Course
description and goals
Course
calendar
Resources
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Apocalyptic
Hope: Literature of the American Renaissance
Wednesday
and Friday, 8:30 - 9:50, D38
John
Sheehy
Tentative
Course Calendar
- Please
have the reading for the week finished before the Wednesday
discussion
- Discussion
leaders will be asked to provide discussion papers for the class
as well as a bibliography of secondary materials for each reading.
| Date
|
Reading
for the
Day |
Friday,
Jan. 23 |
Spengemann,
“What is American Literature?” |
Wednesday,
Jan. 28 |
Emerson:
“Nature,” “The American Scholar,” “An Address,” “History,”
“Self-Reliance,” “Spiritual Laws,” “The Over-Soul,” “Circles,”
“Experience,” “New England Reformers,” “John Brown,” “Thoreau,”
“Abraham Lincoln” (1830-50) |
Friday,
Jan. 30 |
Wednesday,
Feb. 4 |
Thoreau,
Walden , “Civil Disobedience” (1849-54) |
Friday,
Feb. 6 |
Wednesday,
Feb. 11 |
Douglass,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave, Written by Himself (1845) |
Friday,
Feb. 13 |
Wednesday,
Feb. 18 |
Hawthorne
, The Scarlet Letter
(1850) |
Friday,
Feb. 20 |
Wednesday,
Feb. 25 |
Melville
, Moby Dick (1851) |
Friday,
Feb. 27 |
Wednesday,
March 3 |
.
. . Moby Dick |
Friday,
March 5 |
Wednesday,
March 10 |
Stowe,
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) |
Friday,
March 12 |
Spring
Break: March 13 – 28 |
Wednesday,
March 31 |
Jacobs,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) |
Friday,
Apr. 2 |
Wednesday,
Apr. 7 |
Whitman,
selections TBA |
Friday,
Apr. 9 |
Wednesday,
Apr. 14 |
Whitman,
selections TBA |
Friday,
Apr. 16 |
Wednesday,
Apr. 21 |
Dickinson
, selections TBA |
Friday,
Apr. 23 |
Wednesday,
Apr. 28 |
Dickinson
, selections TBA |
Friday,
April 30 |
Wednesday,
May 5 |
Course
wrap |
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