The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
September 6 |
Introduction |
Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
September 13 |
Christopher Columbus, from The Journal of the First Voyage to America |
September 15 |
Alvar Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation |
September 18 |
Alvar Nuñez de Cabeza de Vaca, continued |
September 20 |
John Smith, from A Description of New England
William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
September 25 |
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
Part II: Settlement and Rebellion |
September 27 |
Anne Bradstreet, "Contemplations," "The Flesh and the Spirit," "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old," "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" |
October 2 |
Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
October 4 |
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense, from The American Crisis
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
October 9 |
J. Hector St. John de Crévecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
October 11 |
Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia |
October 16 |
Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
Part III: Unsettling Developments |
October 18 |
Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntley |
October 23 |
Brown, continued
MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
October 25 |
Brown, continued |
October 30 |
Brown, continued |
November 1 |
Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
Part IV: An American Renaissance |
November 6 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
November 8 |
Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government" |
November 13 |
Thoreau, from Walden |
November 15 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
November 20 |
Douglass, continued |
November 22 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter |
November 27 |
Hawthorne, continued |
November 29 |
Hawthorne, continued |
December 4 |
Hawthorne, continued
BRING WORKING DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
Part V: Cynicism and Optimism |
December 6 |
Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno"
TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER. |
December 11 |
Melville, continued |
December 13 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
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December 16 |
FINAL EXAMINATION (IT IS ON A SATURDAY). |