Thursday, April 1st
Wollstonecraft, Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Letter XVI through the conclusion, pp. 136-179)
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Tuesday, April 6th
Writing Workshop
Thursday, April 8th / Instructional Break
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Tuesday, April 13th
Mary Wollstonecraft, painted by John Opie, 1797
Wollstonecraft, Wrongs of Woman (Please have this read in its entirety)
Eliza Fenwick (1766?-1840) / Abby Yori’s presentation
Weekly Writing Prompt:
Discuss the significance of embedded narration in Maria; or, the Wrongs of Woman. What is the rhetorical purpose of layering narratives of oppression throughout the text?
Thursday, April 15th
Continue discussion of Wrongs of Woman
Selections from
Mary Hays, Obituary of Mary Wollstonecraft (Memoirs of Emma Courtney 335-336) and An Advertisement to the Reader and Introduction from Appeal to the Men of England (1798)
Mary Robinson, excerpt from A Letter to the Women of England (1799) and read the “List of British Female Literary Characters Living in the Eighteenth Century” <https://romantic-circles.org/editions/robinson/mrletterfrst.htm>
Presentation: Haley Jacobsen (Graduate Student, English Department)
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Tuesday, April 20th
Anon, Woman of Colour (Volume I, pp. 51-127)
Weekly Writing Prompt:
For 8 points, note four ways in which The Woman of Colour: a tale reflects the narrative traditions of other texts read this semester. (2 points each). You might note connections between narrative technique, imagery, novel conventions, characterization, etc. etc.
For the last 2 points, address the ways in which these conventions are complicated by the radical nature of the heroine: a “woman of colour.”
Thursday, April 22nd
Anon, Woman of Colour (Volume II)
Read the Introduction to the volume
Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761?-1804) / Karla Nemanic
It’s Doughnut Time! Oops, I mean Evaluation time!
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Tuesday, April 27th
Portrait of Amelia Opie, c. 1797, by John Opie
Amelia Opie, Father and Daughter (Please have this read in its entirety, pp. 59-157)
ODNB entry on Opie
Two-Part Weekly Writing Prompt:
- Amelia Opie’s A Father and Daughter was celebrated in one periodical for its power of “pathos” as a tool of reform (Broadview Introduction 12-13). Discuss one “pathetic” scene in detail and connect it to the larger aims of the work.
- Please post a paragraph description of your second essay. Link to Assignment. You will be evaluated here on the progress you make in developing a viable thesis statement in response to one of the prompts. If you are choosing to develop a weekly writing response, please do indicate that you’re doing so and note how you are developing your short response into a 5-7 page essay. A good description will:
- indicate your thesis
- suggest the structure of the essay
- provide some evidence so that I can assist you in developing your essay.
Anne Batten Cristall (bap. 1769, d. 1848) / Nate Wood’s presentation
It’s Doughnut Time! Oops, I mean Evaluation time!
Thursday, April 29th / Last Day of Class
Class does not meet f2f today. If you would like to set up time to meet with me to discuss your essays, please send me an email with your availability (in 15 minute time slots): eberle@uga.edu
Thank you all for your very hard work during this very hard semester!
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REVISED DUE DATE: Second Essay Due on Monday, May 10th by 9:00pm
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