Intensive study of prose and/or poetry by English and American women after 1700 including such authors as Charlotte Lenox, Clara Reeve, Fanny Burney, Anne Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Willa Carter, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Carter, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, Paule Marshall, Leslie Marmon Silko. Attention to gender, race, and class situated in a historical context, and brief consideration of feminist literacy theory. May also include focus on genre, for example, the Female Bildungsroman. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA