English Honors Tutorial
Restoration and 18th Century Women Writers

Instructor: Linda Garber          [LGLG@LELAND.STANFORD.EDU]
Stanford University
Spring 1988

Poetry

Handouts include poems and biographical notes on poets

4/13    Aphra Behn  (1640-1689)
        "The Willing Mistress"
        "The Disappointment"
        "To the Fair Clarinda, Imagined More than Woman"

        Anne Killigrew (1660-1685)
        "Upon the Saying that My Verses Were Written by Another"

        Lady Mary Chudleigh (1656-1710)
        "To the Ladies"

        Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea (1661-1720)
        "The Introduction"
        "The Answer" [to Pope]
        "Melinda on an Insippid Beauty" [after Sappho]

4/20    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
        "Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband"
        "Verses Addressed to the Imitator of the First Satire of the
	Second Book of Horace" [to Pope]
        Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
        "Pressed by the Moon, Mute Abitress of Tides"
        "Thirty-Eight"

Black American Women Poets -- Beginnings of a concurrent tradition

4/20    Lucy Terry  (1730-1821)
        "Bars Fight, August 28, 1746"

        Phyllis Wheatley  (c.1753-1784)
        "To S.M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Work"
        "On Being Brought From Africa"


Introduction to Literary Criticism and Library Research

4/27    Meet at circulation desk in Green Library; bring topics for
	senior thesis to discuss research strategies and practice using
	sources.
        Required Reading: Margaret Ezell, "Women Writers: The Female
        Perspective," in The Patriarch's Wife   (Chapel Hill and London:
	The University of North Carolina Press, 1987), pp.101-126
	(handout)


Novels

5/4     Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
        Biographical notes, from Janet Todd, A Dictionary of British
	and American Women Writers, 1660-1800   (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman
	and Allenheld, 1985) (handout)
        Oroonoko, The Royal Slave   [1688]

5/11    Fanny Burney D'Arblay (1752-1840)
        Biographical notes, from Todd (handout)
        Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the
	World [1778]

5/18    Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)
        Biographical notes, from Todd (handout)
        A Simple Story   [1791]

5/25    Literary Criticism II
        Terry Castle, "Masquerade and Utopia II: Inchbald's 'A
	SimpleStory'" in Masquerade and Civilization
	(Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986), pp.290-330
	(handout)
	short excerpt (by way of contrast) from Eva Figes, "The Gothic
	Alternative," in Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
	(London and Basingstoke: The MacMillan Press, 1982), pp.60-61
	(handout)

6/1     Mary Wollestonecraft  (1759-1797)
        Biographical notes, from Todd (handout)
        A Vindication of the Rights of Women,  excerpts [1792]
	(handout)
        The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria   [unfinished novel, 1798]