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English 185A - Winter, 2016
Women's Writing I
Class Information
Instructor:
Johns, Alessa
Time:
TR 3:10-4:30
Location:
1060 Bainer
Grading
Grades will be based on quizzes and in-class assignments (15%), two papers (40%), a midterm (15%), a final (15%), and attendance/participation (15%).
Texts
Mary Astell, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (Broadview 1551113066)
Sarah Scott, Millenium Hall (Broadview 1551110156)
Jane Austen, Emma (Penguin 0141439580)
Eliza Haywood, Fantomina (Broadview 1551115247)
Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Embassy Letters (Broadview 9781554810420)
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Norton 9780393929744)
Anna Jameson, excerpt from Winter Studies and Summer
Rambles in Canada (online resource)
Jane Austen, Lady Susan (Dover 0486444074)
Roger Lonsdale, ed., Eighteenth-Century Women Poets (Oxford 0192827758)
