Course details

Name: ENGL - 262

Title: Art of Fiction

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
The Art of Female Rebellion: How did women writers in the eighteenth nineteenth centuries tell interesting stories about women who broke with tradition and chased their passions during a time when the ideal woman was demure and chaste? In this class, we’ll explore the strategies female authors used to invent bold, ambitious, and adventurous female characters (sure, some of them had to die, but some of them also got to shoot guns). Sometimes the authors used biographies (their own and others), sometimes they turned to history, and sometimes they turned the proper limits of the nineteenth-century parlor to their own subversive ends. The class will read conduct manuals, philosophical treatises, and fiction by Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley. We will also spend time exploring how modern Hollywood depicts these rebellious women for twenty-first century audiences. Students will write a short essay, develop modern conduct manuals, and complete a research project about one of the critical questions we’ll develop over the course of the semester.

Last updated on 2011-11-07 By Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Schedule: Tuesday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
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• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)

Teaching Faculty: Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Is course canceled: No