ENGL 30633 - Medieval and Early Modern Women Writers

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Texas Christian University

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Prerequisites: ENGL 10803 or 10833, ENGL 20803 and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL course. The development of beliefs about women's roles and characters and the ways these beliefs were accepted, challenged, or discredited. Authors studied are writers of prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, biography, letters, religious visions. They may include Christine de Pizan, whose Book of the City Ladies (1405) attempts to counteract the negative view of women, and Aphra Behn, whose Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1688) questions hierarchizing of people according to gender, ethnicity, religion, and class.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.tcu.edu/

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(817) 257-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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