LITR 4232: American Renaissance
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Student Presentations, spring 2001

Click on links below to review summaries of student presentations. Page numbers in summaries are to the third edition of The Heath Anthology of American Literature.

Pam Buhler, selection reading from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Sheila Newell, selection readings from "Rip Van Winkle," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and The Last of the Mohicans

Kellie Keener, selection readings from The Last of the Mohicans

Keely Coufal, selection reading from The Last of the Mohicans

Cleo Huval-Moore, selection reading from The Last of the Mohicans

Charley Bevill, selection readings from Sojourner Truth, William Apess, & John Quinney

Jessica Hayman, selection reading from Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Lisa Runnels, selection reading from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments

Barbara Sharp, selection reading from Emerson's Nature and "Self-Reliance"

Linda Quarles, selection readings from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Lacy Lakner, selection readings from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Will Frith, selection readings from Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"

Lydia Gonzales, selection readings from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin

Lynne Anderson, reading from Edgar Allan Poe, "The City in the Sea"

Erin Gouner, selection readings from Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"

Joni Thrasher, selection readings from Frances Sargent Locke Osgood, "Ellen Learning to Walk" and "Lines"

Anonymous (red), selection readings from Fanny Fern

Joanne Hale, selection readings from "The Virgin of Guadalupe" and other Southwestern literature

Lisa Lovett, selection readings from Herman Melville, Billy Budd (first half)

Allison Amaya, selection readings from Herman Melville, Billy Budd (second half)

Cynnamon Coufal, selection readings from "There Was a Child Went Forth" and Song of Myself

Douglas Goforth, selection readings from Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"

Robert Buffum, selection readings from Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address" and "Second Inaugural Address"

Thomas Parker, selection readings from Walt Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Kelly Figueroa, selection readings from the poetry of Emily Dickinson