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Présentation
In the 19th century, women writers were often writing on the domestic sphere and on sentimental matters. Things began to change in the middle of the century when women started looking at other spheres, discovering what they could do outside the home place. Discussing the place of women in the canon, this class will focus on several writers whose work helped change the face of women for the centuries to come. By revisiting stereotypes to better condemn them, some women writers paved the way for emancipation long before they were given the right to vote.
The seminar will be based on close-readings of texts by women writers, sometimes in relation to works by male writers that will be handed out separately. Students are expected to have purchased and read Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening (Penguin edition, preferably) for week 6 of class.
A selection of poems and stories will be handed out in the form of a reader. They include:
Poems by Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson
Susan Petigru King, “A Marriage of Persuasion” (1857).
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “Felipa” (1876).
Constance Fenimore Woolson, “‘Miss Grief’” (1880).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Giant Wisteria” (1891).
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper” (1892).
Kate Chopin, “Her Letters” (1895).
Edith Wharton, “The Eyes” (1910).
Required reading: Kate Chopin, The Awakening. Penguin edition.
Modalités
18 hours
Ressources
<b>Bibliography:</b>|| Beer, Janet. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.|| Donaldson, Susan V. Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914. Boston: Twayne, 1998.|| Harrintgton, Ellen Burton, ed. Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form: Approaches by American and British Women Writers. New York : Peter Lang, 2008.|| Koloski, Bernard, ed. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. [<b>BUV</b>]|| Louvel, Liliane & Claudine Verley. Introduction à l’étude de la nouvelle.<i> </i>Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1993. [<b>BUV</b>]|| Martin, Wendy. New Essays on<i> The Awakening</i>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.|| Perrin-Chenour, Marie-Claude. Kate Chopin: Ruptures. Paris: Belin, “Voix américaines,” 2002. [<b>BUV</b>]|| ___. Les Romancières américaines. Paris: Ellipses, 1995.|| Ricard, Virginia, ed. The Short Stories of Edith Wharton. Special issue of Journal of the Short Story in English 58 (Spring 2012). [on-line]|| Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.|| ___. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing. London: Virago, 1977.|| Ullmo, Anne. Edith Wharton: La Conscience entravée. Paris: Belin, “Voix américaines,” 2001. <b>[BUV]</b>|| Verley, Claudine. Lectures critiques en anglais: A Guide to Critical Reading of Fiction in English. Paris: Ophrys, 1998.|| Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne, 1990.|||| <b>, </b>|| .