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08/23
Course Introduction
Critical Background: Virginia Woolf, From "A Room of One’s Own" (1338-1344); Alice Walker, "In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens" (2315-2322); Gloria Anzaldśa "Tlilli, Tlapalli/The Path of the Red and Black Ink" (2270-2280).
08/30
Precursors: Poems by Sappho of Lesbos (handout); Book of Genesis 1-3; Book of Ruth; Book of Judith 8-16 (Bible of your choice); Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, "Abraham" (handout); Aristotle, Galen, and Isidore of Seville (handout).
09/06
The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Introduction (1-14); Julian of Norwich (14-18); Margery Kempe (18-24)
Queen Elizabeth I, "Speech" (27, 29); Aemilia Lanyer (40-44).
Project Due.
09/13
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Introduction (63-80); Jane Lead, From "A Fountain of Gardens" (97-101); Katherine Philips, poems (101-105); Mary Rowlandson (105-109).
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (109-111, 117-161)
09/20
Delarivier Manley, From "The New Atlantis--The New Cabal" (180, 183-188); Mary Astell, From "A Serious Proposal" (188-189, 190-193); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "Saturday" and "To the Countess of Bute" (193-196, 202-205).
Anna Letitia Barbauld, poems (224-228); Abigail Adams, "Remember the Ladies" (228, 230-231); Charlotte Smith, poems (234-241); Phillis Wheatley, poems (246-250); Mary Wollstonecraft, From "A Vindication" (255-275)
09/27
The Nineteenth Century: Maria Edgeworth, "The Grateful Negro" (304-318); Dorothy Wordsworth, From "The Grasmere Journals" (318-325).
Jane Austen, Love and Freindship [sic] (328-349).
10/04
Rebecca Cox Jackson, From "Gifts of Power" (349-353); Mary Shelley, "Introduction to Frankenstein" (353-360); Margaret Fuller, From "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" (407-420);
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poems (373-406); Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, From Cranford (420-437).
Project Due.
10/11
Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre (468-784)
10/18
Harriet E. Adams Wilson, From Our Nig (851-855); Christina Rossetti, poems (892-918); Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, "Old Woman Magoun" (1101-1114).
Emily Dickinson, poems and letters (855-892)
10/25
Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills (918-944)
Constance Fenimore Woolson, "Miss Grief" (979-993); Alice James, From "The Diary" (996-1002); Henry Handel Richardson, "Two Hanged Women" (1200-1203).
Project Due.
11/01
Edith Wharton, "The Angel at the Grave" (1149-1162).
The Early Twentieth Century (1205-1227); Virginia Woolf, "Moments of Being" (1314-1318, 1334-1338); Gertrude Stein, "Picasso," "Ada," and "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" (1275-1277, 1297-1303).
11/08
Mina Loy, poems and prose (1360-1366); Radclyffe Hall, "Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself" (1394-1407); Djuna Barnes, "How It Feels" (1526-1530); Meridel Le Sueur, "Annunciation" (1586-1594).
The Later Twentieth Century (1595-1617); Nadine Gordimer, "Town and Country Lovers" (1854-1861); Flannery O’Connor, "Good Country People" (1879-1893).
Project Due.
11/15
Toni Morrison, Sula (1993-2072)
Audre Lorde, poetry and prose (2127-2134).
11/22
Caryl Churchill, Top Girls (2152-2202)
Maxine Hong Kingston, "No Name Woman" (2239-2247); Bobbi Ann Mason, "Wish" (2247-2253); Bharati Mukherjee, "The Management of Grief" (2253-2265).
11/29
Marilyn Hacker, poems (2280-2287); Leslie Marmon Silko, "Yellow Woman" (2327-2334); Rita Dove, poems (2342-2346).
12/06
Project V: Resources in Women's Culture.
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