Legacy Course Catalog
ENGL 657M - Masculinity And 19th-Century American Literature
| Effectivity: | 01/07/2008 - 05/03/2008 @ Purdue West Lafayette Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lec |
| Usually Offered: | fal spr sum |
| Short Title: | Masculinity&19C Am Lit |
| Description: | This course is designed as a reading-and-research seminar and will be appropriate for any student whose current or future dissertation work may involve the theoretical study of masculinity, the critical study of 19th-century American literature, or both. We will take a broadly-defined approach to theories of masculinity with readings drawn from a range of fields including: LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual, Transgender, Queer Studies), Critical Race Studies, American and African American Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology. We also will examine several recent (and, in some cases, not so recent) works of literary criticism that address aspects of masculinity or manhood in 19th-century America (e.g. sentimentality, intimacy, heterosexuality, homosexuality, homosocial bonding, fatherhood, marriage, divorce, bachelorhood, violence, national identity, imperialism). Given time constraints, most of the primary texts we cover will be of the shorter variety-poems, essays, autobiographical narratives, short stories, novellas-but we will include some novels as well. Students would benefit from prior coursework in or exposure to 19th-century American literature, but such experience is not a prerequisite. The writers and poets whose work we'll study may include: James Fenimore Cooper; Lydia Maria Child; selected Fireside Poets (Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier); Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Margaret Fuller; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Jacobs; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Walt Whitman; Emily Dickinson; Frances E.W. Harper; Henry James; William Dean Howells; Edith Wharton; Stephen Crane; Jack London; Charlotte Perkins Gilman; and W.E.B. Du Bois. |
| School: | College Of Liberal Arts |
| Department: | English |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | YES |
| Temporary Flag: | YES |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
