LIT3383-0003 - Fall 2025 - Rafferty

In this course, students will be assigned readings that place Virginia Woolf’s writing with that of other women writers during the early twentieth century. Woolf is a vital contributor to modernist literature in that she altered literary norms as a pioneer of experimental techniques of narrative, such as inner monologues, stream-of-consciousness, feminism perspectives, and inclusion themes. Written analysis of literary works will be required. Students will be provided with opportunities to practice critical interpretation. The course will examine a range of contemporary women authors that intersect with Woolf’s oeuvre: selections of her major novels, short stories, essays, lectures, memoir and diary entries. There will be discussions of Woolf scholarship, and text from modernist contemporaries, such as, Elizabeth Bowen, Vera Brittain, Emily Homes Coleman, Hilda Doolittle (aka. H.D.), Mary Hutchinson, Katherine Mansfield, Betty Miller, Marianne Moore, Olive Moore, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Evelyn Scott, Gertrude Stein, Vita Sackville-West, and Rebecca West.