Spring 2005 Tuesday/Thursday

Working Schedule

1-6: Intro to class; Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 1-17

1-8:

          Margery Kempe 45

          On Female Celibacy 46

          Chapter 4. Her Temptation to Adultery 48-50

          Amelia Lanyer 82

          Salve Dues Rex Judaeorum  82

          To the Virtuous Reader 84

          Eve’s Apology in Defense of Women

          FLTC:  Introduction, 293-299

1-13 Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 123-144

         Ann Bradstreet 144-146

         The Prologue 147

           The Author to Her Book 152

           A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment 153     

          For Deliverance from a Fever 156

          Here Follows Some Verses 158

1/15   Aphra Behn 178

         The Willing Mistress 180

          Love Armed 180

          The Disappointment 181

          On Her Love Two Equally 184

          To the Fair Clarinda 185

          Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (extra credit)

          FLTC:  de beauvoir 299

    1/20  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 266   

      Saturday – The Small Pox 268

      Epitaph 270

      An Answer to a Love Letter in Verse 270

      Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband 271

          Abigail Adams 315

         Letters to John Adams 316

 Man is a Dangerous Creature 316

           Remember the Ladies 317

         Absolute Power over Wives 319

         FLTC: Ellman 323

1-22:

         Mary Wollstonecraft 370

        A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 373

        Introduction 374

         Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates 388

         Montagu 266

         Epitaph 270

         An Answer 270

         Epistole 271

         FLTC:  Chodorow 367

1-27: Literature of the Nineteenth Century 407

          Rebecca Cox Jackson 489

          Gifts of Power 490

          A Dream of Slaughter 490

          The Dream of the Cakes 491

          The Dream of Washing Quilts 491 

       Elizabeth Barrett Browing 521

         Aurora Leigh 542

          Book I 542

          Book II 547

          Book V 549

          A Curse for a Nation 551

Extra Credit:  full text of Aurora Leigh

1-29: Margaret Fuller 558

          Woman in the Nineteenth Century 560

          Prejudice against Women 560

          The Future of Women 567

          Harriet Jacobs 460

          Incidents in the life of a slave girl 461

          The Loophole of Retreat 461

           Preparations for Escape 463

FLTC:  Cixous 414    

2-3  Christina Rossetti 1076

        Dead before Death 1081

       Cobwebs 1082

        Shut Out 1082

        A Triad 1083

        Goblin Market 1089

        Rebecca Harding Davis 1105

         Life in the Iron Mills 1105

2-5 Turn-of-the-Century Literature 1157

          Alicia James 1230

          My Hidden Self 1234

          This Long Slow Dying 1235

           Physical Pain 1236

           Final Entry by Katharine P. Loring 1237

           Perkins 1388

         "The Mother's Charge" 1391

          "Why I wrote" 1403

 2/10     Johnson 1414

               "A red Girl's Reasoning"     

FLTC:  Gilbert and Gubar 448

  2-12: Early Twentieth Century Literature 1

          Amy Lowell 128

          The Letter 129

          Madonna of the Evening Flowers 131

          On T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound 133

           Virginia Woolf 212

           A Room of One’s Own 237

2-17: Anne Spencer 258

          Letter to My Sister 260

          Innocence 261

          Anna Wickham 1265

          Meditation at Kew 265

          The Affinity 266

          Divorce 267

          Dedication of the Cook 267

         H.D. 280

         Sea Poppies 284

         Garden 285

          Helen 291

          FLTC:  Kolody 473

2/19 EXAM I

2-24: Marianne Moore 307

          Poetry 311

          His Shield 318

          O to Be a Dragon 318

          Zora Neal Hurston 347

          How it Feels to be Colored Me 357

           FLTC:  Baym 503

2-26: Edna St. Vincent Millay 444

          First Fig 1502 Second Fig 445

          O, oh you will be sorry for that word! 1445

          I, Being born a woman and distressed 446   

         Women have loved before as I love now 453         

          Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies 454

          Apostrophe to Man 455

          Rendezvous 455

          The Fitting 456

          I too beneath your moon, almighty sex 457

          The Courage that my Mother had 457

          Dorothy Parker 487

        Resume 487 

        News Item 488

        Song of One of the Girls 488

        A Pig’s – Eye View of Literature 489

        The Lives and Times of John Keats, etc. 489

        Gordon Noel, Lord Byron 1556

        Harriet Beecher Stowe 489

        D.G. Rossetti 489

        The Waltz 1557   

       FLTC:  Tompkins 514

3-3: Louise Bogan 504

        Medusa 505

        Women 506

        Cassandra 506

        Evening in the Sanitarium 507

        The Dream 509

       Later Twentieth Century Literature 553

 3/5 Stevie Smith 580

       Papa Love Baby 580

      This Englishwoman 581

       Lord Barrenstock 581

       Dear Female Heart 582

       Human Affection 583

       Lightly Bound 1585

       Not Waving but Drowning 585

       How Cruel is the Story of Eve 585

       Mary McCarthy 630

       Memories of a Catholic Girlhood 631

   FLTC:  Showalter 527

3-10: Tillie Olson 659

          Tell Me a Riddle 660

          Judith Wright 722

          Half Caste Girl 723

          The Sisters 724

          To Another Housewife 726

          Eve to Her Daughters 726

           Some Words 733

          Counting in Sevens 734

 3-12   Gwendolyn Brooks 780

          The Mother 781

          A Song in the Front Yard 782

         The Sundays of Satin Legs Smith 782

          The Womanhood 786

          The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till     789

Doris Lessing 809

One Off the Short List 810

 Spring Break

 Spring Break

3-24: Nadine Gordimer 873

          The Moment 874

           Zimmerman 551

          Denise Levertov 1 859

          Hypocrite Women 862

          The Ache of Marriage 863

           The Son 864

           Divorcing 869

FLTC:  Wittig 544

3/26 Anne Sexton 918

          Her Kind 919

          The Moss of His Skin 920

          House Wife 921      

          Sylvia’s Death 923

          In Celebration of My Uterus 924

          Maya Angelou 926

          I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 926

          FLTC:  Hooks 701

3-31 Adrienne Rich 962

          Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers 1955

          Snapshots of a daughter-in-law 965

          Final Notations 975

          In Those Years 977

          To the Days 977

         Sylvia Plath 1044

         The Arrival of the Bee Box 1052

         Stings 21053

         The Swarm 1054

         Ariel 1059

         Words 1064

          Edge  1065

4-2 MAJOR ESSAY DUE

 Audre Lorde 1069

          Coal 1070

          Now That I Am Forever With Child 1072

          Kitchen Linoleum 1075

         The Electric Slide Boogie 1075

          Fleur Adcock 1078

          For a Five-year-old  1079

        Against Coupling 1080

        Margaret Atwood 1203

        This is a Photograph of Me 1204

        Spelling 21205

        There Was Once 1217

        The Little Red Hen Tells All 1219

    FLTC:  Butler 708

   4/7  Maxine Hong Kingston 1228

          No Name Women  1229

       Sharon Olds 1278

          The Language of the Brag 1279

          Rite of Passage 1280

          The One Girl at the Boys’ Party 1281

          This 1281

          The Mortal One 1282

           Louise Gluck 1283

           IWidows 1285

           Terminal Resemblance 1286

         FLTC:  BORDO 744

   4/9 Alice Walker 1295

           In Search of Our Mother’s Garden 1296

         Jamaica Kincaid 1339

            Girl 1339

           metaphor

 4/14  METAPHOR

Thursday, April 16, 8:00-9:30

FINAL EXAM