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Literature
5535: American Romanticism
University of Houston-Clear Lake Class
Meeting: Mondays 4:00-6:50, Bayou 2235
Instructor: Craig White
Office/phone/hrs:
Bayou 2529-8; 281 283-3380; M 1-3pm, extra hrs TBA, &
by apptmt. email:
whitec@uhcl.edu Course webpage: http://coursesite.uhcl.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/5535 Assignments and grades Grades and Assignments: Percentages are only approximate, indicating relative weight in considering final grades, which are not computed mathematically but decided subjectively by comparing the quality of a student's thought and writing with that of classmates and wider academic standards. ·
Presentations, responses,
& webpage postings (10%) ·
take-home midterm (20%; due
via email within 72 hours of 2
October) ·
research proposal (ungraded; due
within 72 hours of 9 October) ·
research project (40%; due
within 72 hours of 13 November) ·
final exam (30%;
in-class or email 4 December) Issues
such as attendance, preparation, and quality of class participation may
influence grades beyond percentages indicated. LITR 5535 2006 Schedule of readings: This schedule is subject to change. N = Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 6th edition (2003) Monday 21 August: Introduction; students indicate presentation preferences. Monday 28 August: Columbus, N 25-29; Selections from Genesis (handout); John Smith, N 42-53. Mary Rowlandson, N 135-152. Thomas Jefferson, N 334-342. selection reader / discussion leader: Devon Kitch poetry: Anne Bradstreet, “To my Dear and Loving Husband,” N 125. poetry reader / discussion leader: Diane Palmer Monday 4 September: Labor Day Holiday—no class meeting Monday 11 September: Jonathan Edwards, N 182-194, 207-219; Susanna Rowson, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (handout); Washington Irving, N 446-460 ("Rip Van Winkle"), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (handout). selection reader / discussion leader: Andrew Coleman (Edwards) Monday 18 September: James Fenimore Cooper, N 460-469. Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, through ch. 11 (through p. 110 Penguin edition); Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), N 1432-1440 (“Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offences”); handout: D. H. Lawrence on Cooper's Leatherstocking novels. selection reader / discussion leader: Chris Wissel poetry: Cathy Song, "Heaven," N 2847 poetry reader / discussion leader: Nguyen Le web highlight (midterms): Leigh Ann Moore Monday 25 September: “The Iroquois Creation Story,” N 17-21; “The Cherokee Memorials,” N 571-581; William Apess, N 476-482. Complete The Last of the Mohicans. selection reader / discussion leader: Gordon Lewis (“Iroquois Creation Story”) poetry: Joy Harjo, "Call It Fear," N 2834-5 poetry reader / discussion leader: Dee Ann Bongiovanni Monday 2 October: Take-home midterm exam due within 72 hours of class meeting. Edgar Allan Poe, N 694-696, 704-727 (“Ligeia” & “Fall of the House of Usher”); William Faulkner, “N 2160-66. selection reader / discussion leader: Bonnie Napoli poetry: Poe, "Anabelle Lee," N 2671 poetry reader / discussion leader: Corey Porter Monday 9 October: Nathaniel Hawthorne, N 579-584, 610-635 (“Young Goodman Brown,” “May-Pole of Merry Mount,” & “Minister’s Black Veil”) selection reader / discussion leader: Angela Douglas poetry: Sylvia Plath, "Blackberrying," N 2783 poetry reader / discussion leader: Jo Lynn Sallee Monday 16 October: Research Proposal Due (within 72 hours of class). Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, N 812-834. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life . . . , N 939-973. selection reader / discussion leader: Tish Wallace poetry: Robert Hayden, "Those Winter Sundays," N 2669 poetry
reader / discussion leader:
Anuruddha Ellakkala Monday 23 October: Abraham Lincoln, N 757-760. Harriet Beecher Stowe, selections from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, N 771-806. Thoreau, N 837-853 (“Resistance to Civil Government”). selection reader / discussion leader: Leigh Ann Moore poetry: Theodore Roethke, "I Knew a Woman," N 2641 poetry reader / discussion leader: Aaron Morris Monday 30 October: Ralph Waldo Emerson, N 482-497, 514-519, 527-533, 539-544 (introduction & opening sections of Nature, The American Scholar, Divinity School Address, & Self-Reliance). (Each student should try to finish at least one of these essays.) Margaret Fuller, N 760-771. selection reader / discussion leader: Bill Wolfe poetry: Denise Levertov, "The Jacob's Ladder," N 2708 poetry reader / discussion leader: Cindy L. Goodson Monday 6 November: Walt Whitman, N 985-989, 1061-1066 (“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”), 1074-1080 (“When Lilacs . . . “); “There Was a Child Went Forth“ (handout). Carl Sandburg, N 1916-1919. Allen Ginsberg, N 2730-2740. Thomas Wolfe, “The Lost Boy” (handout). selection reader / discussion leader: Kristen Bird poetry: Whitman, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” N 1070 poetry
reader / discussion leader: Marion
Carpenter Monday 13 November: Henry James, N 1498-1539 (Daisy Miller: A Study) selection reader / discussion leader: Sharon Lockett poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, “The Fish,” N 2650 poetry reader / discussion leader: Ashley Christine Huff web highlight (final exams or research projects): Gordon Lewis Monday
20 November: Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), N
1237-1244 (“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”). Sarah Orne
Jewett, N 1586-1594. Charles W.
Chesnutt, N 1630-1639 (“The
Goophered Grapevine”). Wovoka, N
1789-92. Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa), N
1792-1807. Black Elk & John G. Neihardt, N
1823-1836. Research Project due (within
72 hours of class). selection reader / discussion leader: poetry: Simon J. Ortiz, “Earth and Rain, the Plants & Sun,” N 2814-2815 poetry reader / discussion leader: George Otis web highlight (final exams): Kristen Bird Monday 27 November: Claude McKay, N 2082-2086. Zora Neal Hurston, N 2096-2109. Jean Toomer, N 2120-2126. Langston Hughes N 2225-2232. Countee Cullen, N 2245-2249; F. Scott Fitzgerald, N 2126-2143 (“Winter Dreams”). selection reader / discussion leader: Brouke M. Rose-Carpenter poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, "kitchenette building," N 2698 poetry reader / discussion leader: Crystal Reppert Monday 4 December: Final exam. Students may take final exam in-class or by email. |