9/5 Introduction
Visions of the New World
9/7 Surveying the Virgin Land
John Smith,
all selections (105-120)
John Winthrop,
all selctions (214-234)
9/10 Puritan Arguments
William
Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (164-199)
Thomas Morton, from "New English Canaan" (206-214)
Roger Williams, from The Bloody Tenet of Persecution and
"A Letter to the Town of Providence" (243-245)
Resources on Puritanism:
The Puritan
Legacy (NortonWeb)
Anne
Hutchinson in the Purtian Context (Barnard College)
•
The Theology of Puritanism
• Why
was Hutchinson a Threat? (Antinomianism)
• Important
Terms
Puritanism
in New England (Donna Campbell)
9/12 Writing Puritan Lives
Anne
Bradstreet:
"The Prologue," "Contemplations,"
"The Author to her Book"
Edward
Taylor:
From Preparatory Meditations (all selections), "The
Soul's Groan to Christ for Succor," "Christ's Reply"
9/14 Reading the Puritan World
Anne
Bradstreet:
Poems on pages 271-280
Edward
Taylor:
"Upon Wedlock, and the Death of Children," "[When]
Let by Rain," "Upon a Wasp Chilled by Cold," "Huswifery"
9/17 The Puritans and the Indians
Mary Rowlandson:
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration (298-330)
Resources:
Hanna Duston's captivity narrative as told by Cotton
Mather, Nathanel Hawthorne,
H.D. Thoreau.
Boston Globe article on scalping
From Colony to Nation
9/19 Benjamin
Franklin
Autobiography (Part I, p. 524-569)
9/21 Benjamin
Franklin
Autobiography (Part II, p.569-585)
9/24 Olaudah
Equiano
From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
(751-785)
Presentation: Jason Youmatz
9/26The Revolution as a Literary Event
Thomas
Paine, from Common Sense (691-699) and "The
Crisis" (699-704)
Presentation: Steve Andon
9/28 Slavery and the Revolution
John Woolman:
"On the Keeping of Negros" (597-612)
Thomas
Jefferson:
"The Declaration of Independence" (714-719)
Exerpts
on slavery from Notes on the State of Virginia
Phillis Wheatley:
all poems
David Walker's reading
of Jefferson (online)
Presentation: Linsey
McCombs
Resources:
An electronic transcription of Phillis Wheatley's 1786 collection
of poetry, Poems
on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral with the original
biographical preface and 1773 title page.
The
Sally Hemings Controversy
10/1 The Middle Landscape
Hector
St. Jean de Crevecoeur:
From Letters from an American Farmer (641-660)
Thomas
Jefferson:
selections from Notes on the State of Virginia (720-730)
Presentation:
Patrick Mooney
10/3 Flex Day
10/5 Mid-Term
10/8 Columbus Day--No Class
Interlude: Inventing American Literature
10/10 The Emersonian Vision
Ralph
Waldo Emerson "The American Scholar"and "The Poet"
Presentation: Kari Russ
Resources:
American
Transcendentalism (D. Campbell)
American Transcendentalism: A Brief Introduction (PAL)
Transcendentalism
and the American Renaissance
Romantic
Backgrounds
The Concord
literary circle
10/11 ESSAY #1 DUE
(by 4:00 in my office--McGuin 529C)
10/12 Hawthorne and Literary History
Nathaniel
Hawthorne:
Preface to The House of Seven Gables, "The May-Pole of
Merry Mount," "The Minister's Black Veil"
Presentation: Pete Schruth
Nature and Economy
10/15 Henry
David Thoreau (55 pages)
Walden (p. 1768-1826)
10/17 Henry
David Thoreau (53 pages)
Walden(1826-1878)
Presentation: Kevin Schwartz
10/19 Henry
David Thoreau (43 pages)
Walden (1878-92, 1915-1943)
(Skip chapters 13-15)
[10/20 Saturday, Walden Field Trip]
10/22 Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Young Goodman Brown" and "Roger
Malvin's Burial" (Please print the online reading and
bring it to class)
Presentation: Krystal
Mims
10/24 Emily
Dickinson
Poems 130, 285, 314, 328, 520, 978, 986, 1068, 1138, 1397,
1463
Presentation: Dave
Capozza
10/26 Emily
Dickinson and
Walt Whitman
Dickinson poems: 214, 258, 324, 348, 384, 593, 632, 824, 1540,
1581, 1593, 1624
"Song of Myself" (1855 version, read at least through p. 2121)
Presentation: Erin Murray
Resources:
Reviews by Whitman:
"Walt
Whitman and His Poems"
"Walt
Whitman, a Brooklyn Boy"
"An
English and American Poet" [review of Alfred Tennyson, Maud, and
other Poems and Leaves of Grass].
10/29 Walt
Whitman
Finish "Song of Myself" (1855 version)
Emerson's
letter to Whitman (Image
of Original)
Whitman's Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Norton)
Presentation: Naveen
Ganesh
10/31 Herman Melville
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Presentation: Jared Treiber
11/2 Herman
Melville
"The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids"
Presentation: Mike Cahir
Women and Men
11/5 Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall
11/7 Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall
Presentation: Sungnam
11/9 Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall
11/12 Margaret
Fuller
"The Great Lawsuit"
Presentation:
Youssef Rizk
11/14
Emily Dickinson
Read remainder of poems, especially
199, 732, 185, 285, 303, 326, 441, 448, 505, 709, 952, 1072, 1129,
1138
Dickinson's letters in Norton
Presentation:
Beth Bowers
11/16 Nathaniel
Hawthorne
"The Birthmark" and "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Presentation: Kevin Donovan
11/19 Edgar
Allan Poe
"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Ligea"
Presentation: Tim Wientzen
11/21 Thanksgiving - No Class
11/23 Thanksgiving - No Class
Slavery and Race
11/26 Frederick
Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Presentation: Brendan
Rourke
Resources from "Africans
in America" website:
Antebellum
Slavery, Abolition
Frederick
Douglass and William
Loyd Garrison
Letter
to Garrison from Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fugitive
Slaves and Northern Racism
National
Geographic Underground Railroad Page
11/28 Frederick
Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Presentation: Peter
Schruth
11/30 Women's Anti-slavery Fiction
Lydia Maria
Child
"Slavery's Pleasant Homes" and "The
Quadroons" (both online)
Presentation: Thomas
Duncan
Optional reading: Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The Quadoon's Story" from Uncle Tom's Cabin (p.1699-1705)
12/3
Harriet Jacobs
Preface
by the Author and Introduction
by the Editor (Lydia Maria Child)
Exerpts from "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
(p. 1717-1738)
Presentation: Jason Ciccone
Resources:
Full
hypertext edition of Incidents
12/5 Herman Melville
"Benito Cereno" (2372-2428)
Presentation: Sonya Petri
Resources:
The
Amistad Incident: The Source of Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno
or Not?
12/7 Herman Melville
"Benito Cereno" continued
12/10 Last class/Review for final
exam
12/11 ESSAY #2 DUE in my office by
noon
12/17 Final Exam
Monday at 12:30 p.m. in Carney 102
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