History 593F - S-US&EuroWomn&GendHist

This Junior Year Writing Seminar on US and European women's history through fiction will explore the ways that novels, plays, short stories, and poems incorporate, respond to and reflect in their style and content historical and geographical realities for women. We will examine the historical and biographical context for an author's work and her or his anticipated and actual audience. We will also study scholarly critical analyses of the relationships between fiction and history

Open to Seniors and Juniors in History, Middle East and Judaic majors only.