32214

Women Writers in the American Renaissance: Authorship, Genre, Place

Stefanie Müller

Zusätzl. Angaben / Voraussetzungen

This is a short and reading-intensive class. If you want to participate and receive credits for it. 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 17). 2. The shopping period is limited to week one. You must commit to the class by our second meeting. 3. We will discuss excerpts from longer texts during the first half of the semester, but during the second we will also discuss two book-length texts: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Norton Critical Edition) and Stoddard, The Morgesons (Penguin edition). Schließen

Kommentar

In this class, we discuss fiction and non-fiction by women writers from the 1830s to the 1860s, a period that is often referred to as the American Renaissance. As those students who took my previous lecture on the American Renaissance know, the term and the scholarship that it initially motivated, largely ignored female-identified writers and the genres in which they were particularly successful. As a counterpoint, this class will attempt to provide a small sample of the great variety of writing by women that was available in the literary market and in the process once more alert students to the emergence of particular genres and modes, such as the domestic novel and the sketch, sentimentalism and realism, during those decades. Schließen

11 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 08:00 - 10:00 11 Termine

Do, 17.04.2025 08:00 - 10:00

Dozenten:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefanie Müller