LITR 4232:
American Renaissance
Student Presentations Index
Reading & Presentation
Schedule: Spring Semester 2003
(Except for The
Last of the Mohicans, all page numbers refer to The
Heath Anthology of American Literature, v. 1, 4th ed., Paul
Lauter, ed.)
Thursday, 23
January: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter thirteen (through p. 133
in Penguin Classics edition.)
Reader: Claire Garza
Discussion notes:
Robert S. Andresakis
Tuesday, 4 February: William
Apess (Pequot), 1397-1403. Elias
Boudinot, 1409-1418. Seattle (Duwamish), 1418-1422.
Sojourner Truth, 2023-2029, + Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Sojourner Truth,
the Libyan Sibyl,” 2530-2538.
Reader: Sara Curtis
Discussion notes:
Jody Danielle Newmann
Thursday, 6 February: Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 1512-1518 (introduction and opening of Nature),
1555-1560 (opening of “Self-Reliance”),
“Concord Hymn” 1603.
Reader: Doug Carey
Discussion notes:
Claire Garza
Tuesday,
11 February: Sarah Margaret Fuller (introduction,
1626-28); from Woman in the Nineteenth
Century, 1631-1641; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2038-44.
Reader: Laurie Eckhart
Discussion notes:
Jennifer M. Davis
Thursday,
13 February: Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1960-1985.
Reader: Simone Rieck
Discussion notes:
Doug Carey
Tuesday, 18 February:
Frederick Douglass, 1814-1880 (Narrative
of the Life . . . + opening of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of
July?” (1881-82)
Reader: Jennifer M. Davis
Discussion notes:
Kathy Martin
Thursday, 20 February:
Henry David Thoreau, 1669-1686 (introduction + “Resistance to Civil
Government”)
Reader: Kristine Vermillion
Discussion notes:
Sandra Burkhalter
Tuesday,
11 March: Edgar Allan Poe. Introduction,
2387-89. “Sonnet—To Science”
2457; “Romance” 2458; “The City in the Sea” 2461-2; “Annabel Lee”
2473-4.
Reader: Jody Danielle Newmann
Discussion notes:
Sara Sills
Thursday,
13 March: Poe, “Ligeia” 2390-2400; “The Fall
of the House of Usher” 2400-2413. Research Project Proposal due.
Reader: Robert S. Andresakis
Discussion notes:
Kristine Vermillion
Tuesday, 18 March: Nathaniel
Hawthorne, introduction 2170-2173. “The
Minister’s Black Veil,” 2195-2203.
Reader: Lydia Dennis
Discussion notes:
Simone Rieck
Thursday, 20 March:
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” 2186-2195.
Thursday,
27 March: “History of the Miraculous Apparition
of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531,” Mariano Guadalupe Vellejo, 1468-1477;
Frederick Law Olmsted, 1492-95.
Reader: Marie Brookreson
Discussion notes:
Lydia Dennis
Thursday, 3 April:
Melville, Billy Budd (complete; through page 2714)
Reader: Corrie Lawrence
Discussion notes:
Lisa Bailey
Thursday, 10 April: Walt Whitman,
introduction 2846-9. “There Was a
Child Went Forth” (handout), selections from Song
of Myself (2863-2914)
pp. 2863-2867 [sections 1-5]
2877-8 [19]
2879-80 [21]
2882-2884 [24]
2888-2896 [32-34]
2908-14 [46-52]
Reader: Sandra Burkhalter
Discussion notes: Dawn Dobson
Thursday, 17 April:
Project due.
Hawthorne, from Abraham Lincoln
2378-79. Abraham Lincoln, 2007-2011.
Reader: Dawn E. Dobson
Discussion notes:
Sara Curtis
Tuesday, 22 April:
Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (2941-2948)
Reader: Deterrean Gamble
Discussion notes:
Laurie Eckhart
Thursday, 24 April:
Emily Dickinson, introduction 2969-74
2975 "I never lost as much but twice"
2976 "These are the days when Birds come back--"
2977 "Come Slowly--Eden!"
2977 "I like a look of Agony"
2977 "Wild Nights"
2978 "There's a certain slant of light"
2979 "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"
2979 "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"
Reader: Lisa Bailey
Discussion notes:
Corrie Lawrence
Tuesday, 29 April:
Dickinson
2981 "I reason, Earth is short--"
2981 "The Soul selects her own Society--"
2982-3 "It sifts from Leaden Sieves--" [riddle poem]
2983-4 "There came a Day at Summer's full"
2984 "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church--"
2984-5 "A Bird came down the Walk--"
2985 "I know that He exists."
2985 "After great pain, a formal feeling comes--"
3015-3019 letters to T. W. Higginson
1957-1959 T. W. Higginson, “Letter to Mrs. Higginson on Emily Dickinson”
Reader: Sara Sills
Discussion notes:
Deterrean Gamble