1/17 Introduction

1/19 Surveying the Virgin Land (38 pages)
Christopher Columbus (11-12)
Bartolome De Las Casas (15-17)
Author Barlowe (67-76)
John Smith, all exerpts (102-120)

1/22 The Errand into the Wilderness (53 pages)
John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (214-225)
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (164-204)
Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World (374-376)

The Puritan Experience of Poetry

1/24 Anne Bradstreet
"The Prologue," "A Dialogue Between Old England and New," "Contemplations," and remaining poems on pages 268-280."To My Dear Children" (280-284)

1/26 Edward Taylor
From Preparatory Meditations (all selections), "The Soul's Groan to Christ for Succor," " Christ's Reply,"Upon Wedlock, and the Death of Children," "[When] Let by Rain," "Upon a Wasp Chilled by Cold," "Huswifery"
(Also, read the intro to Michael Wigglesworth and the first 18 stanzas of The Day of Doom)

Early American Lives

1/29 Mary Rowlandson (31 pages)
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

1/31 John Woolman and Jonathan Edwards
John Woolman, from The Journal of John Woolman (597-611) and "On the Keeping of Negros" (597-612)
Jonathan Edwards"The Beauty of the World"; "Images or Shadows of Divine Things" (487-491)
[Begin reading Franklin's Autobiography]

2/2 Ben Franklin (63 pages)
Autobiography (Part I and II, 523-585)
Presentation: Matt

2/5 Olaudah Equiano and Occam (38 pages)
Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (751-785)
Occam, A Short Narrative of my Life (612-614)

A New Nation, A New Literature

2/7 The Revolution as a Literary Event
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense (691-699)
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, selections from Notes on the State of Virginia, Letters to Peter Carr, John Adams [The Natural Aristocrat], and to Nathaniel Burwell.
(Also, read David Walker's reading of Jefferson)
Resources:
The Sally Hemings Controvery, U.S. News article
Exerpts on slavery from Notes on the State of Virginia
Presentation: Meghan

2/9 Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur (27 pages)
From Letters from an American Farmer (641-660)
Also, Franklin, "Information to Those Who Would Remove to America" (510-516)

2/12 Poets of the Revolution: Freneau and Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley, all poems and letter to Samson Occam
Philip Freneau, all selections except "The House of Night"
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.
Presentation: Emily

2/14 Washington Irving [ESSAY #1 DUE]
"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (936-969)

2/16 Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The American Scholar" and "The Poet"
Resources:
American Transcendentalism (D. Campbell)
American Transcendentalism: A Brief Introduction (PAL)
Transcendentalism and the American Renaissance
Romantic Backgrounds
The Concord literary circle

Three Romancers

2/19 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Preface to The House of Seven Gables, "Young Goodman Brown," "The May-Pole of Merry Mount, "The Minister's Black Veil"
Resources:
Gothic, Novel, and Romance: Brief Definitions (D. Campbell)
Hawthorne on Romance

2/21 Hawthorne
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" and "Roger Malvin's Burial"
(Correction guide for the papers handed back today).

2/23 Hawthorne
"The Birthmark" and "Rappaccini's Daughter"
Presentation: Pat (Check out his Hawthorne page)

2/26 Herman Melville (31 pages)
"Hawthorne and His Mosses" and "The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids"

2/28 Melville (25 pages)
"Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Presentation: Robin

3/2 MID-TERM EXAM

3/5 NO CLASS-Spring Break

3/7 NO CLASS-Spring Break

3/9 NO CLASS-Spring Break

3/12 Melville, "Benito Cereno" (56 pages)
Resources:
The Amistad Incident: The Source of Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno or Not?

3/14 Edgar Allan Poe (29 pages)
Excerpt from "Tale Writing," Poe's review of Hawthorne"
"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Ligea"

3/16 Poe: Tales of Detection, Crime, Punishment (22 pages)
"The Purloined Letter," " The Imp of the Perverse" "The Cask of Amontillado"
Presentation: Jeff

Pastoral Interlude

3/19 Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Chapters 1-2 (pp. 1768-1820

3/21 Thoreau, Walden
Chapters 3-7 (pp.1820-1856)

3/23 Thoreau, Walden
Chapters 8-12 (pp. 1856-92)
Presentation: John

3/26 Thoreau, Walden
Chapters 16-18 (pp. 1914-1943)
[Begin reading Uncle Tom's Cabin]

Protest and Reform

3/28 Margaret Fuller (35 pages)
"The Great Lawsuit"

3/30 Frederick Douglass (63 pages)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Presentation: Lauren

4/2 Frederick Douglass
Presentation: Sandra
Review by Margaret Fuller
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

4/4 Reading day/Conferences
ESSAY #2 PROPOSAL DUE
Read Uncle Toms Cabin

4/6 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
[entire novel due]
Resources:
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture Multimedia Archive

4/9 Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Critical Essays: James Baldwin, "Everybody's Protest Novel" (p. 495) and Jane Thompkin's, "Sentimental Power: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Politics of Literary History" (p. 501)

4/11 Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Presentation: Kristin

4/13 No Class- Easter Break

4/16 No Class-Easter Break/Patriot's Day

4/18 Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron-Mills (26 pages)
Resources: Perspectives in American Literature Page

Poetry

4/20 Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1881 version)
Presentation: Natalie

4/23 Walt Whitman
Poems:
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
Letters:
Emerson's letter to Whitman (Image of Original)
Whitman's Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Norton)
Reviews by Whitman (choose one to read):
"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].
Presentation: Justin

4/25 Emily Dickinson
All poems in Norton

4/27 Emily Dickinson
Dickinson's letters in Norton
Presentation: Kate
Resources:
T.H. Higginson's "Letter to a Young Contributer" and "Emily Dickinson's Letters"

4/30 ESSAY #2 DUE, last class

5/3 Walden/Concord Outing (optional)

5/8 FINAL EXAM (Tuesday) at 9:00 a.m., Carney 304