Provisional Course Schedule
All readings should be completed before class on the day assigned. PDF files may be found in Canvas Modules (or the Canvas Library Reading List); you need to have a digital or printed copy in class of all readings.
Week 1 on Zoom see Canvas module for Zoom link
T Aug 25 Introductions
R Aug 27 PDFs: West, “Indissoluble Matrimony”; Mullin, “Modernisms and Feminisms”; Loy, “Feminist Manifesto”. See Canvas Week 1 module for assignment signups!
Week 2 on Zoom see Canvas module for Zoom link
T Sept 1 Woolf, A Room of One’s Own chapters One-Four; hint: notes at the end
R Sept 3 A Room of One’s Own chapters Five-Six
West Essays: A, Responses: C
Week 3 on Zoom see Canvas module for Zoom link
T Sept 8 West, Return of the Soldier chapters 1-4
Biobib: West
R Sept 10 UMW closed for move-in
Week 4
T Sept 15 Return chapters 5-6 and Benstock, “Expatriate Modernism” (pdf)
CC report: women and WW I
Woolf Essays: B, Responses: D
R Sept 17 Woolf, To the Lighthouse, “The Window”
Biobib: Woolf
Week 5
T Sept 22 Lighthouse, “Time Passes” and “Modern Fiction” (pdf)
CC report: The New Woman and the flapper
R Sept 24 Lighthouse, “The Lighthouse”
CC report: modernist women and visual art
Stein Essays: C, Responses: A
Week 6
T Sept 29 Stein, Tender Buttons
Biobib: Stein
R Oct 1 Tender Buttons; Spahr’s “Afterward” (107-125); “Poetry and Grammar” (pdf)
CC report: women in modernist Paris
H.D. Essays: D, Responses: B
Week 7
T Oct 6 H. D., HERmione Part One
Biobib: H. D.
R Oct 8 HERmione Part Two
CC report: sexology
Week 8
T Oct 13 HERmione and “Notes on Thought and Vision” excerpt (pdf)
CC report: Hall’s The Well of Loneliness
Cather Essays: A, Responses: C
R Oct 15 Cather, My Ántonia Introduction and Book I
Biobib: Cather
Week 9
T Oct 20 My Ántonia Books II and III
CC report: reproductive rights and practices
R Oct 22 My Ántonia Books IV and V
CC report: girl’s and women’s education in the modern period
Barnes Essays: B, Responses: D
Week 10
T Oct 27 Barnes, Nightwood chapters 1-3; rec.: T. S. Eliot’s Preface
Biobib: Barnes
R Oct 29 Nightwood chapters 4-5
CC report: women’s fight for the vote
Week 11
T Nov 3 NO CLASS. THEY FOUGHT FOR IT, YOU USE IT. VOTE.
R Nov 5 Nightwood chapters 6-8
CC report: women’s fashion/crossdressing
Larsen Essays: C, Responses: A
Week 12
T Nov 10 Larsen, Passing Parts One and Two
Biobib: Larsen report
R Nov 12 Passing Part Three and Caughie, “Passing as Modernism” (link)
CC report: women and/of the Harlem Renaissance
Hurston Essays: D, Responses: B
Week 13
T Nov 17 Hurston, The Complete Stories: “John Redding Goes to Sea,” “The Gilded Six-Bits,” “Mother Catherine”
Biobib: Hurston
R Nov 19 Complete Stories “Muttsy,” “Sweat,” “Story in Harlem Slang”
Biobib: Sayers
Week 14 at home
Read all of Sayers, Gaudy Night. Yes, I mean it.
Week 15 on Zoom see Canvas module for Zoom link
T Dec 1 Sayers
R Dec 3 Sayers
FINAL EXAM PERIOD: Tuesday, December 8, 12:00-2:30
