ENGL 230 - Women in Modern Literature

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University of Richmond

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Modern woman's search for identity and struggle for self-realization through study of selected figures from 19th- and 20th-century literature. Prerequisite(s): English 103 with a grade of C or better or exemption. General Education Requirement: (FSLT) Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course examines literary representations of the modern woman's search for identity and struggle for self realization. It begins with two major questions: Do women write differently than men Do women read differently than men Because the novel is central to women's literary history, the course focuses on fiction and the changing nature of narratives by women. As literary critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis has pointed out, "Once upon a time, the end, the rightful end, of women in novels was social - successful courtship and marriage - or judgmental of sexual and social failure; death." As an example of such conventions, the course begins with a novel by either Jane Austen or Emily Bront , then moves to early modernists such as Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Zora Neale Hurston, who critique the romance tradition, and finally to writers such as Virginia Woolf, Amy Tan, Barbara Kingsolver, Danzy Senna, Penelope Lively, and Josephine Humphreys, who experiment with new literary forms, new endings, and new definitions as they examine women in untraditional roles.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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