Literature, Women and Society, 1600-1800

 

It's time to start thinking about your term paper. Please email me to let me know what you are planning to write about, or - if you are not sure what to write about - for help and advice in choosing a topic.

Papers should be around 1000 words in length, written in academic style. The deadline is January 31 (please submit a word processing file as an email attachment).

 

Lesson 13 (January 19)

• Class print

   

Powerpoint:

 


First-wave feminism

 

Lesson 12 (January 06)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

   

Powerpoint:

 


Male hegemony and the Victorian woman: The case of the corset

Lesson 11 (December 21)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

   

Powerpoint:

 


Gender and madness in Jane Eyre

Lesson 10 (December 14)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

   

Powerpoint:

 


Gender and empire in Jane Eyre

 

 

 

Bertha Mason (a different screen version from the one we watched in class)

Lesson 9 (December 07)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

 

Powerpoint:

 

Victorian women: Getting past the stereotypes

Lesson 8 (November 30)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

 

Powerpoint:

 

Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen

Lesson 7 (November 23)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

 

Powerpoint:

 

The epistolary novel

Lesson 6 (November 16)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

Powerpoint:

 

Women and society in eighteenth-century England (2)

 

Lesson 5 (November 9)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

Powerpoint:

 

Women and society in eighteenth-century England (1)

 

Lesson 4 (October 26)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

Powerpoint:

 

Women, education and society in seventeenth-century England

 

Lesson 3 (October 19)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)

Powerpoint:

Shakespeare and gender

 

Lesson 2 (October 12)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)
• Women and power in Mary Wroth's Urania

Powerpoint:

Early modern women (2): Women and gender in seventeenth-century England

Research facilities. For a short time only, the university has been given a free trial of the Early english Books Online database (EEBO). Click here to access this wonderful resource!

I made a presentation on the use of EEBO at the Shakespeare Society of Japan annual conference a couple of years ago. Some of what I presented is out of date or slightly different now, but it will give you a basic explanation of how to get the best out of EEBO (note that there are three videos):

 

Early English Books Online

 

Lesson 1 (October 5)

• Class print (with gaps)
• Class print (complete)
• The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda

Powerpoint:

Early modern women (1): The background to 1600

 

 

 

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