Seminar: Women Writers and the American Short Story in the 19th Century - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

Seminar: Women Writers and the American Short Story in the 19th Century - Vertiefungsmodul - Details

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Course name Seminar: Women Writers and the American Short Story in the 19th Century - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.04629.02, ANG.04630.02
Semester SoSe 2026
Current number of participants 25
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date Tuesday, 02.06.2026 10:00 - 12:00, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This seminar examines classic and lesser-known short stories by women writers in 19th-century America. We will begin our seminar with an overview of the genre and historical contexts (e.g., genre theory, canon formation, print and magazine culture), before we look at specific periods and topics: such as, early women short fiction (e.g., Catharine Maria Sedgwick, “Cacoethes Scribendi,“ 1830; Lydia Maria Child, “The Quadroons,” 1842); working-class and social reform literature (stories by Rebecca Harding Davis and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper); (Gothic) regionalism (e.g., Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford’s “Circumstance,” 1860; Sarah Orne Jewett, “The White Heron,” 1886); indigenous and ethnic voices (e.g., Zitkála-Šá, “The Soft-Hearted Sioux,” 1901). We will cover a broad range of issues, including race, class, and gender, as well as environmentalism, Civil War era, genre theory, canon formation, and the emergence of magazine culture.

Required texts:
Course material will be made available on the ILIAS platform.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: Women Writers and the American Short Story in the 19th Century - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 23.03.2026, 00:00 to 26.04.2026, 23:59.