The Renaissance marked the beginning of women writing and pubishing in numbers and facing the problematics of doing just that. Primary texts studied will include a selection from Queen Elizabeth I's poems, speeches and letters, Isabella Whitney's "Maner of Her Wyll" (with guest visit by Laurie Ellinghausen), 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, Eliza Haywood's Fantomina, or Love in a Maze, Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between an Nobleman and His Sister (with guest visit by Bill Warner) and Behn's The Rover (with guest visit by E. Cook).
Instructor Patricia Fumerton
Office and Office Hours SH 2506
By arrangement. Please E-mail.
Location/Time
South Hall room 2716
R, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Required Texts 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). Reader (available from The Alternative Copy
Shop, Isla Vista). 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). Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other
Works, ed. Janet Todd (Penguin Classics). The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed.
Josephine A. Roberts (Louisiana State UP).
Recommended Texts
Assignments (more)
10% Regular attendance and participation 10% Online Book Review (1-2 pp.) 70% 10-12 page paper or a shorter paper complemented
by a Web site on your topic (such a site might include besides the text of the
essay a set of links to online resources, an annotated bibliography, images,
etc.) 10% Oral report (5-10 mins.) on a critical article or chapter
in a book placed on reserve in the Reserve Book Room (RBR)
Patricia Fumerton 
