Universität Wien

124344 PS Literary Studies / Proseminar Literature and Cultural Studies (2017W)

Gender Politics in Early America

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

An/Abmeldung

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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 13.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 20.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 27.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 03.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 17.11. 14:00 - 18:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Freitag 24.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 01.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 15.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 12.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 19.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A
  • Freitag 26.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Seminarraum 6 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-22.A

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This class explores gender and sexual difference in colonial British North America and the early United States (ca. 1600-1830). We will critically discuss basic conceptualizations of gender and sexuality in early America, and trace the cultural struggles over their meaning (e.g. the two-sex model, questions of gendered legislation and sexual ethics, or early forms of feminism). Moreover, we will examine the intersections of gender politics with a number of other cultural issues central to early America and the early modern Atlantic world: settler colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, various forms of racism, nationalism and nation building processes, militarism, as well as the questions of the political public sphere and an emerging aesthetic discourse. In the process, we will also discuss methodological/political questions concerning the archive, canon formation, and the feminist revision of early American culture that took place in the 1980s and 1990s.
In order to better understand how early Americans negotiated questions of gender and sexual difference, we will look at various exemplary historical texts, including court records, travel narratives, pamphlets, and perhaps most significantly, the early American novel.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular attendance, active participation in class, presentation, proseminar paper

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Active class participation (20%)
Class presentation (20%)
Proseminar paper (60%)

Prüfungsstoff

n/a

Literatur

You need to buy/borrow the following books:

Leonora Sansay: Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo (1808) - please get the Broadview edition, edited by Michael Drexler (which also includes Sansay’s novel Laura), should cost around 20-25 Euros, or less as an eBook.

Hannah Webster Foster: The Coquette (1797) - please get the Penguin Classics edition (which also includes William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy), should cost around 15 Euros, or less as an eBook.

Additional readings will be provided on Moodle.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: UF 3.3.3-304, BA 09.1, BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-0297

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33