| English 592: Writing Women in the Age of Shakespeare | |||
Interesting Renaissance Women On-Line (newly available for use @ OSU-Lima) A Sermon about Women's Behavior and Apparel by John Calvin Ann Harris Southwell Sibthorpe A Celebration of Women Writers |
Indeed there were women
writers in the age of Shakespeare! Lots more of them than most folks imagine. This course will explore a wide variety of women's genres from the early modern period: poetry, drama, fiction, political speeches, history, letters, "feminist" manifestos, and motherly advice pamphlets. Like their male contemporaries, women wrote on secular and sacred subjects; they wrote scholarly works and practical manuals; they wrote controversial treatises and escapist fictions. These women are among English literature's best kept secrets. It's time to find out what you've been missing.
Texts for Autumn 2001: Randall Martin, ed. Women Writers in Renaissance England. Longman. ISBN 0-582-09620-0. Elizabeth Cary. The Tragedy of Mariam the Fair Queen of Jewry. With The Lady Falkland Her Life by One of Her Daughters. Ed. Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. ISBN 0-520-07969-8. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson, ed. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55111-173-X. Aphra Behn. Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works. Ed. Janet Todd. New York: Penguin Books, 1992. ISBN 0-14-043338-4. |