Primary texts

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: W.W. Norton, …………………………………………………...…..

Euripides. The Bacchae. Paul Woodruff, trans. ……………………:Hackett Publishing Company, 1998.

Faulkner, William.  Light in August. 1932.  New York: Vintage International, 1990.

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl Ed. Nell Irwin Painter. New York: Penguin Classics, …………

Joyce, James.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  Ed. Seamus Deane.  New York: Penguin Classics, 2003.

Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eds. M.H. Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt, et al. New York: W.W. Norton. 2525-2544. [NOTE: available on electronic reserve under ECLS 490]

Spivak, Gayatri. “Can the Subaltern Speak.” Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. Eds. Patricia Williams and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. 66-111.[NOTE: available on electronic reserve under ECLS 490].

 Secondary texts

[NOTE: all of these will be available on electronic reserve under ECLS 490]

 1.  for Jane Eyre:

Poovey, Mary. “The Anathematized Race: The Governess and Jane Eyre". Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988:126-163.

Sandra Gilbert, "Plain Jane's Progress. The Madwoman in the Attic. Eds. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, ……………… 475-501.

 2. for The Bacchae:

Segal, Charles. “Metatragedy: Art, Illusion, Imitation”. Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae. Expanded Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1982. 215-271.

Segal, Charles. “Afterword: Dionysus and the Bacchae in the Light of Recent Scholarship”. Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae. Expanded Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1982. 349-393.

 3. for Light in August:

Millgate, Michael.  "'A Novel: Not an Anecdote': Faulkner's Light in August."  New Essays on Light in August. Ed. Michael Millgate.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 31-53. 

Wittenberg, Judith.  "Race in Light in August: Wordsymbols and Obverse Reflections."  The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Philip Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 146-167.

4. for Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl:

Foster, Frances Smith. “Resisting Incidents.” Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Eds. Deborah M. Garfield and Rafia Zafar. New York: Cambridge, University Press, 1996. 57-75.

Foreman, Gabrielle. "Manifests in Signs: The Politics of Sex and Representation in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays. Eds. Deborah M. Garfield and Rafia Zafar. New York: Cambridge, University Press, 1996. 76-99. 

5. for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: 

Eide, Marian. "The Woman of Ballyhoura Hills:  James Joyce and the Politics of Creativity." James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ed. John Paul Riquelme. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.  439-451.

R. Brandon Kershner, "The Culture of Daedalus:  Urban Circulation, Degeneration, and the Panopticon." James Joyce. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Ed. R. B. Kershner. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2006.  357-377. 

6. for The Rape of the Lock:

Brown, Laura. “Imperialism and Poetic Form: The Rape of the Lock (1712, 1714, 1717), Windsor-Forest (1713)”. Alexander Pope. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1985. 6-45.

Crehan, Stewart. “The Rape of the Lock and the Economy of ‘Trivial Things’.” Eighteenth Century Studies 31.1 (1997): 45-68. 

7. [NOTE: There are no secondary texts assigned to Spivak’s essay]