Course outline:

Week of September 5

Introduction

Week of September 12

•  Introduction to 17 th century: Préciosité and Salon writing

•  “The Other Voice,” in The Story of Sappho , p. 1-11 and discussion of The Story of Sappho  

Week of September 19

•  The Story of Sappho

•  The Story of Sappho

Week of September 26

•  “Changing the Subject: Authorship, Writing and the Reader” Nancy K. Miller and discussion of The Princess of Clèves

•  The Princess of Clèves

Week of October 3

•  The Princess of Clèves

•  Introduction to 18 th Century: Women in Public and Domestic Spheres  

Week of October 10

•  Beauty and the Beast and article

•  Ourika

Week of October 17

•  Ourika and “Seduced Heroines: The Tradition of Protest”

•  French Women and Revolution  

Week of October 24

•  Introduction to 19 th century: Idealism and Realism

•  Indiana

Week of October 31

•  Indiana and “Idealism in the Novel: Recanonizing Sand”

•  Indiana

Week of November 7

•  London Journal

•  Introduction to 20 th Century:From the Belle Epoque to Existentialism

Week of November 14

•  Paris from my Window

•  The Second Sex

Week of November 21

The Second Sex and article  

Week of November 28

•  Introduction to Post-Colonial writers

•  The Forbidden Woman

Week of December 5

•  The Forbidden Womn

•  Slander

Week of December 12

1) Slander

Conclusion