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Students have a differentiated understanding of US-American frontier literature that takes into account historical, ethnic, genderrelated, environmental and geopolitical contexts.

In this course, we retrace the American frontier in narrative fiction by women authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. We will examine different figurations of the frontier and their ethnic and racial, natural and ecocritical, industrial and geopolitical dimensions. We will read (excerpts of) the following works: Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok (1824); Catharine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827); Caroline Mathilda Kirkland, A New Home - Who’ll Follow?(1839); The 
Shirley 
Letters:
 From
 the 
California 
Mines 
(1851-52); Rebecca Davis Harding, “Life in the Iron Mills” (1868); Mary
 Austin, The 
Land
 of 
Little
 Rain (1903); Willa
 Cather,
My Àntonia 
(1918); Laura
 Ingalls 
Wilder,
Little
 House
on
 the
 Prairie
(1935).

presentations, discussions, reading, and writing assignments 

active participation, presentation, research paper 

A list of required readings will be distributed in the first session of class.

positive completion of compulsory modules 10, 11 and 12