Thursday, 26 August: Washington Irving, 2071-72; “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” 2081-2112.

Reader: Jessica Lightle

Tuesday, 31 August: conclude Irving, begin James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, chapters 1-3 (pages 1-35 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Web-highlighter: Daniel Davis

Thursday, 2 September: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter thirteen (through p. 133 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Reader: Sherry Mann

Tuesday, 7 September: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter twenty-four (through p. 254 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Reader: Joseph Leber

Thursday, 9 September: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, (complete, through p. 350 in Penguin Classics edition.)

Reader: Mary Tinsley

Tuesday, 14 September: 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: Bryan Peterson

Thursday, 16 September: Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1512-1518 (introduction and opening of Nature), 1555-1560 (opening of “Self-Reliance”),  “Concord Hymn” 1603.

Reader: Jennifer Horner

Tuesday, 21 September: Sarah Margaret Fuller (introduction, 1626-28); from Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1631-1641; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 2038-44.

Reader: Melanie Braselton

Thursday, 23 September: Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1960-1985.

Reader: Liz Davis

Tuesday, 28 September: Frederick Douglass, 1814-1880 (Narrative of the Life . . . + opening of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” (1881-82)

Reader: Tina Pequeno

Thursday, 30 September: Henry David Thoreau, 1669-1686 (introduction + “Resistance to Civil Government”)

Web-highlighter: Natalie Cizmar

Tuesday, 5 October: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read 2475-78 (introduction for Stowe) + selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; 2478-85 (Chapter I: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity); 2485-2490 (Ch. VII: The Mother’s Struggle); 2499-2505 (Ch. XIII: The Quaker Settlement); 2512-2514 (Ch. XL: The Martyr); 2514-2517 (Ch. XLI: The Young Master); 2518-2522 (from Preface to the First Illustrated Edition of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Reader: Audra Caldwell

Thursday, 7 October: midterm exam

Tuesday, 12 October: Edgar Allan Poe.  Introduction, 2387-89.  “Sonnet—To Science” 2457; “Romance” 2458; “The City in the Sea” 2461-2; “Annabel Lee” 2473-4.

Reader: Jennifer Baker

Web-highlighter: Tina Pequeno

Thursday, 14 October: Poe, “Ligeia” 2390-2400; “The Fall of the House of Usher” 2400-2413. Research Project Proposal due.

Reader: Natalie Cizmar

Tuesday, 19 October: Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction 2170-2173.  “The Minister’s Black Veil,” 2195-2203.

Reader: Rhonda Bender

Thursday, 21 October: Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” 2186-2195.

Reader: Laura Jones

Tuesday, 26 October: Frances Sargent Locke Osgood, 2829-31; “Ellen Learning to Walk” (2831-2); "The Little Hand" (2832-3); “Lines” (2836-7); Fanny Fern, 2030-2038.

Web-highlighter: Audra Caldwell

Thursday, 28 October: “History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531,” Mariano Guadalupe Vellejo, 1468-1477; Frederick Law Olmsted, 1492-95.

Reader: Juliana Davila

Tuesday, 2 November: Herman Melville, introduction 2550-54; begin Billy Budd 2656-87 (through section 17)

Web-highlighter: Jessica Lightle

Thursday, 4 November: Melville, Billy Budd (complete; through page 2714)

Reader: Linsey Allnatt

Tuesday, 9 November: 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: Bonnie Napoli

Thursday, 11 November: Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (handout);

Web-highlighter: Laura Jones

Tuesday, 16 November: Project due.

Hawthorne, from Abraham Lincoln 2378-79. Abraham Lincoln, 2007-2011.

Reader: Bryan Lestarjette

Thursday, 18 November: Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (2941-2948);

Reader: Brian Saxton

Tuesday, 23 November: 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: Daniel Davis

Web-highlighter: Jennifer Horner

Thursday, 25 November: No meeting—Thanksgiving Holiday

Tuesday, 30 November: 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”

Web-highlighter: Linsey Allnatt

Thursday, 2 December: Dickinson

2986 "Dare you see a Soul at the white heat?"; 2989 "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--"; 2989-90 "This World is not Conclusion."; 2990-91 "I started Early--Took my Dog--"; 2994-96 "I cannot live with You--"; 2998-9 "Because I could not stop for Death--"; 3001-2 "A narrow Fellow in the Grass"; 3006 "A Route of Evanescence" [riddle poem]

Web-highlighter: Mary Tinsley

Tuesday, 7 December, 10:00am-12:50pm: final exam