ENLT 224.01 & .02 AMERICAN LITERATURES TO 1865
SEMESTER SCHEDULE, FALL 2006 T/Th
How to read this schedule: 1) Be sure to read through the historical and literary introductions for each section and each writer so you can blend that info into your discussion questions and essay exams. Note that sometimes you will need to go back to the beginning of a volume or a section to read all the appropriate intro material. Any item below in “quotation marks” is a title of either an introductory passage or a primary text, but you should double-check the Table of Contents and the text itself for intro material on each reading. 2) Most of the Heath Anthology’s selections for particular authors are excerpts. Whenever you are wondering which passages to read for class, read them all. The daily readings range from about twenty to about fifty pages. 3) For specific page numbers, go to the Table of Contents or the Index, making sure you are in the appropriate Volume A or B of the Heath Anthology.
Prologue to Semester: Themes, Novel, Anthology Review
8/29Introductions
8/31Frontier Thesis; Ridge, The Adventures of Joaquin Murieta.
9/5Nexus paradigm; Ridge cont.
9/7Ridge cont.
UNIT 1-- ONGOING NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITIONS/16C & 17C COLONIAL IDEOLOGIES
9/12Varieties of Native American Traditions: Heath Volume A. “Colonial Period: to 1700,” incl. “Native American Culture and Traditions; “Native American Oral Literatures”; “Native American Oral Narrative”; (Lakota) “Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe”; (Seneca) “The Origin of Stories”; (Iroquois) “Confederacy of the Five Nations.”DQ1
9/14Varieties of Native American Traditions: “Native American Oral Poetry”; (Zuni) “Sayatasha’s Night Chant”; “Aztec Poetry”; “Inuit”;“Selection of Poems.” DQ2
9/19Spanish Explorers, Captives, Conquerors: “Colonial Period: to 1700,” incl. “Europeans Arrive,” “New World Cultures,” “New World Literatures”; “New Spain”; (Yuchi) “Creation of the Whites”; Columbus: “Journal of the First Voyage,” “Narrative of the Third Voyage”; Cabeza de Vaca: “from Relation” (all) DQ3. Optional Response Paper Assignment handed out (for written feedback on Joaquin Murieta, Native American readings, and early Spanish writings).
9/21Spanish Colonizers and Native Americans: + “New France”; Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe; Sor Juana poems; Otermin “Letter on Pueblo Revolt” 183-90; (Hopi) “Coming of the Spanish and Pueblo Revolt.” Cluster: America in the European Imagination. DQ4
9/26Optional Response Paper Due. Chesapeake: “Chesapeake”; Smith: “General Historie,”“Description of New England,” “Advertisements”; Frethorne: “Letters”; Nathaniel Bacon “Manifesto”; James Revel poem. Cluster: Cultural Encounters – A Critical Survey. DQ5
9/28New England: “New England”; ThomasMorton : “New English Canaan” (all);Winthrop: “Modell of Christian Charity”; Cotton Mather (all). DQ1
10/3Puritan Colonizers and Native Americans: Bradford: “Of PlymouthPlantation”; Rowlandson: “Narrative of Captivity”; John Williams: “The Redeemed Captive”; RogerWilliams: “Key into the Language of America,” “Testimony.” DQ2. 1st Unit Exam handed out.
10/5Puritan Poetry: (17C Poetry Intro 544); Taylor : “God’s Determinations,” “Souls Groan,” “Christ’s Reply,” “Joy of Church,” “Occasional Poems”;Bradstreet: “Prologue,” “Author to Her Book,” “Flesh & Spirit,” “Before the Birth,” “To My Dear Husband,” “Letter to Her Husband,” “In Memory of My Grandchild”; Tillam “Uppon the first sight”; Mary French “Captive Damsel.” DQ3
UNIT 2-- MANY VOICES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (+)
10/101st Unit Exam DUE. Varieties of Eighteenth-Century Religious Experience, Puritan and Quaker: “Eighteenth Century” intro sections pp. 565-584, incl. “Settlement and Religion”; Edwards: “Personal Narrative,” “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”; Woolman: “Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes.” DQ4
10/12Who Are Americans? Revolutionary Ideals and Their Contradictions: “Voices of Revolution and Nationalism”; Crevecoeur: “An American Farmer” Letter #3, Letter #9; Sarah W. A. Morton (all); Judith Sargent Murray: (all);Poems Published Anonymously (all); Anonymous: “Rights of Woman”; Patriot & Loyalist Songs: “Patriot Voices” (8 songs); “Loyalist Voices (6 songs). Cluster: On Nature and Nature’s God. DQ5
10/17Jefferson: “Declaration of Independence,” “Notes on the State of Virginia”; Paine: “Common Sense”;plus (Intro to “A Sheaf of 18C Anglo-American Poetry”); Freneau: “Sir Toby,” “Indian Burying Ground,” “Political Degeneracy”;(Seneca)Handsome Lake 780: “How America Was Discovered.” DQ1
10/19Franklin: “Way to Wealth,” “Edict of the King of Prussia,” “Ephemera,” “Remarks Concerning the Savages,” “On the Slave Trade,” “Autobiography”; John Adams: “Autobiography”; Toussaint L’Ouverture: “Proclamations and Letters.” Cluster: On the Discourse of Liberty. DQ2
10/242ND Unit Exam handed out. Who Are Americans? African American Voices: “Contested Visions, American Voices”; Equiano: “Interesting Narrative”; Lemuel Haynes: (all); Joel Barlow: “Prospect of Peace,” “Hasty Pudding.” DQ3
10/26Wheatley(all);Hammon: “To Phillis Wheatly”; Prince Hall: “Charge to African Lodge.” DQ4
UNIT 3-- MANY VOICES OF THE ANTEBELLUM NINETEENTH CENTURY
10/312nd Unit Exam DUE. Who Are Americans? Native American Voices. Heath Volume B. “Early 19th Century” intro sections pp1389-1420; “Native America”;Schoolcraft: “Mishosha,” “Forsaken Brother”; John Ross Letters;Apess: “Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”; Seattle: “Speech”; Ridge: (all). DQ5
11/2Native American & Chicano Intersections: “Spanish America”; “Tales from the Hispanic Southwest”: “Los tres hermanos,” “El Obispo,” “El indito”; “La Llorona, Malinche, and Guadalupe” 1457-59. DQ1
11/7Election Day Holiday
11/9Early Nineteenth Century—Versions of Transcendentalism: “Cultures of New England”;Emerson: Essays “Self-Reliance,” “Experience”; Poems “Concord Hymn,” “Snow-Storm” 1604-5, “Merlin,” “Brahma,” “Days”; Sigourney poems. DQ2 [Friday, 11/10 Veterans Day Holiday]
11/14Versions of Transcendentalism: Thoreau: “Resistance to Civil Government,” “from Walden,” “Plea for John Brown,” “Walking”; Song: “John Brown’s Body.” DQ3
11/16Bring research focus & meet in Mansfield2nd Floor Student Learning Ctr. with Humanities Librarian Sue Samson.
11/21WORKING THESIS & Bibliography for revised research essay DUE. (Paper due 12/12.) Emerson’s Poets? “The Emergence of American Poetic Voices”2864+; Emerson: Essay “The Poet”; Whitman: “Sleepers,” “In Paths Untrodden,” “Out of the Cradle,” “Learn’d Astronomer,” “When Lilacs Last.” Cluster: Humor of the Old Southwest. DQ4
11/23Thanksgiving Vacation (begins Wednesday 11/22).
11/28Dickinson 2969-74: Poems (numbered via “J” edition; not page numbers:) #130,258, 288, 308, 341, 435, 465, 520, 569, 632, 712, 754, 1129, 1755;+ selected letters;Higginson: “Letter on Emily Dickinson.”DQ5
11/30Women’s Rights: “Debate over Women’s ‘Sphere’” 1405+; “Literature and the ‘Woman Question’”; Sarah Grimke: “Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, #VIII”; Angelina Grimke: “Human Rights Not Founded on Sex, #12”; Stanton: “Declaration of Sentiments”; Fern: “Hints to Young Wives,” “Soliloquy of a Housemaid,” “Working-Girls of NY”; Sojourner Truth: “Speech,” “Address.”DQ1.
12/5Varieties of Narrative and Representations of Women: “Development of Narrative”; Fuller: “Woman in the 19th Century,” “American Literature,”; Hawthorne: “The Birthmark”; “Rappaccini’s Daughter.” Poe: “Ligeia.” DQ2. 3rd Unit Exam handed out.
12/7Slavery & Abolition through the Eyes of Men & Women: “Debates over Racism & Slavery” 1400+; “Race, Slavery, and the Invention of the ‘South’”; Douglass: “Narrative of the Life,” “What to the Slave is the 4th of July”;previous DQ3;Harriet Jacobs: “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”; Lydia Maria Child: “Appeal In Favor of . . . Africans”;previous DQ4; “Songs & Ballads” 2866: Slave Songs: “Lay Dis Body Down,” “Steal Away,” “There’s a Meeting,” “Many Thousand Go,” “Go Down Moses,” “Didn’t My Lord.” Songs of White Communities: “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Shenandoah.” Previous DQ5
Finals Week (no class)
12/12--REVISED ESSAY w/ library research DUE in my mailbox in LA133.
12/14--3rd Unit Exam DUE in my mailbox in LA133.