2022-2023 Academic Catalog

Jul 07, 2025

2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 234 - Virginia Woolf

Most famous as a novelist and a feminist, Virginia Woolf was also an essayist, a pacifist, a biographer, an anti-imperialist, and a diarist. In this class, we will read Woolf in multiple genres, delving into the relationship between literary form and political thought, and exploring her theorization of everyday life. As we read chronologically through her major novels and literary and cultural criticism, students will take a self-directed path through her essays and letters, highlighting connections between her life and her work, as well as recurring ideas and images. Above all, we will follow her advice on how to read a book, to “open your mind as widely as possible.”

For English majors, this course satisfies the D-3 requirment. For undergraduate English majors, this course also counts toward the Specialization in British Literature or the Specialization in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

For English minors, this course counts as a 200-level English seminar.

Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually