Universität Wien

120116 SE "Desperate Housewives": Desire and Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (2007W)

Literary Seminar

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

anrechenbar als K 521 und K 522. ECTS UF Englisch: 3P .

Details

Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 18.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 25.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 08.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 15.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 22.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 29.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 06.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 13.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 10.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 17.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 24.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Donnerstag 31.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this seminar, we will consider the rise of the domestic woman in 19th-century American literature and culture. Analyzing how the discourse of sexuality is implicated in shaping the novel, we will show in what ways literature contributed to the dissemination of a new female ideal. Discussing the notions of "True Womanhood" and "separate spheres," we will investigate how the so-called cult of domesticity invested forms of social behavior with the emotional values of women. In particular, we will analyze various novels which portray female figures that are positioned in various ways by the discourse of domesticity: as adulteress, moral mother, wife, and desperate housewife.
Requirements for credit: Oral presentation, active participation in class, and a term paper.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Critical readings of literary texts, class discussions, oral presentations.

Literatur

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter (1850), Susan Warner The Wide, Wide World (1850), Maria Cummins The Lamplighter (1854), Luisa May Alcott's Little Women (1869), Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1899), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899). These texts are available at Buchhandlung Facultas. There will also be a class reader in Copyshop Schwarzspanierstraße. For more information, check also the website: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Astrid.Fellner

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

322, 821, 338, 722, K 521, K 522, K531, K532

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33