Conny Brown/Jane Seitz), the ‘Cult of True Womanhood’ (Barbara Welter), the history of women’s writing (Sandra Gilbert/Susan Gubar, Elaine Showalter) as well as the criteria and authority employed to legitimate selected voices and texts as historically significant (Hayden White) will provide conceptual framing.
The seminar trains students in the practice of text-based and historically as well as theoretically framed interpretation. One course goal is to discuss and clarify in historical relation the degree to which social institutions and patterns of order – the family, questions of ownership and civil rights, the relation between private and public spheres, literary, cultural and political authority – are shaped by gender differentiations. Another goal is the explication of the cultural functions, the insight and weight of literary discourse in this exemplary context.
- Recommended literature
- Please buy the following novels (in paper!):
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself. 2. ed. New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2018. Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 3. ed. New York: Norton Critical Edition, 2017.
All other materials will be provided online, some of them in excerpts.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 24.8.2020, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 7.11.2020, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2020/2021:
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4 bis 20182)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4 ab 20182)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of Modern German Literature (Prof. Dr. Lubkoll-Klotz)
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