ENGL 280

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Women Writers

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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 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39491	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	303 English Building	Bauer, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Section Info: What do American women writers want? How do they write? This survey of American women’s writing will include the following themes: sexuality and social norms, identity, and family and work. We will start with women’s writing in the 1910s and move, decade by decade, into 2018, taking both a historical and cultural approach to US women’s writing. The reading list will include canonical and noncanonical readings from various genres--poetry, memoir, comedy, drama, radical and conservative novels--in order to demonstrate representative women’s texts from the last 100 years. 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 desires and anxieties to which the author responds. Authors for this semester will include Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Angelina Weld Grimke, Dorothy Parker, Fannie Hurst, Zora Neale Hurston, Meridel Le Sueur, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich, Marya Hornbacher, Roxane Gay, and Sloane Crosley.