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ENGL-177 Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Literature
Spring only
While the women writers of the long nineteenth century were largely engaged with many of the same concerns as their male contemporaries (science, colonialism, national identity, industrialism), they often also took on questions specific to the conditions of women’s writing, for example, the problems of creating a female public persona, the economic circumstances of women’s lives, the relationship of sex to gendered identity, the benefits and disadvantages of marriage, the relationship of writing to child-bearing and child-rearing. This course examines several works of fiction, verse, and prose by women, reading them in light of both sets of nineteenth-century concerns. At the same time, we will be engaged in the question of how the process of literary canonization works and how women’s lives and writings enter into that process. Authors will include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Rossetti, Barrett Browning, Eliot, and Sarah Grand, as well as readings from twentieth-century feminist critics of nineteenth-century literature.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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