ENG BC3180 Schedule of Readin...

BC 3180 SCHEDULE OF READINGS
Spring 2008
Professor Gordis

NA=The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition, volume B

DATE	TOPIC AND READING ASSIGNMENT	RELATED MATERIALS
January 23	Introduction: Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-20): "The Author's Account of Himself" (handout)	A sample of American Renaissance scholarship Asher Durand, "Kindred Spirits"(1849) in the National Gallery publication history of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
January 25	DUE: Wiki assignment #1
January 28	The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., continued: "The Art of Bookmaking" (handout and web), "Christmas Day" (handout and web),"Traits of Indian Character" (handout and web), "Philip of Pokanoket" (handout and web), "Rip Van Winkle" (NA 953-965), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (NA 965-985)	Irving wiki page Beinicke Exhibit on The Illustrating Traveler Nineteenth-century American Landscapes Sketches in .pdf format table of contents of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. e-text of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. "The Ballad of the Headless Horseman"
January 30	James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)	Cooper wiki page Twain, "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" Cooper's discussion of American literature in Notions of the Americans (1828) Cooper, Notions of the Americans in Google Books
February 4	Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, continued ; Statements from the Debate on Indian Removal	Andrew Jackson's second State of the Nation address, including comments on Indian Removal (December 6, 1830), and excerpts from his seventh State of the Nation address, including comments on a Permanent Habitation for the American Indians (December 7, 1835) The Removal Act of 1830 Statements by James Monroe and Edward Everett on United States Indian Policy Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia, 1831 (edited version) or Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia, 1831 (full text) Worcester v. The State of Georgia, 1832 (edited version) or Worcester v. The State of Georgia, 1832 (full text) The 1992 film version of The Last of the Mohicans in the Internet Movie Database
February 6	William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston (1836) (in A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, pages 103-138; also available in On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot pages 275-310), "Native Americans: Removal and Resistance" (NA 1252-3), Boudinot, "To the Public" (1828) (NA 1260-3); "The Cherokee Memorials," (NA 1263-1268)	wiki page on Apess, Boudinot and "The Cherokee Memorials" Eulogy on King Philip in the Memorial Hall Museum (note that you can click on either "show text" or "show image") Eulogy on King Philip in American History and Culture Online (allows download of .pdf in fifty-page sections) Apess in the Heath Anthology of American Literature website A lecture advertised in the Salem Gazette An advertisement for an 1836 lecture
February 7	screening of "The Last of the Mohicans," 7:30 pm, Barnard 409
February 11	Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) (NA 1110-1138)	wiki page on Nature Reading notes Nature handout Emerson, "The Transcendentalist" Ralph Waldo Emerson site (Jone Johnson) Hanover College Emerson site Andrew Melrose, "Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way" (1867)
February 13	Emerson, Nature, continued.
February 18	Emerson, continued: The American Scholar (1837) (NA 1138-1151), The Divinity School Address (1838) (NA 1151-1163), "Self-Reliance" (1841) (NA 1163-1180)	wiki page on Emerson's self-reliance texts Reading notes Emersons's Writings (Searchable texts in HTML format) "The Lord's Supper" (1832) William Ellery Channing: Unitarian Christianity (1819) (another edition) "The Moral Argument Against Calvinism" (1820)
February 20	Emerson, continued: "Experience" (1844) (NA 1195-1210), "John Brown" (1860) (NA 1211-1213), "The Poet" (1844) (NA 1180-1195)	wiki page for "Experience," "John Brown," and "The Poet" Reading notes David W. Hill, "Emerson's Eumenides: Textual Evidence and the Interpretation of 'Experience'" in Emerson Centenary Essays, ed. Joel Myerson. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1982), 107-121.
February 25	Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) (NA 2195-2209), "Song of Myself" from Leaves of Grass (1855, 1881) (NA 2210-2254), "Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1856) (NA 2289-2296)	Reading notes Cowley on Whitman Emerson's letter to Whitman on Leaves of Grass Engraving of Whitman from 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture lecture by R. Eden Martin on Whitman editions, including photographs of various editions
February 27	Whitman, continued.
March 3	Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854) (NA 1872-2046)	Wiki page on Walden Reading notes Thoreau materials The Thoreau Reader: The Annotated Works of Henry David Thoreau (includes photos of Walden Pond and a link to a free model cabin kit you can print and build) Walden (hypertext edition)
March 5	Walden, continued. DUE: ESSAY #1
March 10	Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) (NA 2060-2129)	Reading notes Douglass resources Douglass's writings in the collection of North American Slave Narratives at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Douglass Frontispieces: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) My Bondage and My Freedom (1855) The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881)
March 12	Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (3-105)	Reading notes Margaret Fuller Home Page Life without and life within; or, Reviews, narratives, essays, and poems (1869) (electronic text) Massachusetts Ministers on the Public Role of Women, Pastoral Letter (1837) Suffrage texts
March 17	* SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS
March 19	* SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS
March 24	Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet--To Science" (1829, 1845) (NA 1532),"The Raven" (1845) (NA 1536-1539), "Ligeia" (1838) (NA 1543-1553), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) (NA 1553-1565), "William Wilson. A Tale" (1839) (NA 1566-1579), "The Imp of the Perverse" (1842) (online)	Reading notes Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
March 26	Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) (NA 1352-1493)	Reading notes etext at Project Bartleby Nathaniel Hawthorne home page by Eric Eldred
March 31	The Scarlet Letter, continued
April 2	Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (Read at least to the end of chapter 42, pp. xxxvii-212 in the Penguin edition.) *DUE: MOBY-DICK* ASSIGNMENT, CHS. 1-42**	Reading notes Life and Works of Herman Melville Heimert, "Moby-Dick and American Political Symbolism" Child, The Taking of Naboth's Vineyard or, History of the Texas Conspiracy . . . Melville and Hawthorne
April 7	Moby-Dick, continued (Read at least to the end of chapter 82, p. 398 in the Penguin edition.) *DUE: MOBY-DICK* ASSIGNMENT, CHS. 43-82**	Cyberscrimshaw Political cartoons in the Library of Congress: The Shipwreck (1840) The ship of state on a lee shore, experienced hands coming to her rescue (1840) Texas coming in (1844) The whale that swallowed Jonah (1855)
April 9	Moby-Dick, continued (Finish the novel.) DUE: MOBY-DICK ASSIGNMENT, CHS. 83-EPILOGUE	Last-Minute Book Report
April 14	Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) (Read at least to the end of chapter 30, p. 386 in the Barnes & Noble Classics edition.)	Reading notes handout from Beecher, Treatise on Domestic Economy Beecher, Treatise on Domestic Economy (full text) Stowe and Beecher, The American Woman's Home "British Philanthropy and American Slavery," DeBow's Review 14.3 (March 1853): 258-280. Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive
April 16	Uncle Tom's Cabin, continued (Finish the novel.); Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)	Reading notes The Norton Anthology's Stowe links Robert S. Levine, "Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception," American Literature 64.1 (March 1992): 71-93 Harriet Beecher Stowe House Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Touching Liberty Harriet Jacobs resources and electronic text Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Touching Liberty Ellen Driscoll, "Loophole of Retreat" (1991)
April 21	* NO CLASS
April 23	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, continued
April 28	Emily Dickinson, (Franklin edition) Poems 39, 112, 123, 124, 146, 194, 202, 207, 236, 256, 279, 320, 365, 373, 407, 409, 411, 446, 466, 477, 576, 598, 760, 788, 895, 1096, 1263, 1577, (NA 2558-2597) plus selected additional poems (handout)	reading notes Handout with additional poems Dickinson Electronic Archives (Virginia) The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem exhibit on the continuing evolution of Poem 585 1924 Poems Higginson, "Letter to a Young Contributor," Atlantic Monthly 9.54 (April 1862): 401-411. Link to Johnson edition of poems 1-1775
April 30	Dickinson, continued Poems 225, 269, 339, 355, 359, 372, 381, 448, 479, 588, 591, 620, 648, 764, 857, 935, 1665 (NA 2558-2597) plus selected additional poems (handout) Link to Johnson edition of poems 1-1775 DUE: ESSAY #2	Emily Dickinson Page (U of Minnesota) The Dickinson Homestead The Emily Dickinson International Society Archive of EMWEB mailing list (BYU) Philip Gura, "How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson" Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Touching Liberty
May 5	Conclusion: Whitman, Drum-Taps (1865) (excerpts in NA 2275-2282 plus handout); Melville, Battle Pieces and Aspects of War (1866) (excerpts in NA 2461-2465 plus handout)	reading notes Handout with additional poems "Politics and Poetics: The Reception of Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War" The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Poems and Songs of the American Civil War
May 7	OPTIONAL REVIEW SESSION

FINAL EXAMINATION scheduled by registrar, currently listed Monday, May 12 at 9 am in Milbank 328.

BC 3180 SCHEDULE OF READINGS Spring 2008 Professor Gordis

BC 3180 SCHEDULE OF READINGS
Spring 2008
Professor Gordis