2017-2018-1

TO-ANGT-SK701-2

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

TO-ANGT-SK7, Any Course Seminar

TO-ANGT-SK7, Any Course Seminar

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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Week 1: introduction, theoretical background, definitions, the Seneca Falls Convention and The Declaration of Sentiments.
Week 2: discussing Transcendental Wild Oats by Louisa May Alcott and The Other Two by Edith Wharton, and Athénaise and Lilacs by Kate Chopin
Week 3: discussing A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Week 4: discussing The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Week 5: discussing The Bostonians by Henry James
Week 6: discussing Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Week 7: written midterm test
Week 8: discussing The Great Divide by William Vaughn Moody
Week 9: discussing A Man’s World by Rachel Crothers
Week 10: discussing As a Man Thinks by Augusts Thomas
Week 11: discussing Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg
Week 12: discussing The Outside by Susan Glaspell
Week 13: discussing Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams
Week 14: written final test

Reading List:
• “Seneca Falls Convention” in Alice S. Rossi ed., The Feminist Papers, From Adams to de Beauvoir (New York: Bantam Books Inc., 1976), 413-421. and “Seneca Falls Declaration”
• “Introduction: Object, Image, Type, and the Conduct of Life” in Martha Banta, Imaging American Women, Idea and ideals in Cultural History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987), 1-39.
• “American Girls and the New Woman” (same), 45-91.
• “Looking for the “Best” Type” (same), 92-139.
• “Introduction; Attending to Marginality: The New Woman, the New Woman Novel, and the History of Modernism” in Ann L. Ardis, New Women, New Novels; Feminism and Early Modernism (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), 1-9.
• “Preliminaries: Naming the New Woman” (same), 10-28.
• “The Romance Plot: New Women, New Plausibilities” (same), 59-82
• “Turning the Century, Writing New Histories” (same), 167-176.
• “Erotomania” in (same), 83-114.
• “The New Woman,” in Lyn Pykett, The Improper Feminine, The Women’s Sensational Novel and The New Woman Writing (London & New York: Routledge, 1992), 137-157.
• “Feeling, motherhood and True Womanhood” (same), 158-163.
• “Woman’s ‘affectability’ and the literature of hysteria” (same), 164-176.
• “Who was the New Woman?” in Sally Ledger, The New Woman, Fiction and Feminism at the fin de siecle (Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 1997), 9-34.
• “The New Woman in the modern city” (same),150-176.
• “The daughters of decadence?” (same), 94-121.
• “Charged with ambiguity: the image of the New Woman in American cartoons” by Angelika Köhler in Ann Heilmann and Margaret Beetham eds., New Woman Hybridieties, Femininity, feminism and international consumer culture, 1880-1930 (London & New York: Routledge, 2004), 158-178.
• “The birth of national hygiene and efficiency: women and eugenics in Britain and America 1865-1915” by Angelique Richardson (same), 240-262.
• “The day of the girl: Nell Brinkley and the New Woman” by Trina Robbins in (same), 179-189.
• “‘Natural’ divisions/national divisions: whiteness and the American New Woman in the General Federation of Women’s Clubs” by Jill Bergman (same), 223-239.
• “The New Woman,” by Lois Rudnick in Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick eds., 1915, The Cultural Moment, The New Politics, the New Woman, the New Psychology, the New Art & the New Theatre in America (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991), 69-81.
• “The New Woman as Cultural Symbol and Social Reality: Six Women Writers’ Perspectives” by Elizabeth Ammons (same), 82-97.
• “The New Woman and the New Sexuality” by Ellen Kay Trimberger (same) 98-115.
• “Jig Cook and Susan Glaspell: Rule Makers and Rule Breakers” by Robert K. Sarlós (same), 250-259.
• “The Single Woman” in John C. Spurlock and Cynthia A. Magistro. New and Improved. The Transformation of American Women’s Emotional Culture. (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), 53-86.
• “The Flapper Wife” (same), 87-116.
• “The New Era and the New Woman: Lou Henry Hoover and “Feminism’s Awkward Age”” by Kendrick A. Clements. Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 73, No. 3 (August 2004), 425-462.
• “Athletic Fashion, "Punch", and the Creation of the New Woman” by Tracy J. R. Collins. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Fall 2010), 309-335.
• “"The Life of a Bachelor Girl in the Big City": Selling the Single Lifestyle to Readers of Woman and the Young Woman in the 1890s” by Emma Liggins. Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Fall 2007), 216-238.
• “"Why Marry?": The "New Woman" of 1918” by Judith L. Stephens. Theatre Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, Insurgency in American Theatre (May 1982), 183- 196.