Tuesday, 17 January 2006: Introduction; concept of "The American Renaissance"

Thursday, 19 January 2006: Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."  

Tuesday, 24 January 2006: conclude Irving, begin James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, chapters 1-3 (pages 1-35 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Thursday, 26 January 2006: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter thirteen (through p. 133 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Tuesday, 31 January 2006: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter twenty-four (through p. 254 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Thursday, 2 February 2006: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, (complete, through p. 350 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Tuesday, 7 February: William Apess (Pequot) (1459-1465).  Seattle (Duwamish) (1472-1475).  Sojourner Truth (2092-2100) + Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl” (2601-2610).

Thursday, 9 February: Ralph Waldo Emerson, introduction (1578-1581) + opening 5 pages of Nature) (1582-1589), opening 5 pages of “Self-Reliance” (1621-1626);  “Concord Hymn.” 1669

Tuesday, 14 February: Sarah Margaret Fuller, introduction (1692-95) + from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1697-1719); Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2109-15).

Thursday, 16 February: Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (2029-2056)

Tuesday, 21 February: Frederick Douglass, introduction + Narrative of the Life . . . + opening of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1879-1945; 1946-7) (In Narrative, Douglass's writing actually begins on p. 1889)

Thursday, 23 February 2006: Henry David Thoreau, (introduction + “Resistance to Civil Government”)

Tuesday, 28 February: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read introduction (2547-49) + selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Chapter I: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity (2549-2556); Ch. VII: The Mother’s Struggle (2556-2561); Ch. XL: The Martyr (2583-2585)

Thursday, 2 March: midterm exam

Tuesday, 7 March: Edgar Allan Poe.  Introduction (2459-62).  “Sonnet—To Science” (2529); “Romance” (2530); “The City in the Sea” (2533); “Annabel Lee” (2545).

Thursday, 9 March: Poe, “Ligeia” (2462-2472); “The Fall of the House of Usher” (2472-2486). Research Project Proposal due.  

Tuesday, 21 March: Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction (2242-2245) +  “The Minister’s Black Veil” (2267-76)

Thursday, 23 March: Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” (2258-67)

Tuesday, 28 March: Herman Melville, introduction + begin Billy Budd (through section 17)

Thursday, 30 March: Melville, Billy Budd (complete)

Tuesday, 4 April: Walt Whitman, introduction +  “There Was a Child Went Forth” (handout) + selections from Song of Myself : sections 1-5, 19, 21, 24, 32-34, 46-52.

Thursday, 6 April: Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.”

Tuesday, 11 April: Hawthorne, from Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” + “Second Inaugural Address.” 

Thursday, 13 April: Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”

Tuesday, 18 April: Project due. Emily Dickinson, introduction + "I like a look of Agony" "Wild Nights" "There's a certain slant of light" "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"

Thursday, 20 April: Dickinson, second meeting: "I never lost as much but twice" "These are the days when Birds come back--" "Come Slowly--Eden!" "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" "I reason, Earth is short--" "The Soul selects her own Society--" "It sifts from Leaden Sieves--" [riddle poem] letters to T. W. Higginson

Tuesday, 25 April: Dickinson, third meeting: "There came a Day at Summer's full" "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church--" "A Bird came down the Walk--" "I know that He exists." "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--" "Dare you see a Soul at the white heat?" "A Route of Evanescence" [riddle poem]

Thursday, 27 April: Dickinson, fourth meething: "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--" "This World is not Conclusion." "I started Early--Took my Dog--" "I cannot live with You--" "Because I could not stop for Death--" "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"

Tuesday, 4 May, 10:00am-12:50pm: final exam