Literature 2140 - Domesticity and Power

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

American Studies, GSS, SRE Women who wrote of the home and marriage and who detailed the chatter of the drawing room were not merely recording the trivial events of what was deemed to be their "place." ManyAmerican women writers of the 19th and 20th centuries used domestic novels as insightful critiques of American society and politics. Students read a range of work, including Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe's handbook of housekeeping, The American Woman's Home ( 1869), and the novels and short stories of Harriet Jacobs, Kate Chopin, Nella Larsen, Jessie Fauset, Frances E. W. Harper, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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