Writing women
P Nestor
8 points * 2 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
The subject provides a general survey of women's literature. It will consistently question and explore the concept of `the difference of view'. In addition the subject will consider texts under various groupings, such as rebels and dutiful daughters, feminising romantic mythology, the Victorian female Gothic, the woman artist, the `new woman' and her vision, female culture and society, and feminist ideology and writing.
Assessment
Essay (3000 words): 50% * One class paper: 20% * One exercise (1500 words): 30% * Students whose written work and participation are satisfactory will be excused an examination
Prescribed texts
Austen J Persuasion OUP
Bronte C Villette Penguin
Dickinson E The final harvest Little Brown
Eliot G The mill on the Floss OUP
Olsen T Tell me a riddle Virago
Plath S Ariel Faber
Rich A Dream of a common language Norton
Shelley M Frankenstein OUP
Walker A The color purple Women's Press
Wollstonecraft M Mary and The wrongs of woman OUP
Woolf V A room of one's own and Three guineas OUP