For posterity, here’s a little wrap up of the classes I took for my English MA program in Fall 2010, and a chronological list of primary readings.
Edith Wharton & Social Realism
- Rebecca Harding Davis – Life in the Iron Mills
- Theodore Dreiser – Sister Carrie
- Henry James – In the Cage
- Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth
- Edith Wharton – Ethan Frome
- James Weldon Johnson – The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Edith Wharton - Summer
- Edith Wharton – The Age of Innocence
- Nella Larsen – Passing
Seminar Paper: “Powerless Over the Meal: the Aestheticization of Food in The House of Mirth and Sister Carrie”
Post-Colonial Theory & the African Novel
- Ama Ata Aidoo – Our Sister Killjoy
- Chinua Achebe – Anthills of the Savannah
- Nuruddin Farah – Maps
- Aminatta Forna – Ancestor Stones
- Abdulrazak Gurnah – Desertion
- Nadine Gordimer – July’s People
Seminar Paper: “The Bridge and the Fence: Laughter in Three African Novels”
Shakespeare’s History Plays
- 1 Henry VI
- 2 Henry VI
- 3 Henry VI
- Richard III
- Richard II
- 1 Henry IV
- 2 Henry IV
- Henry V
Seminar Paper: “Succession of Language: Women Talking to Women in Shakespeare’s History Plays” (winner of the 22nd Annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Graduate Research Award)
