American Utopia at the Turn of the 20th Century - AAA500320

• Title: Americké utopie přelomu 20. století
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALB007A
• Guarantor: Mgr. Pavla Veselá, Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAALB007A

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
To explore the most productive era of utopian literature in American history by studying three major works: Edward Bellamy?s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888), Jack London?s Iron Heel (1908), and Charlotte Perkins Gilman?s Herland (1915).

MATERIAL
Bellamy, Edward. ?How and Why I Wrote Looking Backward.? America as Utopia. Ed. Kenneth Roemer. New York: Burt Franklin, 1981.
-----. Looking Backward 2000-1887. 1888. New York: Signet, 2000.
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland. 1915. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Hausman, Bernice L. ?Sex before Gender: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Evolutionary Paradigm of Utopia.? Feminist Studies 24.3 (Fall 1998).
Khouri, Nadia. ?Utopia and Epic: Ideological Confrontation in Jack London?s The Iron Heel.? Science Fiction Studies 9.3 (July 1976).
Kumar, Krishan. ?Utopianism Ancient and Modern? and ?Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America.? Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
London, Jack. The Iron Heel. New York: Macmillan, 1908.
Pfaelzer, Jean. ?Edward Bellamy and the Progressive Utopia.? The Utopian Novel in America 1886-1896: The Politics of Form. Pittsburg: Pittsburg UP, 1984.

ASSESSMENT
Active class participation, one oral presentation, one final paper (3000-4000 words)

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