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This course will cover three major upheavals and their impact on culture and society in nineteenth century Britain and America, namely:
(1) The Era of Revolutions: In a the relatively short period of less than one century, three revolutions, namely industrialization, the French Revolution—inspired, in part, by the American Revolution of 1776--and what might be termed a "revolution in human understanding," the new concept of human nature that began with Wordsworth and was developed by Freud, transformed literature, culture and society in both Britain and America.
(2) The changing roles of women: slavery, early feminism, the Women's Suffrage movement and the "New Woman," that is the career woman will be explored in autobiographical and literary texts.
(3) Colonial expansion and its impact on nineteenth century ideas about race, class and gender.
A reader will be provided and students should purchase Henry Rider Haggard's She or read it online. Texts will include poems of William Blake and William Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Emerson, and excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. |
