2019-2020 Academic Catalog

Nov 21, 2024

2019-2020 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 133 - Women Writers I

Examines how women writers before 1900 address, confront, avoid, subvert and question traditional notions of gender, culture, domesticity, history, ethnicity and sexuality. Close attention is paid to textual reading, the historical and intellectual context of works, and different critical approaches to women’s writing. Authors include Behn, Burney, Austen, Sedgwick, Chopin, Gilman, Foster and Wilson. For undergraduate English majors and minors, this course satisfies the Historical Sequence (B-1) requirement. Meets the Verbal Expression (VE) requirement.

Course Designation/Attribute: VE

Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year