| Course Title: A Landscape of One's Own |
| Start Date: 09/04/2019 End Date: 12/17/2019 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2019 |
| Description: This seminar will focus on portrayals of women in nineteenth and twentieth-century America in the context of nature and landscape. We will explore how women, often objectified in visual images set in nature, appropriated established devices or developed new images and structures to represent womanhood in their own terms. With selected works by Thoreau as our springboard, texts will include essays or sketches, short stories, novels, paintings, films, and photography. Virginia Woolf wrote of the need for a woman to have "a room of one's own," a quiet space for creativity and reflection. What emerges in the works of women writers who chose the land beyond that room for their creative space? The course will focus on women who told the stories of their lives in the context of islands, forests, prairies, and deserts of the United States. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , FY - First-Year Seminar , WI - Writing-Intensive |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Leah Glasser | 413-538-2855 | lglasser@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/04/2019 - 12/17/2019 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 10:00AM - 11:15AM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 318 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| FYSEM0001 | First-Year Seminar | This is a First-Year Seminar. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 16 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: The Awakening Author: Chopin, Kate Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780553213300 Publisher: Vintage |
Required | 7.00 |
| Title: Country of the Pointed Firs Author: Jewett, Sarah Orne Copyright: 1968 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780393311372 Publisher: Norton |
Required | 21.95 |
| Title: Island Garden Author: Thaxter, Celia Copyright: 1894 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9781429014298 Publisher: Riverside Press |
Required | 11.80 |
| Title: Ceremony Author: Silko, Leslie Marmon Copyright: 1986 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143129462 Publisher: Penguin |
Required | 15.00 |
| Title: Walden Author: Thoreau, Henry David Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780807098134 Publisher: Beacon Press |
Optional | 10.95 |
| Title: The Land of Little Rain Author: Austin, Mary Copyright: 2003 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780812968521 Publisher: Modern Library Classics |
Required | 16.00 |
| Title: Letters of a Woman Homesteader Author: Stewart, Elinore Pruitt Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: Publisher: Dover |
Required | 7.00 |
| Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Hurston, Zora Neale Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 0061120065 Publisher: Harper |
Required | 15.99 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Copies are on order at Odyssey Bookstore |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: Thoreau's Walden will not be required reading. We will focus on Thoreau's essays, which will be posted on Moodle.. For those interested in reading more of Thoreau, I'm putting Walden on Reserve. |