ENGL 40568 - Women and Magazines

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

This course will explore women's print culture by focusing on women as producers and consumers of periodicals. Some of the key figures in what is sometimes called a "female" modernism made their living by publishing literary pieces and journalism in periodicals or through serving as literary editors: Djuna Barnes, Rebecca West, Virginia Woolf, Jesse Fauset, to name a few; and many of the key texts of literary modernism made their first appearance in periodicals. In addition, the periodical press has been called the medium that best "articulates the unevenness and reciprocities of evolving gender ideologies" and thus is ideal for a study of the role literary culture plays in constructing and diagnosing the contradictions of femininity in modernity. The period between the coincident rise of the New Woman and New Journalism in the 1880s and the dominance of the "woman's magazine" in the interwar years is extraordinarily rich in examples of diverse approaches to understanding femininity presented in the press. As we consider the connections between women and periodical culture from various angles (reception, circulation, representations of women journalists, the centrality of Little Magazines, "slick" magazines and women's magazines as key venues for publishing modernist texts, etc.) we will meet the modern woman journalist and her close relations: female editors, "sob sisters," "stunt girls," "agony aunts" to name a few. We will take a good look at a variety of publication venues - modernist "Little Magazines," feminist periodicals, so-called "women's magazines" as well as the daily press. We will be working with periodicals in various formats: microfilm, digitalized texts, edited collections, and bound volumes. One brief essay, two mid-length (8 to 10 page) essays and one group presentation.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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