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課程名稱

維多利亞女性圖像
WOMEN AS ICONS IN VICTORIAN ART AND LITERATURE

開課學期

98-2

授課對象

文學院外國語文學研究所

授課教師

吳雅鳳

課號

FL7185

課程識別碼

122EM5280

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

選修

上課時間

上課地點

備註

初選不開放。本課程以英語授課。專題研究.
限碩士班以上
總人數上限：2人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/982women_as_icons

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核心能力關聯

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課程概述

The second half of nineteeth century England witnesses a trend of representing women as icons, carrying the original religious meaning across the divides between high-brow literature/ fine art and popular culture. This course seeks to investigate the various formulations of women in the entangled discours of culture, politics, economics, literature and arts.

課程目標

This course is an independent study with a view to faciliating students' writing of their thesis proposals. It is open to designated students only.

課程要求

Weekly reading and tutorial.
The end result is thesis proposal and getting ready for qualifying exam.

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

備註： Weekly tutorial arranged between students and professor.

指定閱讀

Please see selected bibliography.

參考書目

Anderson, Amanda. Tainted Souls and Painted Face: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. London: Cornell UP, 1993.
Andres, Sophia. The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel: Narrative Challenges to Visual gendered Boundaries. Columbus: Ohio State U P, 2005.
Architects for a new age : the Gothic revival to the arts & crafts movement, 1827 to 1927. London: The Fine Art Society : In association with Haslam & Whiteway Ltd, 2008.
Armstrong, Isobel. “Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shalott’: Victorian Mythography and the Politics of Narcissism.” The sun is God: painting, literature, and mythology in the nineteenth century. Ed. J.B. Bullen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Arts and crafts movement: style icons. New York: TODTRI, c2002.
Auerbach, Nina. Women and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge: Harvard, 1982.
Barreca, Regina. Sex and Death in Victorian Literature. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.
Blakesley, Rosalind P. The arts and crafts movement. London: Phaidon, 2006. [NK1140 B59 2006]
Bryden, Inga. Reinventing King Arthur: the Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Bullen, J. B. The Pre-Raphaelite Body: Fear and Desire in Painting, Poetry, and Criticism. Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
Digby, Anne. “Women’s Biological Straitjacket.” Sexuality and Subordination. Ed. Susan Mendus and Jane Rendall. London: Routledge, 1989. 192-220.
Dowling, Linda. The Vulgarization of Art. Charlottesville: U of Virginia, 1996.
Fenster, Thelma S., ed. Arthurian women. New York: Routledge, 2000, c1996.
Fontana, Ernest. “Pre-Raphaelite Suicides.” Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies 7 (1998): 28-38.
Fox, George Patrick. Fashion: the Power That Influences the World: the Philosophy of Ancient and Modern Dress and Fashion. New York: American News, 1871.
Frost, Ginger S. Promises Broken: Courtship, Class, and Gender in Victorian England. UP of Virginia, 1995.
Gates, Babara T. Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1988.
Granger, Tracy. “The handicraft ideal of nineteenth century England and the industrial age.” (Ph. D. dissertation on Art and Crafts Movement.)
Greensted, Mary, ed. An anthology of the arts and crafts movement: writings by Ashbee, Lethaby, Gimson and their contemporaries. Aldershot : Lund Humphries, 2005.
Harrison, Antony H. Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1998.
Hasseler, Terri A. “Mr. Punch’s Crinoline Anxiety: The Indian Rebellion and the Rhetoric of Dress.” Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism. Ed. Graeme Harper. London: Continuum, 2002. 117-39.
Hodder, Karen. “The Lady of Shalott in Art and Literature.” Mendus 60-88.
Holloway, Lorretta M. and Jennifer A. Palmgren, eds. Beyond Arthurian Romances: the Reach of Victorian Medievalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Humble, Nicola and Kimberley Reynolds. Victorian Heroines: Representations of Femininity in Nineteenth-century Literature and Art. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
Kellehear, Allan. A Social History of Dying. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007.
Kortsch, Christine Bayles. Dress Culture in Late Victorian Women's Fiction: Literacy, Textiles and Activism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
Kunzle, David. Fashion & Fetishism: Corsets, Tight-Lacing & Other Forms of Body-Sculpture. Stroud: Sutton, 2004.
Loeb, Lori Anne. Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian women. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987.
Matthews, Alison Victoria. “Aestheticism’s True Colors: The politics of Pigment in Victorian Art, Criticism, and Fashion.” Women and British Aestheticism. Ed. Talia Schaffer and Kathy Alexis Psomiades. London: U P of Virginia, 1999.
Munich, Arienne Auslander. Andromeda’s Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art. New York: Columbia U P, 1989.
Nead, Lynda. Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988.
Nunn, Joan. Fashion in Costume, 1200-2000. 2nd edition. Chicago: New Amsterdam Books, 2000.
Pal-Lapinski, Piya. Defiant odalisques: Exoticism, resistance and the female body in nineteenth century fiction. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1997, 217 pages. (abstract only)
Pal-Lapinski, Piya. The exotic woman in nineteenth-century British fiction and culture: a reconsideration. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, c2005.
Pearce, Lynne. Woman / Image / Text: Readings in Pre-Raphaelite Art and Literature. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991.
Peterson, Linda H. “Tennyson and the Ladies.” Victorian Poetry 47.1 (Spring 2009: 25-43.
Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism and the Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988.
Poovey, Mary. Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation 1830 – 1864. London: U of Chicago P, 1995.
Poulson, Christine. The Quest for the Grail: Arthurian Legend in British Art 1840-1920. Manchester 1999.
Reina, Lewis. “‘Oriental’ femininity as cultural commodity: authorship, authority, and authenticity” (book article) Edges of empire : orientalism and visual culture. Ed. Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub., 2005. 師大
Rhodes, Kimberly. Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.
Ruskin, John. Selected Writings. Ed. Dinah Birch. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Saunders, Corinne, ed. A companion to romance : from classical to contemporary. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2004.
Silver, Anna Krugovoy. Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.
Skoblow, Jeffery. Paradise dislocated : Morris, politics, art /. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Small, Helen. Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Weathers, Rachel. “The Pre-Raphaelite Movement and Nineteenth-Century Ladies’ Dress: A Study in Victorian Views of the Female Body.” Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites: The Anglo-American Enchantment. Ed. Margaretta Frederick Watson. Brookfield: Ashgate, 1997.
Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky. Ruskin's Mythic Queen: Gender Subversion in Victorian Culture. Ohio: Ohio UP, 1998.

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Participation	40%
2.	Proposal	60%

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週		General survey: cultural formation of femininity
第2週		Images of women in literature I
第3週		Images of women in literature II
第4週		Images of women in literature III
第5週		Gender, culture and materialism I: Ruskin
第6週		Gender, culture and materialism II: Morris
第7週		Images of women in art I
第8週		Images of women in art II
第9週		Images of women in art III
第10週		Discourse of the Exotic
第11週		Myth and the Romance Tradition I
第12週		Myth and the Romance Tradition II
第13週		Fashion and Material culture I
第14週		Fashion and Material culture II
第15週		Pale Ladies of Death I
第16週		Pale Ladies of Death II; Proposal due
第17週		Interview on Proposal