GWS 280

Fall 2018

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Women Writers
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 280. See ENGL 280.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
39526
Lecture-Discussion
Q
12:30PM -1:45PM
TR
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.
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