Wharton and Cather Seminar

English 422

Spring 1999

Ms. Rohrbach

Tu,Th 3:00-4:15

Peters 101

Outline of Scheduled Readings

Week 1 and 2:

Non-Fiction (xerox packet):

Cather, "The Novel Demueble"

Cather, "On the Art of Fiction"

Cather, "Reviews"

Wharton, "The Great American Novel"

Wharton, "In General"

Wharton, "Reviews"

 

Fiction:

Week 3:

Cather, Short Stories

Week 4:

Wharton, Short Stories

Week 5:

House of Mirth (1905)

Week 6:

O Pioneers! (1913)

Week 7:

Custom of the Country (1913)

Week 8:

Song of the Lark (1915)

Week 9:

Summer (1917)

Week 10:

My Anotonia (1918)

Week 11:

The Age of Innocence (1921)

Week 12:

Professor's House (1925)

 

Sources for Short Stories:

Wharton's New England

Collected Stories of Willa Cather