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Week 1 07.11.11 |
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Monday: |
Basic introduction
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Critical Analysis |
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Guidelines for Reading |
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• demo-introduction |
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• demo-conflict |
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Tuesday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 1-2 (stop at "Exploration and Colonization")
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Classifications of Folk Tales and Myth |
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Archetypes and Symbol |
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• demo |
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Wednesday: |
• Native American Folk Tales supplemental handout
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe "How Fire Came to the Alabamas and Coushattas"
Tlingit Tribe
Iroquois-Language Tribes
.: for comparison: King James Version of Genesis
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• Iroquois Leaque, from "The Constitution of the Five Nations" p 37
.: full version of the Iroquois Nation Constitution |
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• Iroquois LeaqueConstitution comparison to U.S. Constitution |
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Thursday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 2-4 (stop at "The Renaissance, the Reformation, and Cultural Change")
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 10-11
• Christopher Columbus pp 14 - 22
The Complete Christopher Columbus Letter:
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Facsimile |
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The Latin Transcription |
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Translated |
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• demo-timeline overview |
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• Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies supplemental handout
• Apologetic History of the Indies
• Tears of the Indians: Reproduction of the first English translation |
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Friday: |
• Anthology of American Literature: pp 4-9
• John Smith, bio: pp 41-42 |
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from A Description of New England pp 55-61, 63 |
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The Complete Text from John Smith |
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• William Bradford, bio: pp 80-81 |
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from History of Plymouth Plantation pp 81-85 (Chapters 1, 3, 4) |
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• demo-Causes and Effects |
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Week 2 07.18.11 |
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Monday: |
Thomas Taylor, Meditations from the Creatures |
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.: for comparison sonnets attributed to William Shakespeare |
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• demo-Puritan Beliefs |
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• Jonathan Edwards, bio: pp 301-302 |
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"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (Consideration #9) pp 322-323 |
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"Images or Shadows of Divine Things" supplemental |
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• demo-Ideologies-PART 1 |
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• Assignment 1, due Monday August 01 |
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• Library Orientation |
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Tuesday: |
.: for comparison John Donne, “Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed” |
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• demo-Idealogies-PART 2 |
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John Cotton "God's Promise to His Plantation" sermon
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"The Divine Right to Occupy the Land" sermon supplemental |
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• John Winthrop, bio: pp 114-115 |
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A Model of Christian Charity pp 135-136, last paragraph (“A City Upon a Hill" sermon) |
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The Complete Journals and Letters of John Winthrop |
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• William Bradford |
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from History of Plymouth Plantation pp 90-92 (from Chapter 10) |
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• demo-Idealogies-PART 3 |
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Wednesday: |
• William Bradford, "Mr. Roger Williams"p 101 |
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• Roger Williams, bio: 136-137 |
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"Of Eating and Entertainment" p 138 |
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"Of Their Persons and Parts of Body" p 139 |
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"Of Their Nakedness and Clothing p 141 |
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• demo-Roger Williams |
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State of Rhode Island considering changing its name |
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• John Winthrop, Journals of John Winthrop |
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September 1638: p 119 |
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The Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson at the Court at Newton pp 29-33 |
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December 13, 1638: p 119 |
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June 4, 1648: pp 124-125 |
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August 15, 1648: p 125 |
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Thursday: |
• Cotton Mather, bio: pp 200-201 |
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from The Wonders of the Invisible World pp 202-205 |
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"A Third Curiosity" p 211 |
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The Complete Text of The Wonders of the Invisible World:
Observations as Well Historical as Theological, upon the Nature,
the Number, and the Operations of the Devils |
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• demo-women |
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Friday: |
• Anne Bradstreet, bio: pp 152-153
"Prologue" pp 154-155 |
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"Contemplations" pp 156-162 |
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• demo-Bradstreet |
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Week 3 07.25.11 |
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Monday: |
• demo-Public versus Private Voices
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• Anne Bradstreet |
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"The Author to Her Book" p 165 |
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"Before the Birth of Her Children" p 165 |
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"A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" pp 166-167 |
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• demo-Protestantism |
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Tuesday: |
• Anne Bradstreet
"Upon the Burning of Our House" pp 171-173 |
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• demo-"Upon the Burning of Our House" |
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• demo-ballads |
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Wednesday: |
•Edward Taylor, bio: pp 184-185
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"Prologue" p 185 |
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To contrast with Taylor: William Shakespeare, monologue from Hamlet |
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“Meditations” (#6, #8, #38) pp 187-190 |
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•Final Project expectations |
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• Review
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Thursday: |
Midterm |
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Friday: |
• Red Jacket, bio: p 683-684 |
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The Indians Must Worship The Great Spirit in their Own Way pp 684-685 |
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• Thomas Jefferson, bio: pp 515-517 |
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Original Draft with Revisions of the Declaration of Independence p 559, first two paragraphs |
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from Notes on the State of Virginia pp 531-539 |
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• demo-democracy |
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• Phillis Wheatley, bio: pp 603 |
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"On Being Brought from Africa to America" p 605 |
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"On Imagination" p 607 |
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"To S.M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works" p 608 |
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"Ocean" — poem from the intended second edition
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• demo-Phillis Wheatley / Benjamin Rush |
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• demo-slavery |
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• Cornell University: Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection |
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• Anti-Slavery Essay 1773: Benjam Rush |
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Week 4 08.01.11 |
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Monday: |
• Washington Irving, bio: p 739-740 |
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" p 756 |
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• The Castle of Indolence John Thomson: early publication modernized language publication |
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• Assignment 1 due |
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Tuesday: |
• Edgar Allan Poe, bio: 880-882 |
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“The Fall of the House of Usher” p 891 |
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“Sonnet — Silence” p 885 |
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• demo-Poe and the Gothic Tradition |
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• demo-Poe and the Sonnet |
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Last Day to Drop Class with a 'W'
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Wednesday: |
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, bio: pp 1067-1069 |
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“The Minister's Black Veil” p 1112 |
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• demo-comparisons/contrasts of Poe and Hawthorne |
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Thurs.-Friday: |
• Walt Whitman, bio: pp 2055-2057
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• demo-Whitman |
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• "Song of Myself"-demo, 1892 edition |
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section 01, p 2072 |
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section 05, p 2075 |
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section 11, p 2079 |
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section 51, pp 2117-2118 |
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Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass p 2057-2072 (selected passages) |
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Week 5 08.08.11 |
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Monday: |
• Walt Whitman, "As Adam Early in the Morning" p 2122
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"The Sleepers" supplemental |
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• Edgar Allan Poe "A Dream Within a Dream" supplemental |
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• demo-Whitman and Poe |
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Tuesday: |
• Emily Dickinson, bio: pp 2177-2178
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• demo-Dickinson |
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#365 ("Because I Could Not Stop for Death") p 2192 |
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#241 ("I Like a Look of Agony") p 2181 |
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Detail of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini —Full image |
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#216 ("Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers") p 2181 |
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# 754 ("My Life Had Stood — A Loaded Gun") supplemental |
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Letter to T. W. Higginson, 25 April 1862 supplemental
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• Final Project Due |
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Wednesday: |
Final Exam
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