SELECTED READING LIST

Women in the Arts and Literature

*Asterisk indicates those works that touch on the course theme.

Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women, Work, Diana and Persis.

*Angelou, Maya. Gather Together in My Name, Singin' and Swingin'and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

*Atwood, Margaret. *Lady Oracle, Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, The Edible Woman, The Robber Bride, Life Before Man, Bodily

Harm, The Penelopiad

Austen, Jane. Emma, Love and Friendship, Persuasion

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Audley's Secret

Bronte, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Bronte, Charlotte. Villette, Shirley

Brown, Dan. The DaVinci Code

Buck, Pearl. The Good Earth

Burney, Fanny. Cecilia

*Byatt, A. S. Possession

Cade, Toni, ed. The Black Woman, An Anthology

Cahill, Susan, ed. Woman and Fiction I, Women and Fiction II

*Cather, Willa. My Antonia, O Pioneers, *The Song of a Lark, A Lost Lady, The Troll Garden

*Chicago, Judy. Through the Flower

*Chopin, Kate. Stories, The Awakening

Collins, Wilkie. Woman in White

Defoe, Daniel. Roxana, Moll Flanders, "The Education of Women," from An Essay upon Projects

*Dickinson, Emily. Selected Poetry

*Doolittle, Hilda (HD). HERmione

*Drabble, Margaret. *The Waterfall, The Middle Ground, The Millstone, A Summer Bird Cage, Jerusalem The Golden

*Duncan, Isadora. My Life

Edgeworth, Marie. Belinda

Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda, Romola

*Ensler, Eve. The Vagina Monologues

*Fitzgerald, Zelda. Save Me the Waltz

Forster, E. M. Howards End, Room with a View

French, Marilyn. The Women's Room, Her Mother's Daughter

Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Ruth

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Gilman Reader, Herland

Gissing, George. The Odd Women

Glascow, Ellen. The Sheltered Life, Barren Ground

Gordimer, Nadine. Burger's Daughter.

*Hansberry, Lorraine. To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Far From the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure

*Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance, *The Marble Fawn

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God

*Ibsen, Henrik. When We Dead Awaken

James, Henry. The Golden Bowl, Portrait of a Lady

Jewett, Sarah O. and Mary W. Freeman. Short Fiction of S. O. Jewett and M. W. Freeman

Jewett, Sara Orne. The Country Doctor

Jewsbury, Geraldine. Zoe

*Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying, Fanny, Parachutes and Kisses, Shylock's Daughter (formerly titled Serenissima), Inventing Memory,

Sappho’s Leap., How to Save Your Life, Ordinary Miracles, Woman's Blues

Kauffman, Janet. Places in the World a Woman Could Walk

Kaufman, Sue. Diary of a Mad Housewife

Kingsley, Charles. Alton Locke

Larsen, Nella. Quicksand, Passing

*Lessing, Doris. *The Golden Notebook, *Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, Marriages between Zones Three, Four, and Five, A

Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked

*Linton, Elizabeth. *My Literary Life

McCullers, Carson. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

*Mansfield, Katherine. *Journal.

Melville, Herman. "Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids"

Meredith, George. The Egoist

Miller, Caroline. Lebanon, Lamb in His Bosom

*Millay, Edna St. Vincent. Selected Poetry

Moffat, Mary Jane. Revelations: Diaries of Women

Moore, George. Esther Waters

Morgan, Berry. The Mystical Adventures of Roxie Stoner

*Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Beloved

*Morrow Lindbergh, Anne, A Gift from the Sea

Munro, Alice. Lives of Girls and Women, Moons of Jupiter Stories

Norton, Caroline. Lost and Saved

*Nin, Anais. *Henry and June.

*Oates, Joyce Carol. The Bloodsmoor Romance, Them, Blond

O'Brien, Edna. The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, Girls in Their Married Bliss (trilogy), A Rose in the Heart

Olsen, Tillie. Tell Me a Riddle

Paley, Grace. The Little Disturbances of Man

*Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar

*Porter, Katherine Anne. Old Mortality, Pale Horse, Pale Rider

*Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea

Rich, Adrienne. Selected Poetry

*Rossetti, Christina. Selected Verse

Roth, Philip. The Breast

*Sand, George. Indiana, Lelia

*Schreiner, Olive. The Story of an African Farm, From Man to Man

*Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty

Shaw, George Bernard. Candida, Pygmalion

*Shelley, Mary. *Frankenstein

Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives

Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess

*Walker, Alice. The Color Purple, Meridian, Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar, *In Search of Our Mother's Gardens

*Wasserstein, Wendy. The Heidi Chronicles

West, Rebecca. The Judge, The Thinking Reed

Welty, Eudora. Delta Wedding

*Wharton, Edith. *House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence

*Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary, A Fiction, The Wrongs of Woman, *Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden . . .

Wordsworth, Dorothy. *Journals, *Letters

Wood, Mrs. Henry. East Lynne

*Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway, *To the Lighthouse, *Flush, *Orlando, Between the Acts, The Voyage Out

Yonge, Charlotte. Daisy Chain, The Clever Woman of the Family

Critical Paper

Select a work from above or read further among the writers in our text, and develop an original thesis and critical response. Consider any of the following as you develop your ideas:

1) the social, psychological, or historic framework for the piece, if appropriate;

2) the author's purpose and use of theme, symbol, or style to develop purpose;

3) the work's connection to any of the ideas associated with woman's creativity or woman as artist

4) a particularly theme, image, or idea that is intriguing to you.

Read creatively the work you choose, marking passages you might wish to use, motifs, symbols, etc., so that the writing of the essay will be easy and enjoyable. Your essay should be from 6-8 computer drafted essay, conference presentation length. Consult if needed critical sources to enhance your understanding of the work and to support your thesis (see Selected Literary and Social Criticism or MLA index); also, use MLA style for research papers (see Harbrace). Remember to give credit for ideas and words not your own; failure to do so in either respect is PLAGIARISM, which will result in a failing grade on the essay and potentially for the course. Your grade will be determined by the depth, range, and originality of your ideas and the expression of those ideas.