2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 260 - Studies in 18th-Century British Literature

Type of Course: Seminar
Making Gender through the 18th-Century NovelGender roles became more clearly defined in the eighteenth century. This course traces the construction of masculinity and femininity through the discourses of sexuality, sensibility, and sociability in the eighteenth-century British novel. Through contemporary theory on the construction of subjectivity, sexuality and gender, we will examine the popular forms of the 18th-century novel—adventure, domestic, romance, and pornographic—to understand the ways in which these texts helped to shape perceptions of gender socially and culturally. A student may take this seminar more than once, as long as the topic for the course is different. For undergraduate English majors this course satisfies the Period (C-2) requirement.

Cross Listed: ENG 360 , WS 260 

Instructor: Ms. Kasmer

When Offered: Offered every other year with different topics. Offered 2010-2011

Faculty: Lisa Kasmer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English