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La femme écrivain par elle-même au 19ème siècle : Aurora Leigh (1857) d'Elizabeth Barrett Browning et Histoire de ma vie (1854-55) de George Sand
Women writing about themselves in the 19th century : Aurora Leigh (1857) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Histoire de ma vie (1854-55) by George Sand
Faculté de gestion: Faculté des lettres
Responsable(s): Valérie Cossy
Intervenant(s): -
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Séminaire
Semestre d'automne
2 heures par semaine
28 heures par semestre
Langue(s) d'enseignement: anglais, français
Public: Oui
Crédits: 0
Polycopiés: Oui
Objectif
Making students familiar with the dimension of gender as it affects the literary field, relying in this instance on George Sand and Elizabeth Barrett Browning to assess what it meant to be a writer in the 19th century in France and the UK.
Contenu
You may think that 19th-century reading habits were very different from ours and you would be right. Histoire de ma vie by George Sand (an autobiography in 4 parts and 57 chapters plus conclusion) and Aurora Leigh, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in verse about a female poet (in 9 books and almost 11'000 lines) may well seem alien to the way we nowadays consume culture and artefacts. Yet it is the aim of this class to introduce students to gender and its implications for women of the 19th century on the basis of the testimonies left by two particularly famous writers of the time. While being a woman in the public place was synonymous with transgression, both George Sand and Elizabeth Barrett Browining thought it necessary to devote their talent to stating what it meant to be then a woman and a writer.
Bibliographie
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, ed. by Kerry McSweeney, Oxford World's Classics, 2008. George Sand, Histoire de ma vie, Présentation de Damien Zanone, Paris, GF, 2001. Both books available now from Basra