Roaring Girls

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This course explores women’s writing in England from the 10th through 17th centuries, considering whether later writers have their origins in the works of their literary foremothers. Related ideas about how to study manuscripts, how to consider “alternative” literacies, and how to distinguish women’s hands from men’s will be examined, too, along with the premise that all women’s writing is feminist, or subversive, or roars.