The following required or recommended essays and books are on reserve for your convenience at Kuhn Library [L] and/or in the Women's Studies office, Fine Arts 452 [W]:

Nina Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors." [L,W (also online)]

Mary Wilkins Freeman, "A New England Nun." [L,W (also online)]

-----, "The Revolt of Mother." [L,W (also online)]

Joseph Gibaldi and Walter S. Achtert. "Documenting Sources." [Taken from MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 3rd edition] [L,W]

-----, "List of Works Cited." [Taken from MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 3rd edition] [L,W]

-----, "Use of Quotations." [Taken from MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 3rd edition] [L,W]

Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979, chap. 1 and 2. [L,W]

Margaret Homans, "Her Very Own Howl: The Ambiguities of Representation in Recent Women's Fiction" (also in Signs, 9, No. 2 (1983), 186-205). [L, W]

Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle." [L,W (also online]

Jean E. Kennard, "Convention Coverage or How to Read Your Own Life," New Literary History, 13 (1981), 69-88. [L,W]

Adrienne Rich, "Jane Eyre: The Temptations of a Motherless Woman." [L,W]

Elaine Showalter (ed.), The New Feminist Criticism. New York: Pantheon, 1985. [L]

Ann Douglas Wood, "'The Fashionable Diseases': Women's Complaints and Their Treatment in 19th-Century America." [L,W]

Virginia Woolf, "Women and Fiction." [L,W]

[L] = on reserve at Kuhn Library
[W] = on reserve at Women's Studies office (FA 452)