Women Writers in English: The Female Gothic, ENGL 353-901 & GSWS 353-901 Dashboard
Description
This course will engage a broad array of texts by women-identified writers as we seek to collectively define the function, form, and relevance of the “Female Gothic” tradition. Coined by Ellen Moers in the mid-1970s, Female Gothic is a term used to distinguish and describe a literary tradition--gothic writing by women-identified writers—but it is also code for a set of ideas used by second-wave feminist critics to critique masculinist systems and structures. It is also a highly contested term that has been described as essentialist and limited in its imagintive scope.
While together we will primarily work with texts but we will also look at film and digital media, ranging from 18th century through 21st with texts related to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Students will engage in building tools related to a course anthology using Cove editions (https://editions.covecollective.org/), allowing them to gain experience with the editorial decisions and questions that have historically informed publication of writing by women.
Galleries, Timelines, and Maps
A collection of different photos from various Jane Eyre movie adaptations, emphazising mostly on the large age gap between Jane and Rochester.
The following images are representative of the Yellow Wallpaper, and the idea of being trapped.
The following places are areas that influenced Charlotte Perkins Gilman's life as well as her short story, The Yellow Wallpaper, likewise, these areas hold significant value in her personal life.
Each image in this gallery is art inspired by Jane Eyre or art that was included in publications of the novel. Often, in republications of a novel, an artist will be comissioned to illustrate the novel. These images were all published in editions from 1897 to 1992. Most of the artists' renditions stuck to the gothic theme of Jane Eyre, but Kathy Mitchell's later illustrations are bright and interpret the text diffeerently.
A collection of images surround the life of American Poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
The life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a interesting one and one that nneds to be examined, my timeline focuses on key events that may have influenced her writing as well as, her novel The Yellow Wallpaper
My group decided to focus upon how women write women.
Jane Eyre is completely different than characters that male authors present because she thinks for herself, and does not really rely upon a man to guide her throughout her life. In this timeline, instead of years, I will explain by chapter how in which she develops because she does have different characteristics in comparison to what a male author would have written about her.
The way I set this timeline up, means that it follows by chapters, so please ignore the date in which is at the top of each piece of the timeline.
This timeline documents the publications of content that are centered around the Madwoman trope. With each new addition, brings a different perspective of the Madwoman and contributes to it's progression.
This Map depicts essensial sites for the creation and progession of the Madwoman trope.
What is the effect of having another author tell Jane Eyre's story? How is the reader perception brought to life, or skewed?
This story is authored by Currer Bell in the year 1848. However even prior to this publishment of the book, the publisher Even Smith never had the oppurtunity to physically meet or shake hands with the author Currer Bell. Even Smith offered his insights to Currer Bell prior to allowing her to publish the book, however Bell did not see Smith's adjustments to the novel fit to her writing of the story, and she kindly tells him that she will not revise the story even after he had asked. In a new age of literary demands in London, this work in particular was not afraid to speak of the literary no goes, including incest, motherlessness, colonialism, and slavery. This is partly the reason why readership experience differs from generations, for instance a 19th century reader would read this book with the impression that Jane Eyre is fighting to recieve love in...
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Individual Entries
Providence, Rhode Island, was where much of Gilman's youth was spent and where she was able to be herself. Most of her friends were male, and she was described as a "tomboy," she stated that this was a moment in her life, where she felt unashamed.
This is where Gilman's formal education truly grew, it was here that she explored who she was and what kind of writer she would be.
Providence, Rhode Island, was where much of Gilman's youth was spent and where she was able to be herself. Most of her friends were male, and she was described as a "tomboy," she stated that this was a moment in her life, where she felt unashamed.
Jean Rhy's "Wide Sargasso Sea" created a new spin on the classic story of Jane Eyre. Delving into theexperience of a creol woman under colonialism.