The Renaissance marked the beginning of women writing and pubishing in numbers and facing the problematics of doing just that. Works studied will include a selection from Queen Elizabeth I's poems, speeches and letters, Isabella Whitney's "Maner of Her Wyll," Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus Rex Judorum and The Description of Cooke-Ham, Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Lady Mary Worth's Urania (Book I) and her Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, Katherine Philips's selected poetry, Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between an Nobleman and His Sister, and Behn's The Rover.
This is an EMC Center theme course developing the Center's annual theme of early modern women. Students doing exceptional work in the course will be invited to participate in the Early Modern Center's end-of-the-year undergraduate conference on women (scheduled for Friday, May 30th). For more information please go to the Early Modern Center website.
Instructor Patricia Fumerton
Office and Office Hours SH 2506
By arrangement. Please E-mail.
Location/Time
South Hall room 2716
TR, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Required Texts Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works, ed. Janet Todd (Penguin Classics). The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer, ed. Susanne Woods (Oxford UP). The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania by Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies). Elizabeth Cary and The Lady Falkland, The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry and The Lady Falkland, Her Life, ed. Barry Waller and Margaret W. Ferguson (U of California P). The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts (Louisiana State UP). Reader (The Alternative Copy Shop, Isla Vista)
Assignments (more)
10% Regular attendance and participation
10% Oral report (5-10 mins.) on a critical article
or chapter in a book placed on reserve in the Reserve Book Room (RBR) 10% Quiz on Aphra Behn's Love-Letters 10% Quiz on Aphra Behn's The Rover 10% 1-2 page outline of research paper 50% 8-10 page paper
Patricia Fumerton 
