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LITERATURE 4232: American Renaissance, UHCL Fall 2004 presentation schedule 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: T 1-3, Th 5-7 & by appointment Course
webpage address: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/4232 Meeting and reading schedule: Fall
Semester 2004 (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.) Tuesday, 24 August: Introduction; concept of "The American Renaissance" 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); Reader: Leslie Chambers 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 Web-highlighter: Jennifer Horner 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 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 |