Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: WOMEN OF THE NIGHT: COURTESANS AND PERFORMERS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class examines the uneasy relationship between historical French actresses and courtesans and the authors and artists who imagined them. Through portrayals of real and fictional women performers in literature, painting, memoirs, and other media, we examine the culture of nineteenth-century France and discuss theories of gender, identity, and representation.