IC 202 - HUM/WCH Visualizing Women in 19th Century Western Art and Literature

4.00 credits.

(Humanities Core Course and Western Cultural Heritage Core Course)
During the nineteenth century, as women began to enter the public sphere and demand equal participation in society, new images emerged in the literature and the fine arts of Britain, France, and the United States: the goddess, the fallen woman, the femme fatale, the working woman, the “new woman,” and the “Oriental” or a colonized woman. The course will explore these representations in their social context using concepts such as “body,” “virtue,” “power,” “transgression,” “danger,” and “liminality.”