ENGL/WMST 364

Reading and analysis of literature by or about women. The course intends to familiarize students both with major women writers and with ways in which women have been portrayed in literature. Attention will also be paid to the develpment of a female literary tradition. The course's emphases are aesthetic and thematic; the texts will be examined both as works of art and as social documents depicting women's experience. The course should be of interest both to English majors and to students majoring in other fields. Prerequisite: a 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.

• Norton Anthology of Literature by Women [NALW], 2nd edition, ed. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar. We will read several stories, essays, and a play, as well as the following three novels contained in the anthology:
  
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
  • The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  • Sula - Toni Morrison

• The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
• Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
• Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
• Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy

• See also supplementary and optional readings on reserve at Kuhn library.

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