2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Nov 18, 2024

2024-2025 Academic 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 English majors, this course satisfies the B-1 requirement.

Prerequisites: Writing placement or IDND 018

Course Designation/Attribute: VE, WE

Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year