Readings

Texts

Buy at Amazon Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York, NY: Bantam Classics, 1983. ISBN: 9780553213102. (See an annotated version of the text online at the Republic Of Pemberly.)

Buy at Amazon Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1997. ISBN: 9780451526557. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)

Buy at Amazon Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780451527561. (Download a version of this text from Project Gutenburg.)

Buy at Amazon Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. 1st ed. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780156628709.

Buy at Amazon Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. ISBN: 9780060837020.

Buy at Amazon Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. San Diego, CA: Harvest Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780156028356.

Buy at Amazon Morrison, Toni. Jazz. New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.

Buy at Amazon Reynolds, Sheri. The Rapture of Canaan. New York, NY: Berkley Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780425162446.

Additional Readings

Atwood, Margaret. "Marrying the Hangman." 1978.

Plath, Sylvia. "The Applicant." 1962.

Schedule

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Set up, Poetry by Margaret Atwood and Sylvia Plath  
2 Toni Morrison: Jazz pp. 1-114.
3 Toni Morrison: Jazz (cont.) pp. 115-229.
4 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Chapters 1-35, pp. 1-174.
5 Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (cont.) Chapters 36-61, pp. 175-334.
6 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway pp. 1-102, through "...that she did not like that man."
7 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway (cont.) pp. 102-192.
8 Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth Book 1, pp. 1-189.
9 Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth (cont.) Book 2, pp. 190-350.
10 Sheri Reynolds: The Rapture of Canaan Entire book.
11 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Chapters 1-22, pp. 1-251.
12 Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre (cont.) Chapters 23-38, pp. 252-461.
13 Alice Walker: The Color Purple Entire book.
14 Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar Entire book.