Rice University
Fall, 1997
ENGLISH 283:

WOMEN WRITERS FROM 1400 TO 1900

10-11 MWF

Dr. Jane Chance

READINGS

• Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, ed. Voicing Medieval Women: An Anthology of Texts By, About, and For Women in the Middle Ages (Text and Cassette) The Chaucer Studio (1996)
• Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, trans. Clifton Wolters, Penguin (1966)
• Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, ed. B. A. Windeatt, Penguin (1985)
• Derek Pearsall, ed. The Floure and the Leafe, The Assembly of Ladies, The Isle of Ladies, Medieval InstitutePublications (1990)
• Katherine Rogers and William McCarthy, ed. Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers, NAL/Dutton (1987)
• Aphra Behn, The Rover, ed. Anne Russell, Broadview Literary Texts (1994)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women, ed. Carol Postan, Norton Critical Edition (1975; rpt.1995)
• _____________, Maria, Norton Editions (1994)
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus ,eed. D.L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, Broadview Literary Texts (1994)
• Jane Austen, Emma, ed. Ronald Blythe, Viking Penguin (1966)

Films (On Reserve):

• Chris Newby's "Anchoress" (1993) PN1997.A5341993
• "Clueless" (1994) (modern adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma"
• Kenneth Branagh's "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" (1994)

Requirements:

• 3 exams, one 5-page paper
• Distribution Course: Group I

Syllabus:

Week One

• Sept. 3 W Introduction

I. Middle Ages and Renaissance

• Sept. 5 F Voicing Medieval Women, pp. 32-47, 70-74

Week Two

• Sept. 8 M Julian of Norwich
• Sept. 10 W
• Sept. 12 F Margery Kempe

Week Three

• Sept. 15 M
• Sept. 17 W The Floure and the Leafe
• Sept. 19 F Showing of Chris Newby's "Anchoress" (1993) (108 mins)

• Sept. 22 M The Assembly of Ladies (in Pearsall)
• Sept. 24 W Voicing Medieval Women, pp.140-41
• Sept. 26 F Showing of Chris Newby's "Anchoress" (1993) (108 mins.) (cont.)

Week Five

• Sept. 29 M Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, and Amelia Lanyer (hand-outs)
• Oct. 1 W Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, and Jane Lead (hand-outs)
• Oct. 3 F Examination #1

II. Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Week Six

• Oct. 6 M Aphra Behn (1640-1689), The Rover
• Oct. 8 W
• Oct. 10 F

Week Seven

• Oct. 13 M Anne Finch (1641-1720), Countess of Winchilsea, in Rogers and McCarthy, pp. 77-111
• Oct.15 W
• Oct.17 F Mary Astell (1666-1731), pp 112-141

Week Eight

• Oct. 20 M Mid-term Break
• Oct. 22 W Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1683-1762), pp. 171-224
• Oct. 24 F Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)

Week Nine

• Oct. 27 M
• Oct. 29 W Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria (1798)
• Oct. 31 F

Week Ten

• Nov. 3 M Examination #2

III. The Nineteenth Century

• Nov. 5 W Showing of Clueless
• Nov. 6 T Lecture by margaret Ezell
• Nov. 7 F Showing of Clueless

Week Eleven

• Nov.10 M Jane Austen, Emma (1816)
• Nov.12 W
• Nov.14 F Film on "Jane Austen"

Week Twelve

• Nov. 17 M
• Nov. 19 W
• Nov. 21 F

Week Thirteen

• Nov.24 M Mary Shelly, Frankenstein (1818), Showing of "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
• Nov. 26 W Showing of "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
• Nov. 28 F Thanksgiving Vacation

Week Fourteen

• Dec. 1 M
  PAPER DUE (5 pp.)
• Dec. 3 W
• Dec. 5 F

Week Fifteen

• Dec. 8 M
• Dec.10 W Examination #3

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