American Literature I (English 318)

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 1. Orientation
2. William Bradford: Of Plymouth Plantation, Chapters IX, X, and XXVIII
2. Ann Bradstreet: "The Author to Her Book"; "Before the Birth..."
4. Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear... Husband"; "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild";
"Upon the Burning of Our House"; "As a Weary Pilgrim"
5. Edward Taylor: "The Joy of Church Fellowship"; "The Reflexion"; "Meditation 8"; "Meditation 39"; "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" Mandatory Attendance
6. Jonathan Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
7. Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard ; The Autobiography (from Part Two)
8. Thomas Jefferson: "Letter to John Adams"
9. Thomas Paine: "The Age of Reason"
10. Philip Freneau: "To Sir Toby"; "On the Universality... of Nature"
11. Washington Irving: "Rip Van Winkle" Mandatory Attendance
12. James Fenimore Cooper: The Deerslayer
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature" Mandatory Attendance
14. "Nature," cont.
15. "The American Scholar"
16. "The Divinity School Address"
17. "Experience"
18. "Fate"
19. Henry David Thoreau: Walden, "Economy" Mandatory Attendance
20. "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" 
21. "Higher Laws"
22. "Spring"
23. "Conclusion"
24. Review for Mid-Term
25. Mid-Term Exam
26. Introduction to Whitman
27. Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself" Mandatory Attendance
28. "Song of Myself" cont. Mandatory Attendance
29. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
30. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
31. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
32. "Passage to India"
33. William Cullen Bryant: "Thanatopsis"; "To a Waterfowl"; "To the Fringed Gentian"
34. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"; "My Lost Youth"
35. John Greenleaf Whittier: "Snow-Bound"
36. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Chambered Nautilus"
37. Edgar Allan Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Mandatory Attendance
38. Poe: "Ligeia"
39. Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Tell Tale Heart"
40. Nathaniel Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown" Mandatory Attendance
41. Hawthorne: "The Birth Mark"
42. Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"
43. Melville: "Bartleby the Scrivener" Mandatory Attendance
44. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapters I and XL Frederick Douglass, "The Life and Times" Chapters 15 and 17

FINAL EXAMINATION: Time to be announced