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COURSE


All material for this course, including lecture notes and daily readings, is posted here.

 

WEEK Session Name Materials Assignment (due BEFORE class on the day listed)
1 Introduction to American Literature

 

2 The Americas: Narratives of Formation

 

3 Contact and Conflict  
  • Listen to "The Language of Settlement" Open University (focus on the first 20 minutes)
  • "Settlement" Quiz 2 (in class) 
  • In-class close reading paper.  
4 American Encounters 
 
5 Collision of Slavery and Freedom 

 

  • "American Neoclassicism" Cyrus Patell (free on iTunes)
  • Quiz 3 on American Neoclassicism (in class).  

 

 

7 A Government of Ideals 

 

8 Re-membering American Identity 

READINGS IN CLASS 

  • "Nathaniel Hawthorn" (1) Cyrus Patell  
9 Forming a New American Identity  
  • "American Transcendentalism" (1) Cyrus Patell 
  • Quiz 5 Transcendentalism 
10 Close Reading Rough Draft Workshop 

 

11 American Gothic 
  • "American Gothic" (1) Cyrus Patell
  • Quiz 6 American Gothic 

 

12

Slavery, Race, and the Making of American Literature 

 

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Brouhaha 

  • "Frederick Douglas" - Cyrus Patell
  • Quiz 7 Douglas 
13  Women and the Making of American Identity 

 

14 Cost of Slavery 
  • Quiz 10 Whitman 
 
15

Rough Draft Workshop

 

CONFERENCES

  • Rough Drafts of Final Paper and Presentation 

 

  
16 Final Presentations  "A Hallelujah Christmas

 

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