English 254/360
American Women Writers: Domestic Landscapes
Dr. Susanne George Bloomfield
Spring 2001
ENGLISH 254/360: AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
ASSIGNMENTS
Tuesday 1/9
Class Requirements, Expectations, Intro. to Course
Thursday 1/11
Discussion: Women and Domesticity
Read Intro to "Feminist Theory." Also read either site on Kolodny or Baym
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/lcorriga/index.htm
Read "The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood"
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html
Tuesday 1/16
Alcott: Little Women pp.4-96
Read about Coventry Patamore and "The Angel of the House"
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/truewoman.html
Thursday
1/18Alcott: Little Women pp.96-191
Browse AlcottWeb: http://www.alcottweb.com/
Tuesday 1/23
Alcott: Little Women pp.192-288
Browse Victorian Woman's World:
http://www.spiritone.com/~zsk/Thursday
1/25Alcott: Little Women pp.289-384
Tuesday 1/30
Alcott: Little Women pp.385-473
Thursday 2/1
Cooper: Family pp. 1-80
Browse Cooper Website: http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/JCaliforniaCooper.html
Tuesday 2/6
Cooper: Family pp. 81-140
Read "From Slave Women to free Women" in National Archives article: http://www.nara.gov/publications/prologue/frankel.html
Thursday 2/8
Cooper: Family pp. 141-231
Tuesday 2/13
Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader pp.1-99
Browse Stewart Website: stewart/Stewart.html
Thursday
2/15Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader pp.100-192
Tuesday 2/20
Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader pp.193-282
Slide Presentation & Video excerpts
Thursday 2/22
Cather: A Lost Lady pp. 1-49
Browse the WCPM Website: http://www.willacather.org/
*Thesis and points for paper due
Tuesday 2/27
Cather: A Lost Lady pp. 50-99
Browse Harvard's Willa Cather site: http://icg.harvard.edu/~cather/
Thursday
3/1Cather: A Lost Lady pp. 100-150
Tuesday 3/6
Writing Workshop
Thursday 3/8
CRITICAL ANALYSIS DUE
Tuesday & Thursday 3/13 & 3/15
SPRING BREAK
Tuesday 3/20
Olsen: Yonnondio pp. 1-46
Browse Nebraska Writers Website on Tillie Olsen: http:mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/olsen.htm
Thursday
3/22Olsen: Yonnondio pp. 47-102
Read Tillie Olsen Interview: http://www.flipside.org/vol2/dec99/99de08a.htm
Tuesday 3/27
Olsen: Yonnondio pp. 103-152
Thursday 3/29
Cisneros: House on Mango Street pp. 1-38
Browse Sandra Cisneros Website:
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/SandraCisneros.htmlTuesday 4/3
Cisneros: House on Mango Street pp. 39-75
Thursday 4/5
Cisneros: House on Mango Street pp. 76-110
Tuesday 4/10
Robinson: Housekeeping pp. 1-43
Browse Marilynne Robinson Website: http://www.seattleartsandlectures.org/robinson.htm
Thursday 4/12
Robinson: Housekeeping pp. 44-75
For fun check out the national Hobo Association Website!
http://www.hobo.org
*Thesis and points for paper due
Tuesday 4/17
Robinson: Housekeeping pp. 76-132
Thursday 4/19
Robinson: Housekeeping pp. 132-175
Tuesday 4/24
Robinson: Housekeeping pp. 175-219
Thursday 4/26
Writing Workshop
Finals: May 1 (Tuesday) at 1:00
RESEARCHED CRITICAL ANALYSIS with rough drafts due
Dr. Bloomfield's Home Page:
http:www.unk.edu/acad/english/faculty/bloomfields
Class Home Page:
http:www.unk.edu/acad/english/faculty/english360/english360html