Lorenzo Society Reading Series

Sue Sinclair reads from Mortal Arguments and
The Drunken, Lovely Bird

and

Steve McOrmond
reads from Lean Days

Monday, 14 February, 7pm
Faculty-Staff Club, Ward Chipman Library Building

Project Assignment: Paper

Thesis statement due: Feb. 14, 2005
Final draft due: Mar. 14, 2005
Length: 6–8 pages
Percentage of grade: 25%

You may write about any text(s) written by a woman after 1775, whether on the course or not. If you are counting this as an Area C course, you must write on (a) 19thc text(s). Focus closely on the text(s) and work outwards. Following are some very general possibilities:

• Discuss how a writer negotiates the constrictions of her chosen genre and/or subject matter.
• Discuss how a writer reworks traditional material, and to what end.
• Discuss how the ways in which a writer negotiates the literary marketplace are reflected in her work(s).
• Discuss the interactions between two different writers or texts.
• Discuss a text or writer in terms of their relationship to a larger community.

The Victorians II: The Brontës (cont.) / George Eliot

Reading: Jane Eyre; George Eliot's Adam Bede

Presentation(s): Christina on women's education in the mid-19thc

Deadline: thesis statements for papers due today at the beginning of class