ENGL 280

Fall 2013 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 26-Dec 11

Women Writers

Credit: 3 hours.

Study of British and American women authors.

Same as GWS 280. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 280 class schedule data for fall 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39491	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	English Building	Bauer, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/13-12/11/13 Section Title: US Women Writers 1910-2013 Section Info: Topic Section M: U.S. Women Writers, 1910-2013 This course examines 20th- and 21st-century US women?s writing in a variety of forms, and our emphasis will be on conceptions of cultural and literary history, including style and social reform. We will focus on how literary works are simultaneously products of one author?s imagination and also participate in a set of historical norms, shaped by the cultural anxieties to which the author, in turn, responds. This survey of American women?s writing will include the following themes: women and identity, sexuality and social norms, and family and work. We will start with women?s writing in the 1910s and move, decade by decade, into the present. Thus, this class will take a historical and cultural approach to US women?s writing, as well as illuminating various literary methodologies. The reading list will include canonical and noncanonical readings from various genres?poetry, memoir, comedy, radical and conservative novels?in order to demonstrate both formal and thematic concerns in representative women?s texts.