Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

( ΛΕ172) -  Ευτέρπη Μήτση

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

The course will investigate stories by and about women in the long eighteenth century (1688-1815), focusing on questions of authority and authorship, as well as on issues of gender, race and class. Although in the past decades, scholars have rediscovered an extensive corpus of women’s literature and have reconsidered women’s participation in political and social transformations in Britain and abroad, it is still a challenge to move beyond the traditional narratives of female empowerment and disempowerment as an approach to women’s writing. The course aims to introduce students to the narratives of British women writers in the long eighteenth century by examining a diverse range of genres, prose fiction, letters, journals, essays and travel writing, and reflecting on the interplay between fiction and life writing.

 

Exploring the differences in women’s experiences, we will read selected texts from the remarkable output of British women writers in that period, focusing on shifts from satire to sensibility and from domesticity to the gothic. We will discuss constructions of gendered and racial difference and themes such as romance, domesticity, feminism and anti-feminism, slavery, colonialism and education in the context of women’s involvement in literary culture and women’s literary history.

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Δευτέρα 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2025