Sexual Politics in American Women's Literature

3 credits

Nineteenth-century America was a period of transition in marriage, family life, and sex roles - a period striklingly similar to our own. By exploring the representation of gender in the fiction of Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Fanny Fern, Chopin, and Glaspell, we will explore the sexual politics in such a society. ***Prerequisite: ENGL 100 and either ENGL 110 or completion of 48 credit hours.***