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Please
have the reading for the week finished before the Wednesday discussion
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Discussion
leaders will be asked to provide discussion papers for the class as well as a
bibliography of secondary materials for each reading.
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Date |
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Friday, Jan. 23 |
Spengemann, “What is American Literature?” |
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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) |
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Friday, Jan. 30 |
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Wednesday, Feb. 4 |
Thoreau, Walden, “Civil Disobedience” (1849-54) |
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Friday, Feb. 6 |
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Wednesday, Feb. 11 |
Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave, Written by Himself (1845) |
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Friday, Feb. 13 |
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Wednesday, Feb. 18 |
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Friday, Feb. 20 |
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Wednesday, Feb. 25 |
Melville, Moby Dick (1851) |
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Friday, Feb. 27 |
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Wednesday, March 3 |
. . . Moby Dick |
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Friday, March 5 |
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Wednesday, March 10 |
Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) |
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Friday, March 12 |
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Spring Break: March 13 – 28
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Wednesday, March 31 |
Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) |
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Friday, Apr. 2 |
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Wednesday, Apr. 7 |
Whitman, selections TBA |
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Friday, Apr. 9 |
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Wednesday, Apr. 14 |
Whitman,
selections TBA |
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Friday, Apr. 16 |
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Wednesday, Apr. 21 |
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Friday, Apr. 23 |
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Wednesday, Apr. 28 |
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Friday, April 30 |
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Wednesday, May 5 |
Course
wrap |