ENG 387: Women Writers

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This course studies writing by women across a variety of periods and genres, with focus on the historical and cultural context of women’s lives. A: “Twentieth-Century Women Writers Study” treats writing of twentieth-century women, attending to its differences from and connections to earlier periods and mainstream traditions. B: “U.S. Women Writers” explores U.S. women’s writing as it participates in mainstream literary and rhetorical traditions and creates its own counter-traditions. The course may include women’s autobiographies, speeches, essays, letters, captivity and slave narratives, poetry, fiction and drama from a variety of periods. This course is the same as AMS 335 and GGS 335 and course repeat rules will apply.

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English