English 372
Feminine RealitiesNOTE: This is representative of the syllabi for this course. It is not necessarily the syllabus being used in any one semester.
course goals
During the 19th and 20th centuries in England and America, industrialization was transforming the world, forcing historical relations between classes to change and forcing individuals to reexamine their religious beliefs in the light of new scientific knowledge. At the same time, Americans and Britons were renegotiating gender roles within the family, rethinking their educational system, and justifying and occasionally questioning their society's imperialism. In this course, we will explore the role that
literature by (and in one case about) women played in reflecting, articulating, and negotiating these changes.
We will read novels by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zora Neale Hurston, Amy Tan, and Ann Tyler.
Since writing played such a large role in negotiating cultural change, we'll also spend some time thinking about our own writing. We will look at ways that writing can be a tool for thinking and producing knowledge, and at ways to make your individual writing process more productive. I hope that you will also learn to do some working and thinking as groups as well as individuals, by talking together and teaching each other.
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