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AMERICAN LITERATURE I: SYLLABUS
PART I: THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN VALUES Week 1: Introduction: Class Format, Expectations, & Responsibilities Overview of Themes Week 2: Entering the Wilderness: Perspectives, Values, & Definitions
John Smith
A Description of
New England 114-117
William Bradford
Of
Plymouth
Plantation (selections)
168 ("But here I cannot. . .")- 169 ("His wonderful works")
“Indian Relations” 176-179
"Thomas Morton of Merrymount" 179-183
"A Horrible Case of Bestiality" 190-191
John Winthrop
A Model of Christian Charity (section II) 214-217
Cotton Mather
A People of God in the Devil's Territories 392-397
Week 3: Commonsense Realism & Quaker Morality
Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth 515-522
Autobiography 591 (mid-page “It was. . .”)-599
Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America 534-537
John Woolman
Some Consideration On The Keeping Of Negroes 619-626
Weeks 4-5: Defining The American Experience
Thomas Jefferson et al
The Declaration of
Independence 726-732
J. Hector St. Jean De Crévecoeur
Letters from an American Farmer (selections)
"What Is an American" 657-667
"Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on Slavery. . ." 671-675
"Distresses of a Frontier Man" 677-682
Phillis Wheatley
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” 810
“To the University of Cambridge, in New England” 813
“To S.M., a Young African Painter. . .” 818
letter to Rev. Samson Occom 823
Washington Irving
Rip van Winkle 980-992
PART II: THE FLOWERING OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Week 6:
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Transcendentalism
Self-Reliance 1160-1176
The Poet 1177-1191
Week 7: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Young Goodman Brown 1263-1272
The Minister’s Black Veil
Week 8: Henry David Thoreau
Life Without Principle 2016-2029
Resistance To Civil Government 1792-1807
Week 9: Thoreau II
Walden, or Life in the Woods(selections)
"Economy" 1807-1850
"Conclusion" 1974-1982
Week 10: Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher 1534-1547
William Wilson 1547-1561
Week 11: Outsiders
Margaret Fuller
The Great Lawsuit 1620-1632
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 2032-2097
Weeks 12 & 13: Walt Whitman & The Democratic Imagination
Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) 2131-2145
Song of Myself 2147-2189
Week 14:
Herman Melville (if time allows)
Benito Cereno
Week 15: Emily Dickinson poem # 1129, 49, 1732, 199, 241, 249, 303, 315, 341,
448, 449, 632, 712, 1078, 1255
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