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Week 2
4/6
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Chs. 1-15 (Vol. 1) Quilla Valdez; Cristina Hernandez
4/8
Narratology: Story/Discourse; Characterization; Time. Or, is there a formula for
the literary aesthetic? Read: Rimmon-Kenan, Chs. 4-5; read ahead: Gilbert/Gubar,
excerpts from The Madwoman in the Attic (R, for 4/13) Alex Vitruk
Week 3
4/13 Feminism: The Madwoman in the Attic; or, why Jane and Bertha are not really
rivals, but secret allies. Jane Eyre, Chs. 16-26 (Vol. 2) Angela Shepard; Mena Krone;
Marissa McGrath
4/15 Psychoanalysis and the Gothic: Gateshead as Gothic mansion, where Jane “hears”
a ghost. A rational-psychoanalytic explanation of supernatural events. Read: Sigmund
Freud, “The Uncanny”; excerpts from Punter & Byron, The Gothic (all R) Brian
Hardison; Surya Manickam
Week 4
4/20 Genre and “Archetypes” (structural building blocks) of Fiction: Or, why our
heroine almost dies mid-way through the story. Jane Eyre, Chs. 27- 30; selections from
Northrop Frye (R) Katelin Benson; Julia Arp
4/22
Jane Eyre, to end; Terry Eagleton (R) Duane Taylor; Jeanna Harrington
Week 5
4/27 Postcolonial Critique of Jane Eyre: Or, second thoughts on Gilbert/Gubar: is
Rochester’s mad wife really Jane’s dark double, her secret self? Spivak (R) Mary-Janelle
Ditching; Kirsten Thornton
Week 6
5/4
Postcolonial revision or counterdiscourse: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Parts I
& II; re-read Spivak (R); Rhys, excerpts from Smile, Please and Black Exercise Book (in
Norton WSS) Heather Barnum; Paul Groff
5/6
Interpreting Antoinette’s prophetic dream: Read: Wide Sargasso Sea, to end;
Sandra Drake (in Norton WSS) Allan Habon; Raanan Schnitzer
Week 7
5/11 Rhys’ racial project: Neither White nor Black: Creole Identity between Race and
Fantasy: read Plasa (R) and Benita Parry (in Norton WSS) Yodit Semu; Jonathan Rice
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5/13 Narratology: free indirect speech; voice (Who speaks?) vs. vision (Who sees?);
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, pp. 1-33; Rimmon-Kenan, Ch. 8 (Narration: Speech
Representation) Tim Zimmerman; Ricky Kim
Week 8
5/20 Subjectivizing Narrative in the Modernist Novel: Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway,
to p. 136; Woolf, “Modern Fiction”; Fernihough, “Consciousness as a Stream”; selected
entries from The Diary of Virginia Woolf (all R) Victoria Wadzita; Marco CaldirolaDavis
Week 9
5/25 Anxiety of Influence between Women Writers? Modernist Impersonality (Mrs
Dalloway) vs. the Victorian Social Protest Novel (Jane Eyre)
Mrs Dalloway, to end; Woolf, excerpt from A Room of One’s Own; Woolf, “Continuing
Appeal of Jane Eyre”; review Gilbert/Gubar (all R) Joyce Myers
5/27 Narratology: Narration and focalization. Rimmon-Kenan, Chs. 6 & 7;
Brownstein; review Frye, “Satire” (both R) Curt Schlichtman; Kody Brynestad
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