| Course Title: Advanced Seminar: 'Desperate Housewives in 19th- through early 20th-century American Literature' |
| Start Date: 08/24/2020 End Date: 10/15/2020 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2020 |
| Description: This course will explore visual and literary images of nineteenth through early 20th-century marriage and motherhood. Discussion of Virginia's Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' and Barbara Welter's essay 'The Cult of True Womanhood' will serve as the springboard for our focus on representations of women in the home. We will incorporate a visit to the art museum, and will analyze film adaptations of some of the texts we read. The course will focus primarily on American literature, film, and art, with the exception of Ibsen's A Doll's House; selected written texts will include works by writers such as Hawthorne, James, Stowe, Gilman, Freeman, Chopin, Hurston, and Wharton. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Leah Glasser | 413-538-2855 | lglasser@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc. | Monday | 09:45AM - 11:00AM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc. | Tuesday and Thursday | 09:30AM - 11:15AM | Weekly | ||
| 08/24/2020 - 10/15/2020 | Flex. Immersive Seminar/Disc. | Wednesday and Friday | 10:15AM - 11:15AM | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: 8 credits from the English department. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| MOD0001 | MOD-1: Courses meeting in Module 1 | This course meets in Module 1. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| ENGL-373DH-01 Housewives in American Lit. |
| GNDST-333DH-01 Housewives in American Lit. |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 19 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: A Room of One's Own Author: Woolf, Virginia Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780156787338 Publisher: HMH |
Required | 13.99 |
| Title: A Doll's House Author: Ibsen, Henrik Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780140441468 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 11.00 |
| Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Hurston, Zora Neale Copyright: 1938 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0878910530 Publisher: various |
Required | 10.00 |
| Title: Yellow Wallpaper Author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0486298574 Publisher: Dover |
Required | 2.50 |
| Title: The Awakening and Selected Stories Author: Chopin, Kate Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780142437322 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 8.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: My hope is to have each of these texts as e-book links on Moodle |