American Women Writers in Context

Code Cours
1920-FLSH-LCE-EN-2006
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Gerald Preher
Period

Présentation

Goal
To study English literature from the point of view of theory. Students will learn to write a commentary about the novels studied.
Presentation
Gulliver’s Travels” J. Swift (OUP, Oxford World’s Classics, Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins (Dir.) 2005)

“The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint” William Shakespeare, J. Kerrigan (Ed) (Penguin, 2004)

Modalités

Forms of instruction
3 hours per week
Evaluation

Ressources

Bibliography

<b>Bibliography:</b>|| Beer, Janet. Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.|| Donaldson, Susan V. Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914. Boston: Twayne, 1998.|| Harrintgton, Ellen Burton, ed. Scribbling Women and the Short Story Form: Approaches by American and British Women Writers. New York : Peter Lang, 2008.|| Koloski, Bernard, ed. Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin Revival. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. [<b>BUV</b>]|| Louvel, Liliane &amp; Claudine Verley. Introduction à l’étude de la nouvelle.<i> </i>Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 1993. [<b>BUV</b>]|| Martin, Wendy. New Essays on<i> The Awakening</i>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.|| Perrin-Chenour, Marie-Claude. Kate Chopin: Ruptures. Paris: Belin, “Voix américaines,” 2002. [<b>BUV</b>]|| ___. Les Romancières américaines. Paris: Ellipses, 1995.|| Ricard, Virginia, ed. The Short Stories of Edith Wharton. Special issue of Journal of the Short Story in English 58 (Spring 2012). [on-line]|| Showalter, Elaine. A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.|| ___. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Brontë to Doris Lessing. London: Virago, 1977.|| Ullmo, Anne. Edith Wharton: La Conscience entravée. Paris: Belin, “Voix américaines,” 2001. <b>[BUV]</b>|| Verley, Claudine. Lectures critiques en anglais: A Guide to Critical Reading of Fiction in English. Paris: Ophrys, 1998.|| Wagner-Martin, Linda. The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne, 1990.|||| <b>, </b>|| .