English 360 WI & CD: American Women Writers
Home and Family
"A Family is a Nation in Microcasm"
English 360 will examine texts of American women writers selected from diverse ethnic backgrounds, all centering on a theme of Home and Family. The class will examine the choices women have made through generations, the influence of grandmothers and mothers upon daughters, and the changes that have taken place on issues of gender in the past and in contemporary society. The course will also focus on the distinctive features of the various cultures in these works, a comparison of their themes, symbols, characterizations, styles, narrative techniques, and cultural significance, as well as their place in the American literary tradition.
Class Requirements
The requirements and expectations for students enrolled in the Spring 2004 class of English 360.
Syllabus and Assignments
The daily class assignments for the Spring 2004 class of English 360.
Using Quotations
Examples of different ways to incorporate quotations into your critical analysis.
Setting Up Quotations
Examples of correct ways to introduce a quotation.
Internet Links
Writing and Editing Links
Click here for Bedford St. Martin's Guide for Writing Research Papers based on MLA Style.
Click here for Internet Public Library.
Ella Cara Deloria
Click here for a biography, bibliogrqaphy, and literary criticism of Ella Cara Deloria.
Click here UC at Berkeley's biography of Deloria.
Click here for a longer Deloria biography.
Click here for background on the tiyospaye or "Kinship."
Click here for background on the Plains Indians and the Sun Dance.
Click here for a Study Guide to Waterlily.
Click here for background on Lakota ceremonies.
Click here for a modern Kit Fox Society of American Veterans.
Click here and here for information on the extinction of the buffalo.
Click here for Lakota Courting Rituals.
Click here for Lakota Courting Rituals.
Click here for Native American Courting flute.
Click here for a discussion of smallpox as germ warfare against the American Indians.
Louisa May Alcott
Click here for Teacher Resource Website on Alcott
Click here for a Little Women home page
Click here for a virtual tour of Orchard House
Click here for a Louisa May Alcott, Domestic Goddess
Click here for Gonzaga University's Louisa May Alcott site
Click here for site where Alcott's works can be searched
Click here for article entitled "The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood"
Click here for background on Coventry Patmore and "The Angel in the House"
Click here for article entitled "Wrestling with the Angel of the House: Interviews with Women Writers"
Click here for article entitled "Killing the Angel in the House" by Elaine Showalter
Click here for Godey's Ladies Book, a nineteenth century women's magazine.
Click here for article entitled "Domesticity to Danger."
Click here for Feminist Theory (Annette Kolodny and Nina Baym)
Click here for Women's History site
Click here for texts of British Victorian Women Writers
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Click here for the Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation
Click here for a photo of the Bess Streeter Aldrich House
Click here for Aldrich's movie Cheers for Miss Bishop.
Click here for a history of Elmwood, Nebraska.
Click here for the official website of the National Grange.
Click here for a history the Grange organization.
Click here for a history of the Grange in Nebraska.
Click here for link to Solomon Butcher photographs and homesteading history.
Click here for Women of the West Museum's Internet Links to sites about pioneer women
J. California Cooper
Click here for a J. California Cooper Website with audio
Click here for Random House Website on J. California Cooper
Click here for National Archives article "From Slave Women to Free Women"
Click here for a Research Guide to the History of Black African American Women
Click here for an audio as well as a video of J. California Cooper speaking.
Sandra Cisneros
Click here for a Web Site on Sandra Cisneros
Click here for the Internet Library Resource File on Sandra Cisneros
Click here for links to and evaluations of Cisneros Websites
Click here for a website on "La Malinche: Harlot or Heroine?"
Click here for the Catholic Church's website on the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Marilynne Robinson
Click here for an National Book Award interview with Marilynne Robinson
Click here for a website and links on Marilynne Robinson
Click here for a Sisters of the Road Homeless program
Click here for Boxcar Bertha's Coffee House
Click here for the National Hobo Association Website
bloomfields@unk.edu
Dr. Susanne (George) Bloomfield
Professor of English
204 Thomas Hall
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849-1320
308-865-8867
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