ENGL 22600 - Twentieth-Century British Women Writers

Institution:

Ithaca College

Subject:

English

Description:

PREREQUISITES: One course in the humanities or social sciences or sophomore standing. OBJECTIVES: This course will explore a wide range of fiction, drama, poetry written by twentieth-century women. Some of our texts will be formally innovative, some explicitly political, some quite popular; many will be an adventurous combination of convention, rebellion, and diversion. Our discussion will commence with the New Woman (a figure who straddled the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and defied the Victorian cult of domesticity), and we will read our way through the changing literary articulations of femininity and feminism, towards our own new century. In this course, we will listen closely not only to the historical conditions out of which these texts arose and how our writers speak to (and about) one another, but also to how style, form and genre bear on the representation of marriage, sexuality, religion, parenthood, authority, and the expression of identity.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ithaca.edu

Phone Number:

(607) 274-3011

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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