Required Texts:
Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (with supplementary material; ed. Dolan)
Richardson, Pamela
Hogarth, Engravings
The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from "The Tatler" and "The Spectator" (ed. Mackie)
Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England (ed. Fitzmaurice et al.)
The Meridian Anthology of Early Women Writers (ed. Rogers & McCarthy)

Course Requirements: Two 1,000-1,250 word papers (20% each); class presentation (25%); final examination (20%); and class discussion (15%). You must complete all work assigned in order to pass the course.

You may take an extension of up to one week on one paper. Unexcused late papers will be marked down 1/3 of a grade. If you hand in a paper more than a week late I may refuse to accept it, in which case it will receive a grade of F.

Papers must be double-spaced, typed and stapled in the upper left-hand corner. No extra title pages, folders or covers. Papers that do not follow the citation and format guidelines handed out in class will be returned for immediate revision and may be marked down for lateness.

You may hand in an advance draft of either paper for my comments; I will return the paper within 24 hours. You also should feel free to consult me at any stage during the writing process.

If you miss class on a day when you are assigned a study question, or if you miss more than four classes total, your final grade will be lowered by one level (e.g., a B would become a C). When you are assigned a study question, prepare a thoughtful 2-3 minute answer. Use the questions to guide your reading and expect to participate in discussion of all questions. These questions sheets and any other handouts cover all material on the final examination.

In your presentations, you will be assuming a considerable responsibility. You will be required to choose the reading material for that class meeting, in consultation with me, and then to design a combined formal presentation and discussion of that material.

Whenever a new author is assigned, please read any introductory material included in the text.

Late Renaissance: Daughters of Eve

Thursday, 27 January	Wm. Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Tuesday, 1 February	Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew; Robert Snawsel, A Looking Glass for Married Folks (Dolan 184-192)
Thursday, 3 February	Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew; "Wife Beating" (Dolan 218-225)
Tuesday, 8 February	A Homily on the State of Matrimony (Dolan 160-183); the Swetnam Controversy (Fitzgerald 373-384); Aemilia Lanyer, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," ll. 745-952 ("Eve's Apology")
Thursday, 10 February	Margaret Cavendish, Sociable Letters; first paper due

Restoration and late 17th Century: "The Sign of Angellica"

Tuesday, 15 February	Aphra Behn, The Rover
Thursday, 17 February	Behn, The Rover
Tuesday, 22 February	Behn, "The Disappointment," "On the Death of the Earl of Rochester"; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, "The Imperfect Enjoyment," "Love a Woman? You're an Ass," "Fair Chloris in Pigsty Lay," "Signior Dildo" (handout)
Thursday, 24 February	Anne Finch, "The Introduction," "To Mr. F. now Earl of W.," "A Nocturnal Reverie"
Tuesday, 29 February	Finch, "The Spleen"; Behn, "On Desire"
Thursday, 2 March	Mary Chudleigh, "To the Ladies" (handout); Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies and Some Reflections on Marriage
Tuesday, 7 March	Presentation by Group 1; Paper due for groups 2 & 3
Thursday, 9 March	"A woman's work is never done," "The Woman to the Plow" (Dolan 206-217); Mary Collier, "The Woman's Labor," Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "Washing Day"
SPRING BREAK

Early 18th Century: The Progress of Beauty

Tuesday, 28 March	Joseph Addison & Richard Steele, Spectators 10 ("Popularity"), 11 ("Inkle & Yarico"), 69 ("Royal Exchange"), 155 ("Women Proprietors"), plus all the essays in "Fashioning Gender"
Thursday, 30 March	Addison & Steele, Tatler and Spectator, as above
Tuesday, 4 April	Jonathan Swift, "The Progress of Beauty," "A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed," "The Lady's Dressing Room" (handout); Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "The Lover," "The Reasons that Induced Dr. S----"
Thursday, 6 April	Alexander Pope, Epistle to a Lady
Tuesday, 11 April	William Hogarth, A Harlot's Progress
Thursday, 13 April	NO CLASS
Tuesday, 18 April	Presentation by Group 2; Paper due for groups 1 & 3

Mid-18th Century: "Separate rights are lost in mutual love"

Thursday, 20 April	Samuel Richardson, Pamela
Tuesday, 25 April	Richardson, Pamela
Thursday, 27 April	Richardson, Pamela; David Garrick, from "Catherine and Petruchio" (Dolan 154-159)
Tuesday, 2 May	Hogarth, Marriage à la Mode
Thursday, 4 May	Montagu, Selected Letters
Tuesday, 9 May	Presentation by Group 3; Paper due for groups 1 & 2
Thursday, 11 May	Mary Hays, "Letters IV & VI"; An Appeal to the Men of Great Britain; Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (handout)