English 0674: Feminist Approaches to the Eighteenth Century
Dr. Paula R. Backscheider
9082 Haley Center
pkrb@auburn.edu
(334) 844-9091
Simone de Beauvoir by Toril Moi.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Cecilia by Frances Burney.
Emma by Jane Austen.
Millenium Hall by Sarah Scott.
Popular Fiction by Women edited by Paula R. Backscheider and John Richetti.
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ.
Jan. 5: Introduction
Recovering and Editing Women's Texts
11:How to Suppress Women's Writing;
Guest: Dr. Judith Slagle, editor of the letters of Joanna
Baillie.
13:Margaret Ezell's "Women Writers and Patterns
of Manuscript Circulation and Publication" in her The Patriarch's
Wife; Joanne Lafler, "The Will of Katherine Maynwaring," Biography 20 (1997): 156-80;
Mary Jo Kietzman, "Publicizing Private History" in The Intersections of the Public and Private
Spheres in Early Modern England and continued discussion
of How to Suppress Women's Writing.
18:Martin Luther King Day
Reinterpreting Lives
20:Dolores Palamo, "A Woman Writer and the Scholars: A Review of Manley's
Reputation," Women and Literature 6 (1978): 36-46; Maureen Mulvihill, "A Feminist
Link in the Old Boys' Network" in Curtain Calls; Backscheider, Spectacular Politics,
pp. 71-83; Kathryn King, "Poetical Recreations and the Sociable Text," ELH 61 (1994): 551-570;
Sue Churchill, "'I Then Was What I Had Made Myself,'" Biography 20 (1997): 72-94.
25:Guest
Dr. Anna Battigello, author of Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of
the Mind; please read pp. 1-84 and 114-16 of her book
Contextualizing Texts
27:Fantomina and all of the footnotes in
Popular Fiction by Women; "The Laugh of the
Medusa," and other short readings to be announced
Feb. 1: Guest: Dr. Paula McDowell, author of The Women of
Grub Street; please read pp. 1-62 and 121-27 of
her book, an Elinor James broadside, and a selection from Pope's
Dunciad
New Ways of Interpreting Texts
3:Cecilia and Pride and Prejudice
8:Cecilia
10:Cecilia and Pride and Prejudice
15:Guest:
Dr. Catherine Ingrassia, author of Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in
Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit;
readings from her book.
Difficult Texts
17:The British Recluse in Popular Fiction by Women and Emma
22:Emma and Millenium Hall
24:Emma and Millenium Hall
Tomorrow's Issues
Mar. 1: Toril Moi, Simone de Beauvoir
3:Readings to be announced
8:Reports
10:Reports
Exam period: reports continue