The central concern of the course will be female authors such as Jane Austen, the Brontes, Virginia Woolf, and other historical, modern, and contemporary writers whose reputations have been convincingly established in literary history. The course also covers women writers who, for various reasons, have dropped out of the canon, but who are enjoying a revival. The historical circumstances peculiar to their sex, as well as the linked literary, social, and political concerns that surround the problem of identifying how writers construct and are constructed will be studied.

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