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GENG 221 - Gender and Literature - Fall 2011

Class Information:

Instructor: Julie Sorge Way

Office Hours: Keezell 412 – MWF 12:10-1:20, 4:30-5:00

Contact: geng221 (at) gmail.com

Class Meets: Burruss 0034 – MWF 3:35-4:25

  

Required Texts:

    

Great Poems by American Women ISBN 9780486401645

Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ISBN 9780316184137

Women and Fiction (Ed. Cahill) ISBN 9780451528278

    

Lysistrata by Aristophanes ISBN 9780486282251

The Awakening and Other Stories by Kate Chopin ISBN 9780199536948

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf ISBN 9780156628709

    

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ISBN 9780140071078

The Color Purple by Alice Walker ISBN 9780156028356

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel ISBN 9780618871711



Suggested Textbooks:

    

Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot ISBN 9780141196893

Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte ISBN 9780141040387

Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen ISBN 9780141040349

 


Course Files:




Links:



Chopin - The Awakening - some good background info via VCU


Emily Dickinson's Life - brief biographical notes by Crumbley and Eberwein

Emily Dickinson Timeline - Interactive timeline of her life

DIckinson Manuscripts - Images, including her letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Dickinson's Handwritten Poems - how the manuscripts have been preserved

Video Tour of The Homestead - Dickinson's house in Amherst, MA
 
 
"A Worn Path" - Welty short story, full text at The Atlantic Monthly website
 
Mrs Dalloway - full searchable e-text
 
London Map - charting the travels in Mrs Dalloway
 
Character List - for Mrs Dalloway
Important Due Dates:

Critical Paper 1 – Oct 7

Midterm exam – Oct 17

Critical Paper 2 – Nov 14

Project proposal – Nov 16

Projects/Presentations – Dec 2-9

Final exam – Wed Dec 14 1:00pm-3:00pm



 
 
Course Calendar (current unit):

 

UNIT FOUR: Women’s Voices Today

 

Week 11

MON 11/7:

Tillie Olsen  “I Stand Here Ironing” from Women and Fiction p. 207-218

Write: SRP

 WED 11/9:

Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle p. 1-105

Write: SRP

 FRI 11/11:

Shirley Jackson – We Have Always Lived in the Castle p. 107-214

Write SRP

Week 12

 MON 11/14:

Alice Walker – The Color Purple p. 1-176

Paper Two Due. No SRP is due.

 WED 11/16:

Alice Walker – The Color Purple p. 177-288

Write: SRP

 FRI 11/18:

Group Day – No classroom meeting of this class. Instead, meet with your novel groups for the project/presentation on your own time or during what would be our class time. No SRP due.

Week 13

Thanksgiving Break – No classes at JMU

Week 14

 MON 11/28:

Allison Bechdel – Fun Home p. 1-120

Write: SRP

 WED 11/30:

Allison Bechdel – Fun Home p. 121-232

Write: SRP

 FRI 12/2:

Pride and Prejudice – group presentation

Week 15

 

MON 12/5:

Jane Eyre – group presentation

WED 12/7:

Middlemarch – group presentation

FRI 12/9:

Last things, discussion of the final

Final

Exam time: Wednesday, Dec 14th, 1:00pm-3:00pm, in our regular classroom (Burruss 34)