This schedule is subject to change. I will keep you updated by way of messages on My JCU.
Week One:
Puritanism to The American Revolution: Bradstreet, Franklin, Jefferson
Monday, May 23: Puritans: Winnebago Trickster Tale, John Winthrop, Columbus Anne Bradstreet
Tuesday, May 24: Puritan Beliefs: TULIP, Anne Bradstreet: Contemplations. Cotton Mather (from Magnalia Christi Americana); Jonathan Edwards:
Wednesday, May 25: Benjamin Franklin: from the Authobiography; Thomas Jefferson. (from the Autobiography: “The Declaration of Independence”).
Thursday, May 26: Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle.
Week Two
Transcendentalism: Emerson and Thoreau
Monday, May 30 Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, The Divinity School Address,
Tuesday, May 31 Emerson History, Poetry, Thoreau, Walden
Wednesday, June 1 Thoreau: Walden
Thursday, June 2: HOLIDAY
Week Three
Tellers of Dark Tales: Hawthorne, Melville, Poe
Monday, June 6 Hawthorne: My Kinsman, Major Molineaux
Tuesday, June 7 Hawthorne: The Minister’s Black Veil
Wednesday, June 8 Mellville: Benito Cereno
Thursday, June 9 Melville: Bartelby the Scrivener
Friday, June 10 (make-up class) Edgar Allen Poe: The Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher
American Poetry of the 19th Century? (Longfellow, Whiteman, Dickinson)
Monday, June 13: Whitman,
Tuesday, June 14 Walt Whitman: From Song of Myself (refers back to Emerson’s The Poet. Dickinson
Wednesday, June 15 Emily Dickinson
Thursday, June 16 Mark Twain (Excerpts from Huckleberry Finn and Life on the Mississippi)
Some 20th Century (Re)Considerations:
Monday, June 20 Robert Frost: Puritanism, Emerson, and Thoreau revisited
Tuesday, June 21 Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdritch: Native American Literature today
Wednesday, June 22 Edward Abbey: The Serpents of Paradise (Walden Two)
Thursday, June 23 Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes
Final Exam:
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