Module Identifier | EN34120 | ||
Module Title | WOMEN, WRITING, HISTORY: 1660-1740 | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Sarah H Prescott | ||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours (10 x 2 hrs) | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
2. Representing the woman writer: A selection of poetry by male and female writers which present images of the woman writer and female authorship.
3. Staging Women: Aphra Behn, The Feigned Courtesans (1679); The Lucky Chance (1686)
4. Constructing a Self I: Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
5. Constructing a Self II: Delariviere Manley, The Adventures of Rivella (1714)
6. Politics, Sex and Scandal I: Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun (1689) and Delariviere Manley, The Secret History of Queen Zarah (1705)
7. Politics, Sex and Scandal II: Eliza Haywood, The Adventures of Eovaai (1736)
8-10. Women and Fiction: Eliza Haywood, The British Recluse (1722) and Fantomina; or, Love in a Maze (1725); Jane Barker, Love Intrigues (1713); Penelope Aubin, The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil (1721); Mary Davys, The Reform'd Coquet (1724); Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Friendship in Death (1728). All fiction included in Popular Fiction By Women, 1660-1730: An Anthology edited by Paula Backscheider and John Richetti (Oxford 1996)
Selective Bibliography
Carol Barash, English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community and Linguistic Authority (Oxford 1996)
Ros Ballaster, Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction, 1684-1740 (Oxford 1992)
Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (eds.), Women, Texts and Histories, 1575-1760 (Routledge 1992)
Isobel Grundy and Susan Wiseman (eds.), Women, Writing, History: 1640-1740 (Batsford 1992)
Jacqueline Pearson, The Prostituted Muse: Images of Women and Women Dramatists, 1642-1737 (Harvester 1988)
Jane Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen (Blackwell 1986)
Janet Todd, Feminist Literary History (Polity, 1988) and The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing, Fiction: 1660-1800 (Virago 1989)