ENGL 398

Fall 2012 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 27-Dec 12

Honors Seminar III

Credit: 3 hours.

Major British, American, and Anglophone authors. Each seminar considers one or two major authors.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 398 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30161	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -12:50PM	T	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Enlightenment Feminism(s) Section Info: Topic Section P: Eliza Haywood and Enlightenment Feminism(s) This course will focus on the major writings produced by one of the most widely-read women writers in eighteenth-century England, with the primary goal of understanding the different forms that early feminist discourse could take: what would it have meant to be a ?feminist? in the generations after the Glorious Revolution (1689), when the potentially egalitarian political ideals of Locke (and others) suggested that personal industry and merit should enable any person to rise in the world, and when the official end of censorship made it possible for more and more writers to publish and to engage in socially consequential public debate? To give ourselves a broader sense of the cultural contexts within which Eliza Haywood developed her influential perspective on England?s gender system, we?ll begin by reading some of the works of Mary Astell (often referred to as England?s ?first feminist?) against the popular tradition of paternalistic conduct-books and essay-periodicals from the 1680s to the 1710s. The second section of the course will situate Haywood?s subversive periodicals and her amatory fictions in relation both to Astell?s work and to Samuel Richardson?s moral-realist fiction of the 1740s. Finally, the third section of the course will read the influence of Haywood and Astell into the work of Mary Wollstonecraft (in the 1790s), with some reference to the gender theories of male writers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Edmund Burke. Requirements: regular participation, informal journal responses, short presentations, two short essays, and one longer seminar paper.