ENGL 280

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

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 spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	49539	Online	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	n.a.	Baron, I	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Info: SP23 ENGL 280, Iryce Baron - TOPIC: "Now You Are Mine Forever": Women as Property in 19th-Century Fiction - In Suzanna Rowson’s transatlantic novel, Charlotte Temple, the English rake, John Montraville, quickly falls in love with the young ingenue Charlotte, whispering to her “ Now you are mine forever” as he forces her into his carriage promising to take her off to America to marry her. But Montraville’s seductive words resonate in a far more sinister and nuanced way for both Charlotte and for most women who lived after her throughout the 19th century. In this course, we will focus on women as familial property owned by their fathers, brothers and husbands throughout the 19th century in Britain and America and the role that they were forced to assume as second class citizens due to the ongoing retention of patriarchal laws regarding status, wealth and property ownership. During this period when the Industrial Revolution was in full swing and the economic structure of Britain and America was moving from an agrarian culture to one based on manufacturing, many men on both sides of the Atlantic attained new social roles, creating an affluent entrepreneurial middle class. Despite the shift in educational prospects and jobs for men, women were forced into increasingly more submissive roles that virtually imprisoned them within the bounds of the household. Without the legal ability to assume ownership over their minds and bodies, women were often more constrained than they were in the 18th century, reducing them to dress and behave like domestic angels who wished for nothing more than to be eye candy for men, to keep house for them and to bear their children without any access to contraception or to their own monetary assets. As we shall see, even queer women and women rallying for suffrage were forced into this submissive role. Students are expected to attend class regularly and to actively participate in class discussions. In addition, students will be required to write three to four papers. Novels and novellas may include: Charlotte Temple, Mansfield Park, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, Carmilla, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Awakening and The Yellow Wallpaper.