LITR 5535: American
Romanticism
Index to Student Reading Presentation Summaries, summer 2002
Click on the titles below to review summaries of presentations.
Thursday,
6 June: Thomas Jefferson, N
322-342. Susanna Rowson, from Charlotte: A
Tale of Truth N 370-407.
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" N
426-440 Handout: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." James Fenimore Cooper,
N 440-449.
selection reader: Kayla Logan
Monday,
10 June: Edgar Allan
Poe, N 697-700, “Ligeia” &
“Fall of the House of Usher” 708-731. “Annabel Lee,” 707-08.
selection reader: Beth Hammett
Tuesday,
11 June: Nathaniel
Hawthorne, N 584-587. “May-Pole of
Merry Mount” & “Minister’s Black Veil”, 623-39.
selection reader: Jennifer Thurik
Tuesday, 18 June:
Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government”
N 852-868. Harriet Beecher Stowe, selections from Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, N 791-821
selection reader: Krisann Muskievicz
Thursday,
20 June: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, N
826-849. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of
the Life . . . , N 967-1001.
selection reader: Cynthia Garza
Tuesday,
25 June: Rebecca Harding
Davis, "Life in the Iron Mills" N
1211-1239
selection reader: Dendy Farrar