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Lehrende/r: apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel
Veranstaltungsart:
Hauptseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
06.008.0508
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Über die Senatsrichtlinie hinaus werden bei der Platzvergabe für diese Veranstaltung Studierende höherer Fachsemester bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
In this seminar, we will analyze the “woman question” that caused heated debates in the nineteenth century in the United States. We will investigate key words such as separate spheres, true woman, angel in the house and green sickness. We will look at conduct books as well as legal and medical texts and talk about the Suffragette Movement. Then our focus will shift to the literary presentation of women in women’s writing of the same time period. The writers of the time period often called “scribbling women” subtly deconstruct the stereotypical images of women and introduce women’s rights questions. We will evaluate their methods of “writing back” and unleashing the “madwoman in the attic”.
Your work in this seminar will encompass these assignments:
- Reading the novels listed below and the shorter historical and literary texts handed out to you in class
- participating in classroom discussions
- preparing one class session with a group of students, including a handout summarizing the most important points
- a written paper on your individual topic to be submitted, at the latest, on March 10, 2018.
Prerequisite for participation in the class:
Please, during the semester break read the novels listed below. Any used paper edition will do. You will not be able to do all the reading during the semester, so please make sure to read the novels beforehand!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Inhalt:
In this seminar, we will analyze the “woman question” that caused heated debates in the nineteenth century in the United States. We will investigate key words such as separate spheres, true woman, angel in the house and green sickness. We will look at conduct books as well as legal and medical texts and talk about the Suffragette Movement. Then our focus will shift to the literary presentation of women in women’s writing of the same time period. The writers of the time period often called “scribbling women” subtly deconstruct the stereotypical images of women and introduce women’s rights questions. We will evaluate their methods of “writing back” and unleashing the “madwoman in the attic”.
Your work in this seminar will encompass these assignments:
- Reading the novels listed below and the shorter historical and literary texts handed out to you in class
- participating in classroom discussions
- preparing one class session with a group of students, including a handout summarizing the most important points
- a written paper on your individual topic to be submitted, at the latest, on March 10, 2018.
Prerequisite for participation in the class:
Please, during the semester break read the novels listed below. Any used paper edition will do. You will not be able to do all the reading during the semester, so please make sure to read the novels beforehand!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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