Texts
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York, NY: Bantam Classics, 1983. ISBN: 9780553213102. (See an annotated version of the text online at the Republic Of Pemberly.)
Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1997. ISBN: 9780451526557. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)
Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780451527561. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. 1st ed. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780156628709.
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN: 9780060837020.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780156028356.
Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.
Reynolds, Sheri. The Rapture of Canaan. New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780425162446.
Additional Readings
Atwood, Margaret. “Marrying the Hangman.” 1978.
Plath, Sylvia. “The Applicant.” 1962.
Schedule
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Set up, Poetry by Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath | |
| 2 | Toni Morrison: Jazz | pp. 1-114. |
| 3 | Toni Morrison: Jazz (cont.) | pp. 115-229. |
| 4 | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice | Chapters 1-35, pp. 1-174. |
| 5 | Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (cont.) | Chapters 36-61, pp. 175-334. |
| 6 | Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway | pp. 1-102, through “…that she did not like that man.” |
| 7 | Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (cont.) | pp. 102-192. |
| 8 | Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth | Book 1, pp. 1-189. |
| 9 | Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (cont.) | Book 2, pp. 190-350. |
| 10 | Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of Canaan | Entire book. |
| 11 | Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre | Chapters 1-22, pp. 1-251. |
| 12 | Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (cont.) | Chapters 23-38, pp. 252-461. |
| 13 | Alice Walker: The Color Purple | Entire book. |
| 14 | Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar | Entire book. |
