17321
Proseminar
PS-Surveying English Literatures: Gentle Women, Hard Work
Hendrikje Kaube
Comments
In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, the primary workplace shifted from homes to factories. While hitherto women had commonly participated in the family business, Victorian ideology favoured separate spheres for men and women, with the latter reigning over house and hearth. Though their working-class counterparts sought employment in agriculture and other industries, performing paid manual labour jeopardized the social status of middle-class women, leaving those without financial support with limited opportunities to make a living.
This course will explore the few occupations for impoverished gentlewomen over the course of the long nineteenth century as portrayed in fact and fiction, and explore modern notions of gender and work. We are going to look at three novels which participants are expected to have read before the respective sessions as well as shorter texts to be provided during the semester.
Texts:
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
George Gissing, The Odd Women close
This course will explore the few occupations for impoverished gentlewomen over the course of the long nineteenth century as portrayed in fact and fiction, and explore modern notions of gender and work. We are going to look at three novels which participants are expected to have read before the respective sessions as well as shorter texts to be provided during the semester.
Texts:
Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
George Gissing, The Odd Women close
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Mon, 2025-10-13 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-10-20 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-10-27 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-11-03 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-11-10 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-11-17 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-11-24 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-12-01 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-12-08 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2025-12-15 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-01-05 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-01-12 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-01-19 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-01-26 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-02-02 14:00 - 16:00
Mon, 2026-02-09 14:00 - 16:00