LIT4385 - Fall 2025 - Caputi

A round-table style, reading-intensive exploration of prominent women authors in the Anglo-American tradition, with special focus on the theme of mobility versus confinement, women’s historical relationship to “the power of the pen,” and Virginia Woolf’s imperative that women writers must “kill the Angel in the House” in order to free their creativity. Requirements: frequent in-class writing assignments, two critical essays, active class participation, creative/interdisciplinary project, final exam.

Be advised that this course is strictly HARD COPY ONLY. Required text-books are to be purchased in BOOK FORMAT: tablets and e-readers may not be used in the classroom unless authorized by the Office of Accessibility. Cell-phone use is also restricted in the classroom.

This course fulfills the diversity requirement of the LMC track in the English major.