ENGL 9036 - The Quiet Revolution: 19th-Century American Women Writers

3 cr.

This course considers texts by Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ida B. Wells, Zitkala-Sa, Sui Sin Far, and many others. We will analyze their works as complex literary texts, and also consider how these writers used such literary genres as public forums for discussing issues such as sexism, racism, the reform of labor, marriage, property, voting, and education.