MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CLS2570

Writing women

Pauline Nestor

Synopsis 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% + Two exercises (1500 words each): 25% each + 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
• Gilman C P The yellow wallpaper Virago
• 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 OUP