Kent-Drury
Summer 2001
English 422/655; WMS 390. Women & 18th Century Literature (Revised 7/18/01)*
Date
Reading Assignment
Due Dates
Week 1 Intro to Course; Themes  
9 Jul Friendship
Chudliegh, "To Clorissa" (Uphaus 146)
Philips, "Friendship's Mystery," "A Retir'd Friendship," and "Content" (Uphaus 153-158)
Barbauld, "To Mr. Barbauld" (Web)
Recommended: Explicating Poetry
Handout: 18th century poetry
 
10 Jul Criticism
Behn, "The Golden Age" (Web)
Egerton, "The Emulation" (Uphaus 141)
Philips, "The World" (Uphaus  158)
Wollstonecraft, "Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (Uphaus 360)
Recommended: Astell, "Some Reflections on Marriage" (Web)
Study Questions
 
11 Jul Writing & Education
Behn, "To Mr. Creech" (Penguin Behn 335)
Finch, "The Introduction" (Uphaus 170)
Finch, "The Apology" (Uphaus 172)
Leapor, "Claret" (Web)
Moody, "Sappho Burns Her Books" (Web)
More, "On the Danger of an Ill-Directed Sensibility" (Uphaus 386-400)
Study Questions
 
12 Jul Poetic Conversations
Rochester, "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (Handout)
Behn, "The Disappointment" (Uphaus 53)
Swift, "The Lady's Dressing Room" (Web)
Montagu, "The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called The Lady's Dressing Room" (Web)
Duck, "The Thresher's Labor" (Handout) (Cancelled)
Collier, "The Woman's Labour" (Web) (Cancelled)
Study Questions
 
13 Jul Categories and Boundaries 
Behn, "To the Fair Clarinda" (Web) (Penguin Behn 343)
Behn, "To Lysander" (Uphaus 60) (Cancelled)
Finch, "The Unequal Fetters" (Uphaus 176) (Cancelled)
Killigrew, "Herodias Daughter"
Barbauld, "The Rights of Women" (Web)
Barbauld, "To a little invisible Being" (Web)
Study Questions
 
Week 2 Aphra Behn  
16 Jul The Rover, Acts I & II (Penguin) MLA Handout Due
17 Jul The Rover, Acts III & IV (Penguin)  
18 Jul The Rover, Act V (Penguin); The Lucky Chance, Act I (Uphaus 62)  
19 Jul The Lucky Chance, Acts II-III  (Uphaus)  
20 Jul The Lucky Chance, Acts IV-V (Uphaus)  
Week 3 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  
23 Jul Theatre rapup: Film: The Clandestine Marriage
Intro: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Research 
Handout Due
24 Jul Travel Narrative: Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-1718), p. 132-173 
Study Questions
 
25 Jul Mid-life Crisis (1736-1739), p. 226-292 (Algerotti letters only) Paper Topic 
Due
26 Jul Advice from Italy, p. 325-409 (Lady Bute letters only)
Study Questions
 
27 Jul Midterm
Midterm quotes
 
Week 4 Frances Burney D'Arblay  
30 Jul Evelina, p. 5-109  
31 Jul Evelina, p. 109-205  
1 Aug  Evelina, p.205-301  
2 Aug Evelina, p. 301-403  
3 Aug Evelina, p. 403-end Annotated 
Bibliography due
Week 5 Jane Austen  
8 Aug P & P  
7 Aug P & P  
8 Aug P & P  
9 Aug P & P  
10 Aug Final Exam
Essay Questions
Paper due
*Any of the above is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.