UNIVERSITATEA CREŞTINĂ DIMITRIE CANTEMIR

FACULTATEA DE LIMBI SI LITERATURI STRĂINE

Programul de studii de licență: Limbă și Literatură
Denumirea cursului: American Women’s Fiction in the Nineteenth Century

Anul III, semestrul al II-lea

Prof. univ. dr. Ramona Mihăilă

ramona.mihaila@ucdc.ro

1. Gender studies and gender stereotypes in 19th century prose

2. Perspectives upon femininity in American 19th century society
3. Women’s Roles in the 19th century short stories
4. Ways of characterizing female characters in novels
5. Representations of womanhood during the transition from romanticism to realism
6. Women writers “entering professional authorship in ever-increasing numbers” and forging a new
female tradition
7. Women’s status with special emphasis on the transition from rural/agrarian to urban/industrial ways
and life values
8. “Marriage and family life” (women as mothers, daughters, wives, sisters);
9. “Work” (women in the paid workforce and women’s unpaid work in the household economy),
interracial marriages
10. Religion” (women as churchgoers, reformers, missionaries, and preachers)
11. “Education” (from women with almost no access to formal education to women in leading roles as
teachers and college administrators, and women in professions such as medicine, the law and the
ministry)
12. “Politics and Reform” (women’s active roles in politics and reform)
13. Slavery”: (women slaves, the experience of freedom);
14. “Literature and the Arts” (an increasing number of women writers and artists who laid the foundations
of an American women’s tradition of literature and the arts)

A. BIBLIOGRAFIE OBLIGATORIE/MINIMALĂ:
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle’s Tom Cabin
Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (by An American)
Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Mary Wilkins Freeman, A New England Nun
B. BIBLIOGRAFIE SUPLIMENTARĂ:
Bauer, Dale and Phillip Gould, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth- Century American Women’s Writing,
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Baym, Nina. Women’s Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America 1820-1870. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 1984.
Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America. Berkley: University of
California Press, 1990.
Collins, Gail. America’s Women, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
Harris, Susan K. Nineteenth Century America Women’s Novels: Interpretative Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1990.
Kilcup, Karen L. ed. Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers, Blackwell Publishers, 1998
Radway, Janice. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy and Popular Culture. University of North Carolina
Press, 1984.
Romines, Ann. The Home Plot. Women, Writing and Domestic Ritual. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press,
1992
Samuels, Shirley, ed. The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth Century America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.