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Course Descriptions
English 628-001
Topics in Literature by Women: British Writers of the
18th Century
Prof. Kuist
In 18th-Century England, women were a very large sector of the
reading public, and increasingly women addressed themselves to this
public in poetry, fiction, drama, and the essay. Though the work of some
of these writers--Mary Wortley Montagu, Fanny Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and
a few others--has sometimes been included in canonically conceived
studies of that era, many writers have only recently been republished.
Their texts are now available in sufficient quantities that the syllabus
will have to be selective, and even then we'll have to read read read.
The novelists in the course will be Eliza Haywood, Charlotte Lennox,
Frances Sheridan, Sarah Scott, and Radcliffe. The poets will include
Anne Finch, Montagu, Hetty Wright, Mary Barber, Elizabeth Carter, Mary
Leapor, Susanna Blamire, Anna Seward, Charlotte Smith, and Anna Barbauld.
We'll read one play by Susanna Centlivre and Mary Wollstonecraft's
"Vindication of the Rights of Woman." The course will require one long
paper, a final exam, and (depending on class size) responsibility for
leading discussion of a writer or topic germane to the course.
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