Women Writers

Catalog description

As Virginia Woolf reflects, “The title women and fiction might mean, and you may have meant it to mean, women and what they are like; or it might mean women and the fiction they write; or it might mean women and the fiction that is written about them; or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together” (A Room of One’s Own 1). We might also approach with the same skepticism “Women Writers”—a rather impossible course to set. This introductory course surveys multiple genres of literatures (poetry, prose fiction, drama, and film) and aims to introduce students to a variety of literary traditions that women writers have developed, shaped, and reshaped.