Literature in Britain: the 18th Century to the Present
Term 1
MWF, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
In this course we will examine paired works by women and men who were contemporaries—Mary Leapor and Alexander Pope, Emily Brontë and Charles Dickens, and Charlotte Mew and Thomas Hardy, among others. Keeping in mind that in each case the female writer initially attracted less (in some cases much less) attention than her male counterpart, we will consider, first, what a predominantly ‘male’ literary canon looks like, and, second, how including women writers transforms that canon.
