Resource Author
Prof. Lisa MooreResource Description
E316K Fall 2004 Unique Numbers 32525-32560
Masterworks of Literature: British
Women’s and Gender Studies Emphasis
TTH 8:00-9:30 a.m. MEZ 1.306
Professor Lisa Moore
Office: Parlin 217 Office hours: MW 1:00-2:30 Office phone: 471-1837
e-mail: llmoore@mail.utexas.edu
SYLLABUS
Week I: Introduction: Women Writers
9/1: Please read Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (G&G 1338) before the first lecture.
Week II: Medieval and Renaissance Writers
9/6: Julian (all selections), Kempe (all selections)
9/8: Elizabeth I (all selections), Lanyer, “Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum” (41), Whitney (all selections)
Take-home Test #1 posted to Blackboard by 5 p.m. Friday.
Week III: Special Topic: Women and Religion
9/13: The Education of Shelby Knox (film to be screened in class)
9:15: discussion of film
Take-home Test #1 due in section.
Take-home Test #2 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week I: Royalist and Puritan Writers
9/20: Behn, Oronooko (117)
9/22: Bradstreet, “Prologue” (83), “Queen Elizabeth” (84), “The Author to Her Book” (88); Wheatley (all selections)
THT #2 due in section.
THT #3 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week V: The Revolutionary and Victorian Eras
9/27: Wollstonecraft (all selections), Adams (all selections), Williams (all selections)
9/29: Truth (all selections); Fuller (407); Stowe, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (444); Jacobs (all selections)
THT #3 due in section.
THT #4 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week VI:
10/4: Brontë, Jane Eyre (472-532)
10/6: Brontë, Jane Eyre (533-784)
THT #4 due in section.
THT #5 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week VII
10/11: Dickinson, “Wild Nights” (249); “There’s a certain Slant of light” (860), “I felt a Funeral” (861), “I’m Nobody” (862), “The Soul selects” (862), “There came a day” (863), “Before I got my eye put out” (864), “After great pain” (865), “Good morning—Midnight” (867), “Much Madness” (867), “I heard a Fly buzz” (869), “Tell all the Truth” (881), “Rearrange” (1737)
10/13: Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1133)
THT #5 due in section.
No test posted to Blackboard this week.
Week VIII: Modernism
10/18: Woolf (all selections)
10/20: Stein, “Picasso” (1297), “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” (1300); Dunbar-Nelson (all selections), Bonin, “The Trial Path” (1311)
No take-home test due this week.
THT #6 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Conference #1 in TA’s office this week.
Week IX: Special Topic: Women and War
10/25: Millay, Aria de Capo (1515)
Final Group Presentation #1 in lecture
10/27: Regret to Inform (film to be screened in class)
THT #6 due in section.
THT #7 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week X: Postwar Writers
11/1: Brooks, “Sundays” (1789), “Bronzeville” (1794), “We Real Cool” (1796)
Plath, “Mirror” (2084), “Bee Meeting” (2084), “Daddy” (2091), “Lazarus” (2098)
Atwood, “Photograph” (2216), “Spelling” (2216), “Once” (2228), “Hen” (2230)
11/3: Yamamoto (1834), Angelou (1916), Kingston (2239)
THT #7 due in section.
THT #8 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Sign up for a Final Group Project topic on Blackboard by the time your section meets this week.
Week XI: Special Topic: Abortion and Reproductive Rights
11/8: Laing, “Prayer of an Ovulating Female” (1629); Brooks, “the mother” (1788); Ozick, “The Shawl” (1922); Graham, “Concerning the Right to Life” (2338)
11/10: When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories (film to be screened in class)
THT #8 due in section.
THT #9 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
One-page FGP proposals due in section.
Week XII: Contemporary North American Writers
11/15: Anzaldua (2271), Cervantes (all selections), Erdrich (2354)
11/17: Sula
THT #9 due in section.
THT #10 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday.
Week XII
11/22: Sula
11/24: THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Week XIV
11/29: Rich, “Tigers” (1955), “Wreck” (1960), “Love Poems” XI, Floating, XXI (1962-3), “Awaken” (1980)
Hacker (all selections)
Brown (2368)
Postcolonial Writers
12/1: Head (2140), Aidoo (2271), Emecheta (2301)
THT #10 due in section.
No test posted to Blackboard this week.
FGP presented in section this week.
Week XV
12/6: Gordimer (1854), Das (2125), Mukherjee (2253)
12/8: Wrap-up discussion
No take-home test due this week.
THT #11 posted to Blackboard by 5 pm Friday. Due in your TA’s office by 10 am Wed. Dec. 14.
Conference #2 in your TA’s office this week.
FGP presented in section this week.