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Academic Year 2000/2001

19th-Century American Utopias
HIST 330 SP
Crosslistings:
RELI 330
WMST 330
AMST 333
Clusters:
Christian Studies

This seminar will examine expressions, both religious and secular, of the utopian impulse in American culture. Communitarian experiments launched by Shakers, Mormons, Transcendentalists, Perfectionists, and feminists will be studied as manifestations of social and religious turmoil and will be compared with their literary analogues.

MAJOR READINGS

Brooke, THE REFINER'S FIRE
Hawthorne, THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
Guarneri, THE UTOPIAN ALTERNATIVE
Kern, AN ORDERED LOVE: SEX ROLES AND SEXUALITY IN VICTORIAN UTOPIAS
Hayden, THE GRAND DOMESTIC REVOLUTION
Humez, MOTHER'S FIRST-BORN DAUGHTERS
Nordhoff, THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES
Edward Bellamy, LOOKING BACKWARD
Gilman, HERLAND
Stein, THE SHAKER EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

A brief class presentation and a substantial research paper will be required of each student. Participation in discussion will be reflected in the final grade.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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