Studies in British Literature, 1789-1890: "Madwomen and Hysterics"
Studies in British Literature, 1789-1890: "Madwomen and Hysterics"
ENGLSH 2208
Section 02
Semester
Fall
Year
2024
Ariel Fried
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
2:00-2:50pm
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 become deeply entangled with medical assumptions, experiences, diagnoses, and treatments during this period.