- Docente: Lilla Maria Crisafulli
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Letterature moderne, comparate e postcoloniali (cod. 0981)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Lo studente possiede conoscenze approfondite sulla scrittura femminile nella letteratura inglese. Conosce e sa utilizzare le metodologie pratiche per l'analisi e l'interpretazione del testo letterario
Contenuti
Title of the course: English Romantic Women's writing: resistance and agency
The course will examine the relationship between genre and gender in the Romantic age, through the reading and analysis of texts written between the end of the XVIII and the beginning of the XIX century. Starting from Elizabeth Inchbald's play, The Massacre (1792) and going through Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818), the course will end with a close reading of Letitia Elizabeth Landon's poem The Factory (1835). After an introduction to the Romantic literary framework and to the critical and theoretical approach to women's works, different positions and contributions of such authors as Elizabeth Inchbald, Mary Shelley and L.E.L. will be analysed. Passages from the selected texts will be discussed in relation to the different genres they belong to, with particular attention to the various forms of discourse and languages through which female bodies and identities were shaped and conveyed. What will be also explored is the way in which women writers of the romantic period contributed and responded to the political issues of the time and to the gender discourse that was under construction.
In the current academic year, this course is related to other courses, within the degree programme of the European Master GEMMA, that also engage with the macro concepts “Identity, alterity, difference, diversity”.
Testi/Bibliografia
Primary sources
E. Inchbald The Massacre (1792)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)
L.E.L. Landon, 'The Factory' (1835)
Critical reading:
L. M. Crisafulli and K. Elam (a cura di), Manuale di Letteratura e Cultura Inglese, Bononia University Press, 2009 (some chapters), (Biblioteca di Lingue)
L.M. Crisafulli and G. Golinelli, Women's Voices and Genealogies in Literary Studies in English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019
Catherine B. Burrough, Women in British Romantic Theatre: Drama, Performance and Society, 1790-1840, Cambridge University Press, 2000
Lilla Maria Crisafulli and Keir Elam (eds), Women's Romantic Theatre and Drama: History, Agency, and Performativity, Ashgate, 2010
George Levine and U. C. Knopflmacher eds. The Endurance of Frankenstein: essays on Mary Shelley's Novel, Berkley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 1979.
Carol M. Devison and Marie Mulvey-Roberts eds., Global Frankenstein, Palgrave (2018)
L.M. Crisafulli and C. Pietropoli, Romantic Women Poets: Genre and Gender, Rodopi, 2007
Metodi didattici
The course will be organized on seminar base, encouraging students to participate in class discussion. Presentation and discussion of written essays
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Students will be asked to present papers in class and will be also assessed on the basis of their performance. The final exam will consist in one or two written essays and an oral discussion.
Attendance and class partecipation will also be assessed as the component of the final overall mark.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Audio-visual equipment; Power-Point Projection; texts, photocopies and other documents will be provided during the course.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Lilla Maria Crisafulli