Studies in British Literature, 1789 to 1890: Gender, Literature and Medicine in the Victorian Era: Madwomen and Hysterics
Studies in British Literature, 1789 to 1890: Gender, Literature and Medicine in the Victorian Era: Madwomen and Hysterics
ENGLSH 2208
Section 02
Semester
Fall
Year
2023
Ariel Fried
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
1:00-1:50
Course Description
Cross listed with WGST 2005
This multi-genre course will survey Victorian texts alongside contemporary feminist, gender studies, and queer studies scholarship to examine how gendered relations of power became deeply entangled with medical assumptions, experiences, diagnoses, and treatments during this period.