ENGL 90620 - Out of Bounds: Space, Nationalism, and the Cartographies of Desire in 19thc. U.S. American Lit.

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

By using the concept of phantasmagoria as warrant, this graduate seminar traces the permutations of boundaries as they emerge in a number of domains--the codes of respectability, the corpus of the body, and the intersection of contact zones--that regulate various modes of sociality in the U.S. More specifically, the course will examine these permutations as articulations of three forms of subjectivity--the liminal or transcendent, the hybrid, and the excessive--throughout nineteenth-century U.S. literature. Texts may include Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly, Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee, Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite, Herman Melville's Pierre, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Martin Delany's Blake, Lydia Maria Child's "A Romance of the Republic," Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby," Charles Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars, and Henry James's The Wings of the Dove, among others. Course requirements include one presentation and 25-page research paper.

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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