FF:AJ24050 British Women Writers - Course Information
AJ24050 British Women Writers 17th to 19th Centuries
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2007
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Věra Pálenská, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek - Timetable
- Fri 13:20–14:55 G22
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- This course will concentrate on the works of women writers from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian period not included in the survey courses dealing with these periods. The interpretations and analyses of the works will be based on extensive home reading: Aphra Behn: Oroonoko; Fanny Burney: Evelina; Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Jane Austen: Emma; Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
- Syllabus
- This course will concentrate on the works of women writers from the Restoration to the Mid-Victorian period not included in the survey courses dealing with these periods. The interpretations and analyses of the works will be based on extensive home reading: Aphra Behn: Oroonoko; Fanny Burney: Evelina; Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Jane Austen: Emma; Anne Brontë: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall; George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
- Literature
- SHATTOCK, Joanne. The Oxford guide to British women writers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, 493 s. ISBN 0192800213. info
- BLAIN, Virginia, Patricia CLEMENTS and Isobel GRUNDY. The feminist companion to literature in English :women writers from the middle ages to the present. London: B.T. Batsford, 1990, xvi, 1231. ISBN 0-7134-5848-8. info
- MOI, Toril. Sexual/textual politics : feminist literary theory. London: Routledge, 1985, xv, 206. ISBN 0415029740. info
- GILBERT, Sandra M. and Susan GUBAR. The madwoman in the attic :the woman writer and the nineteenth-century literary imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, xiv, 719 s. ISBN 0-300-02596-3. info
- BEER, Patricia. Reader, I married him : a study of the women characters of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. London: Macmillan, 1974, ix, 213 p. ISBN 0-333-15067-849. info
- Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Seminář; hodnocení: aktivní účast, prezentace, závěrečný esej. / Seminar; Assessment: class contribution, presentations and a final essay.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
Credit evaluation note: 2 původní kredity.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět si nemohou zapsat studenti Bc. studia AJ
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2007, recent)
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