ENG-2026 Women Writers of the World
This course has a global exposure by covering the works of a variety of women writers all over the world. In its diversity, it examines the works of these writers specifically as "women's work," i.e., discussing their works in light of Feminist criticism. Another objective is to identify the common threads in women's writings, and to explore their work as a unique contribution to literature. The works of these writers will be analyzed in the context of their respective cultures and time periods. The course will focus on writers from antiquity to the Victorian period: Sappho, Sei Shonagon, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, George Sand, and Emily Dickinson, as well as writers from the Modern period: Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Nadine Gordimer, Anna Akhmatova, Toni Morrison, and others. Fiction, poetry, the polemical essay, and autobiographical writings are featured.