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LITERATURE 4232: American Renaissance Spring 2006, UHCL Instructor: Craig White 11:30-12:50 T & Th, Bayou 2230 Office: 2529-8 Bayou email: whitec@uhcl.edu Phone: (281) 283-3380 Office Hours: & by appointment Caveat: Data stated and contracts implied in this syllabus may change with minimal notice in fair hearings at class meetings. Presentation schedule: Spring
Semester 2006 (Except for The Last of the Mohicans, all page numbers refer to The Heath Anthology of American Literature: 1800-1865, 5th ed., Paul Lauter, ed.) Tuesday, 17 January: Introduction; concept of "The American Renaissance"
Thursday, 19 January: Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (handouts) Web-highlighter: Melissa S. Jones Tuesday, 24 January: conclude Irving, begin James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, chapters 1-3 (pages 1-35 in Penguin Classics edition.) Reader: Becky Mobley Thursday, 26 January: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter thirteen (through p. 133 in Penguin Classics edition.) Reader: Julie O’Gea Tuesday, 31 January: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through chapter twenty-four (through p. 254 in Penguin Classics edition.) Reader: Kyle Rahe Web-highlighter: Amy Breazeale (midterms on Mohicans) Thursday, 2 February: Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, (complete, through p. 350 in Penguin Classics edition.) Web-highlighter: Sarah Hardwick (midterms on Mohicans) Tuesday, 7 February: William Apess (Pequot). Seattle (Duwamish). Sojourner Truth + Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Sojourner Truth, the Libyan Sibyl.” Thursday, 9 February: Ralph Waldo Emerson, introduction + opening 5 pages of Nature), opening 5 pages of “Self-Reliance,” “Concord Hymn.” Reader: Kate Barrack Tuesday, 14 February: Sarah Margaret Fuller, introduction + from Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Thursday, 16 February: Harriet Ann Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Reader: Neelam Damani Tuesday, 21 February: Frederick Douglass, introduction + (Narrative of the Life . . . + opening of “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Reader: Kyle Phillips Thursday, 23 February: Henry David Thoreau, introduction + “Resistance to Civil Government” Reader: Joe Myers Tuesday, 28 February: Harriet Beecher Stowe. Read introduction + selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Chapter I: In Which the Reader is Introduced to a Man of Humanity; Ch. VII: The Mother’s Struggle; Ch. XL: The Martyr) Web-highlighter: Amanda Matt (any LITR 4232 midterms) Thursday, 2 March: midterm exam Tuesday, 7 March: Edgar Allan Poe. Introduction. “Sonnet—To Science”; “Romance”; “The City in the Sea”; “Annabel Lee.” Reader: Cana Hauerland Thursday,
9 March: Poe, “Ligeia”; “The Fall of the
House of Usher.” Research Project
Proposal due. Reader: Heidi Gerke Tuesday, 14 March: spring break Thursday, 16 March: spring break Tuesday, 21 March: Nathaniel Hawthorne, introduction + “The Minister’s Black Veil.” Reader: Bill Wolfe Thursday, 23 March: Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown.” Reader: Amanda Hanne Tuesday, 28 March: Herman Melville, introduction + begin Billy Budd (through section 17) Reader: Michael Tran Thursday, 30 March: Melville, Billy Budd (complete) Web-highlighter: Tallia Ortiz (midterms on Billy Budd) 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.” Reader: Susan Hooks Tuesday, 11 April: Hawthorne, from Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” + “Second Inaugural Address.” Research Project due. Reader: Susanne Brooks 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" Web-highlighter: Elena Trevino Thursday, 20 April: Dickinson "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 "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] Reader: Miriam Rodriguez Thursday, 27 April: Dickinson "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, 2 May, 10:00am-12:50pm: final exam |