Předmět Americká beletrie a ideologie domestikace žen (AJ25049)

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This course examines the cultural aims of domestic fiction (also commonly referred to as sentimental fiction). Written primarily by female authors, it was the bestselling literature in Victorian America. In particular, we’ll endeavor to interpret the domestic “angel” broadly, as a nineteenth-century icon “housebound” yet not necessarily “housebroken.” Is the sentimental ingenue simply the submissive mouthpiece of bourgeois discipline or can we read her as a guardian of humanistic values against the instrumental social relations of the emerging market economy? In what sense does the sentimental novel construct the feminine “domestic sphere” as a radical alternative to the “male” world of politics and capital, transferring moral authority from public to private life? Along with fiction, we will consider domestic ideology as a widespread cultural phenomenon, reflected in the guidebooks, magazines, architecture, and political movements of the period. We will also read several so-called “anti-domestic narratives.” This comparatist approach will allow us to consider what genres can be identified in part as reactions to domestic ideology (the Gothic plot, the detective tale, the “linguistic turn” modernism). Can we view competing genres as a backlash against the evangelical imperatives of sentimental literature or do they also reveal surprising influences from the domestic plot?Literature to be selected from:Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1840-1860A New-England Tale (excerpts), Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 1822The Wide, Wide World (excerpts), Susan Warner, 1850The Architecture of Country Houses, Andrew Jackson Downing, 1850Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852The Curse of Clifton (excerpts), E.D.E.N. Southworth, 1852The Lamplighter (excerpts), Maria Cummins, 1854Our Nig, Harriet Wilson, 1859Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet Jacobs, 1861The American Woman’s Home (excerpts), Catherine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1869“The Black Cat,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1843“Ligeia,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1838“Loss of Breath,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1832“The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe, 1841“The Mystery of Marie Roget,” Edgar Allan Poe, 1842Pierre, Herman Melville, 1852The Spoils of Poynton, Henry James, 1897The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851Critical Readings to be selected from:The Feminization of American Culture, Ann Douglas, 1977Woman’s Fiction, Nina Baym, 1978Empire of the Mother: American Writing About Domesticity, Mary P. Ryan, 1982Confidence Men and Painted Women, Karen Halttunen, 1986Sentimental Designs, Jane Tompkins, 1985“Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America,” Richard H. Brodhead, 1988Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America, Gillian Brown, 1992Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish, 2000“Poe’s Genre-Crossing: From Domesticity to Dectection,” Bonita Rhoads, 2008

Garant

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.

Vyučující

Bonita Rhoads