ENGL 380 - Scribbling Women 19th Century American Women Writers

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course will trace the rich and diverse tradition of women's writing in 19th-century America. Reading novels, short stories, poetry, and essays, as well as cultural artifacts such as newspapers and photographs, we will consider the contexts that influenced women's writing and evaluate women authors' contributions to literary, political, and social movements during the 1800s. We will pay particular attention to representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in women's writing. African American, Euro-American, Hispanic, Native American, middle- and working-class women authors will be studied, and may include Maria Stewart, Maria Cummins, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Zitkala- a, Louisa May Alcott, Caroline Kirkland, Frances E.W. Harper, Emily Dickinson, and Nancy Prince. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or of a course emphasizing literature written after 180 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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