2017-2018-1

AM-MA-D7-1

_Szeminárium, _Gyakorlati jegy

AM-MA-D7, Challanges to the American Literary Canon

AM-MA-D7, Challenges to the American Literary Canon

Angol-Amerikai Intézet (BTK Bölcsészettudományi Kar)

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Week 1: introduction, Anne Bradstreet: domestic poetry
Week 2: Mary Rowlandson: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Week 3: Lydia Maria Child: Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times
Week 4: Susan Warner: Wide Wide World
Week 5: Louisa May Alcott: Little Women
Week 6: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Pink and White Tyranny
Week 7: midterm test
Week 8: Harriet A. Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert
Week 9: Emily Dickinson: the theme of death in her poetry
Week 10: Sarah Orne Jewett: The Country of the Pointed Firs
Week 11: Kate Chopin: The Storm, Susan Glaspell: Trifles
Week 12: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland
Week 13: Willa Cather: My Ántonia, summing up
Week 14: final test

List of works:

Baym, Nina. “Between Enlightenment and Victorian: Toward a Narrative of American Women Writers Writing History” in Critical Inquiry, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Autumn, 1991), 22-41.
Buell, Lawrence. “The Extra. Literary History Without Sexism? Feminist Studies and Canonical Reconception.” in American Literature, Vol. 59, No. 1 (Mar., 1987), 102-114.
Eldred, Janet Carey and Peter Mortensen. ““Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue”: Female Civic Rhetoric in Early America” in College English, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Feb., 1998), 173-188.
Guruswamy, Rosemary Fithian. “Queer Theory and Publication Anxiety: The Case of the Early American Woman Writer” in Early American Literature, Vol. 34, No. 1 (1999), 103-112.
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. “Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender” in American Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Mar., 1990), 7-34.
Gebhard, Caroline. “The Spinster in the House of American Criticism” in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 10, No. 1, Redefining Marginality (Spring, 1991), 79-91.
Haefner, Joel. “(De)Forming the Romantic Canon: The Case of Women Writers” in
College Literature, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jun., 1993), 44-57.
Harris, Sharon M. “Contemporary Theories and Early American Literature” in Early American Literature, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1994), 183-189.
Harris, Sharon M. “Transnational Paradigms as Feminist Lenses” in Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2009), 649-651.
Harris, Sharon M. “Whose Past Is It? Women Writers” in Early America in Early American Literature, Vol. 30, No. 2 (1995), 175-181.
Jarenski, Shelly. “The Voice of the Preceptress: Female Education in and as the Seduction Novel” in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 37, No. 1, The University (Spring, 2004), 59-68.
Karcher, Carolyn L. “Reconceiving Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Challenge of Women Writers” in American Literature, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), 781-793.
Kilcup, Karen L. ““I Like These Plants That You Call Weeds”: Historicizing American Women's Nature Writing” in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 58, No. 1 (June 2003), 42-74.
Logan, Lisa M. “The Importance of Women to Early American Study: A Social Justice Perspective” in Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2009), 641-648.
Pryse, Marjorie. “Literary Regionalism and Global Capital: Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers” in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 23, No. 1, Where in the World Is Transnational Feminism? (Spring, 2004), 65-89.
Schweitzer, Ivy. ““My Body / Not to Either State Inclined”: Early American Women Challenge Feminist Criticism” in Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2009), 405-410.
Foster, Frances Smith. “The Personal Is Political, the past Has Potential, and Other Thoughts on Studying Women’s Literature: Then and Now” in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Vol. 26, No. 1, The Silver Jubilee Issue: What We Have Done & Where We Are Going (Spring, 2007), 29-38.
Stover, Johnnie M. “Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Autobiography as Social Discourse: The Example of Harriet Ann Jacobs” in College English, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Nov., 2003), 133-154.
Weyler, Karen A. “A Different Feminist Scholarship: Research Challenges in Eighteenth-Century America” in Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2009), 417-421.
Weyler, Karen A. “Literary Labors and Intellectual Prostitution: Fanny Fern’s Defense of Working Women” in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), 96-131.
Ammons, Elizabeth. Conflicting Stories. American Women Writers at the Turn into the Twentieth Century. Oxford:Oxford University Press, 1992.: “Introduction” 3-19.
“Finding Form: Narrative Geography and The Country of the Pointed Firs” 44-58.
“The Limits of Freedom: The Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, and Pauline Hopkins” 59-85.
“Art: Willa Cather, the Woman Writer as Artist, and Humishuma” 121-139.
Kilcup, Karen L. ed. Soft Canons. American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999.: “How Conscious Could Consciousness Grow? Emily Dickinson and William James” by Susan Manning, 306-332.
“Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs” by Stephen Matterson, 82-98.
“The Conversation of “The Whole Family”: Gender, Politics, and Aesthetics in Literary Tradition” by Karen L. Kilcup, 1-26.
“Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender” by Susanne Opfermann, 27-47.
Belsey, Catherine and Jane Moore. “Introduction: The Story So Far.” 1-15. In The Feminist Reader. Ed. Catherine Belsey and Jane Moore. Blackwell, Malden, 1997.
Spender, Dale: “Women and Literary History.” (same) 16-25.
Beer, Gillian. “Representing Women: Re-presenting the Past.” (same) 77-90.
Showalter, Elaine: “A Literature of Their Own.” 448-450. In Women’s Studies. Essential Readings. Stevi Jackson ed. New York University Press, New York. 1993.
Pratt, Annis. “Archetypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction.” (same) 450-454.
Friedman, Susan Stanford. “Creativity and the Childbirth Metaphor. Gender Difference in Literary Discourse.” (same) 371-396.
Schweickart, Patrocino P. “Reading Ourselves. Toward a Feminist Theory of Reading.” (same) 525-550.