Calendar

Mon., May 20:
Introduction and visit to Special Collections.

Weds., May 22: Reading due:

• Chapter Two of New England Literary Cultures by Lawrence Buell
• Introduction to The American Renaissance by F.O.Matthiessen
• Chapter One of The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz
• "Introduction" and Chapters One through Three of The Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault
• Chapter Eight of Reading Becomes a Necessity of Liked: Material and Cultural life in Rural New England 1780-1835 by William Gilmore

Mon., May 27:
No class: Memorial Day. Re-Schedule.

Weds., May 29:

• "The American Scholar" and "The Poet" by R.W.Emerson
• "Reading" from Walden by H.D.Thoreau"
• "A Short Essay on Critics" and "Its Position in the Present Time, and Prospects for the Future" from American Literature by Margaret Fuller.
  Student report:

• Walden by H.D.Thoreau
• "The Sinless Child" by Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
  Student report:

Weds., June 5:

• The Pioneers by James F. Cooper.
• Chapter One and Four of Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American
  Fiction by Jane Tompkins.
• Chapter ? From The Profession of Authorship in Americ: 1800-1870 by William Charvatt
  Student report:

• The Schoolroom poets from The Poetry of the American Renaissance.
• Selected Poems by Lydia Sigourney
• Chapter Five of New England Literally Culture by Lawrence Buell.
• Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
• "A review: Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne" by E.A.Poe Graham's, April 1842
• "A review: Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne" by E.A. Poe Graham's May 1842
  (and another review by Poe on both "Twice-Told Tales" and "Mosses from an Old Manse" in Godey's, 1847 titled "Tale-Writing")
• "Hawthorne and His Mosses" by Herman Melville
• Henry James on Hawthorne.
  Student report:

Weds. June 12:

• "Cacoethes Scribendi" by Catherine Maria Sedgewick
• Hobomok by Lydia Maria Child
• Excerpts from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by L.M.Child.
  Student report:

• Uncle Tom s Cabin
  (Other Stowe materials: Review of Hedrick's Biography, another review of Hedrick's biography, images from the later plays from Mary Kay Duggan's images of "Print, Literacy and Power in America to 1900")
  Student Report:

Weds. June 19.

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Frederick Douglass.
  Student report:

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs.
• Chapter Three from Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist by Hazel Carby.
  Student report:

Weds. June 26.

• The Rise of Silas Lapham by W.D.Howells. (other Howell's information: Howells on the Phillipine War)
• Introduction and Chapter One of The Social Construction of American Realism
  Student Report:

Paper Due: July 28.

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