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課程名稱 |
鍍金年代小說
NOVELS OF THE GILDED AGE |
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開課學期 |
98-2 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 外國語文學研究所 |
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授課教師 |
李欣穎 |
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課號 |
FL7183 |
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課程識別碼 |
122 M5260 |
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學分 |
1 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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備註 |
初選不開放。專題研究。
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：1人 |
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核心能力關聯 |
本課程尚未建立核心能力關連 |
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課程概述 |
The purpose of this course is to provide an enlarged context of the new commercial-industrial reality in the Gilded Age. The aim is to supply a critical background of business activities and class formation in nineteenth-century America. We will read and discuss novels written by Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, and William Dean Howells. We will look into the emergence of a commodity culture and the life of the middle class in each text. In its extended coverage of texts, the course offers an in-depth consideration of the materialized culture and class consciousness, including changing attitudes toward land, the growing gulf between rich and poor, the idea of conspicuous consumption, and the effect in general of capitalist values. As we move back and forth from text to context, we can better understand these works through the social-economic milieu of this era.
評量方式
40% oral presentations
60% final report
課程進度
第1 週
Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age
Hilkey, Judy Arlene. Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
第2週
Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age
Barth, Gunther Paul. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in
Nineteenth-century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
第3週
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Zheng, Da. Moral Economy and American Realistic Novels. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
第4 週
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy
Dietrichson, Jan W. The Image of Money in the American Novel of the Gilded Age. New York: Humanities Press, 1969.
第5 週
Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier
Flory, Claude Reherd. Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792 to 1900. New York: Russell & Russell, 1969.
第6 週
Dreiser, Theodore. The Financier
Wilson, Christopher P. White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American Literature, 1885-1925. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
第7 週
Dreiser, Theod |
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課程目標 |
To read more extensively representative novels of the Gilded Age and studies on its social-economic background in search of a possible master’s thesis topic, and to produce a feasible thesis proposal by the end of the term. |
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課程要求 |
Weekly meetings with the instructor to discuss the books listed in the reading list. The student should keep research notes on her readings and present them to the instructor at each meeting with an oral report on her progress. A final report in the form of a thesis proposal is due by the end of the term.
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參考書目 |
Working Booklist
Alkana, Joseph. The Social Self: Hawthorne, Howells, William James, and Nineteenth-century
Psychology. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Barth, Gunther Paul. City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-century America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American
Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Beer, Thomas. The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century. New York:
Carroll and Graf Publishers, 1997.
Borus, Daniel H. Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1989.
Dietrichson, Jan W. The Image of Money in the American Novel of the Gilded Age. New York:
Humanities Press, 1969.
Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. 1949. New York: Pocket Books, 1927.
---. Sister Carrie. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.
---. The Financier. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1940.
Fienberg, Lorne. A Cuckoo in the Nest of Culture: Changing Perspectives on the Businessman in the
American Novel, 1865-1914. New York: Garland Pub., 1988.
Flory, Claude Reherd. Economic Criticism in American Fiction, 1792 to 1900. New York: Russell &
Russell, 1969.
Gleason, William A. The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840-1940. Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 1999.
Gutman, Herbert George. Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American
Working-class and Social History. New York: Vintage Books, 1977.
Hilkey, Judy Arlene. Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1997.
Howells, William Dean. A Hazard of New Fortunes. New York: New American Library, 1965.
---. The Rise of Silas Lapham. New York: Norton, 1982.
Lang, Amy Schrager. The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-century. N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 2003.
Smith, Susan Harris and Melanie Dawson. The American 1890s: a Cultural Reader. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2000.
Spindler, Michael. American Literature and Social Change: William Dean Howells to Arthur Miller.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
Trachtenberg, Alan. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. New York:
Hill and Wang, 1982.
Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Wilson, Christopher P. White Collar Fictions: Class and Social Representation in American
Literature, 1885-1925. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
---. The Custom of the Country. New York: Norton, 1990.
---. The House of Mirth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Zheng, Da. Moral Economy and American Realistic Novels. New York: P. Lang, 1996.
Zunz, Olivier. Making America Corporate, 1870-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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