Week 1: Introductions and Susan Glaspell

M 2/9 - Introductions and backgrounds

W 2/11 Glaspell, "A Jury of Her Peers," (1916);
Margaret Fuller, "The Great Lawsuit" (1843)

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Week 2: Harriet Beecher Stowe

M 2/16 Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

W 2/18 Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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Week 3: Fanny Fern

M 2/23 Fern, Ruth Hall (1857)

W 2/25 Fern, Ruth Hall (1857)

F 2/27 Essay 1 Due

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Week 4: Louisa May Alcott

M 3/1 Alcott, "Behind a Mask; or A Women's Power"
Little Women (1868)

W 3/3 Alcott, Little Women (1868)
7:00 p.m. screening of Little Women
(dir. Gillian Armstrong, 1994) and
selections from previous adaptations. Bi Hall 219

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Week 5: H. P. Spofford and R. H. Davis

M 3/8 Spofford, "Circumstance" (1860)[SW]

W 3/10 Davis, "Life in the Iron Mills" (1861) [SW]

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Week 6: Frances E. W. Harper

M 3/15 Harper, Iola Leroy (1892)

W 3/17 Harper, Iola Leroy (1892)

F 3/19 Last day to turn in midterm exam.
Have a relaxing spring break!

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Week 7: Sarah Orne Jewett

M 3/29 Jewett, "The White Heron" and
Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

W 3/31 Jewett, Country of the Pointed Firs and other
Dunnet Landing stories:
"The Foreigner," "The Queen's Twin,"
"A Dunnet Shepherdess," and "William's Wedding"

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Week 8: M. W. Freeman, C. F. Woolson, and C. P. Gilman

M 4/5 Freeman, "A New England Nun" (1891);
"A Poetess" (1891); "Old Woman Magoun" (1909);
"Sister Liddy" (1891)
and
Woolson, "Miss Grief" (1880);
"At the Chateau of Corrine" (1896) [SW]

W 4/7 Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper" (1892)

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Week 9: Kate Chopin

M 4/12 Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

W 4/14 Chopin, The Awakening (1899)

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Week 10: Edith Wharton

M 4/19 Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)

W 4/21 Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)
7:00 screening of The Age of Innocence
(Dir. Martin Scorsese) Bi Hall 219

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Week 11: Willa Cather

M 4/26 Cather, Song of the Lark (1915)

W 4/28 Cather, Song of the Lark (1915)

12/6 F Essay 2 due.

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Week 12: Nella Larsen

M 5/1 Larsen, Quicksand (1928)

M 5/3 Larsen, Quicksand (1928)

F 5/5 Essay 2 due.

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There will be a self-scheduled final exam for this course.

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