LIT 3383 Spring 2024

This course examines the role of women in literary studies, both as authors and muses, to consider the question: where is a woman’s place? In doing so, we will “dwell in [the] Possibilit[ies]” of the domestic sphere, as well as follow the Female Flâneur into distant (and near) geographies. By traversing narrative modes of stillness and mobility from Victorian writers (“Angels in the House”) into the 21st century, we will engage with issues of identity—race, gender, class, and sexuality—as well as topics of belonging, grief, motherhood, the occult, and transformation. How does the female author, in these various places, time periods, and genres, step away from the male tradition and create a language of her own?