|
This
is a schedule of the work we will discuss in class on each day.
Most page numbers are for The Norton Anthology of American Literature
1865-1914 (Volume C). Page numbers prefaced by "Crane"
are for The Red Badge of Courage, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,
and Other Selected Writings; those prefaced by "Wharton"
are for New Riverside Edition of Ethan Frome and Summer.
|
Tuesday,
April 1
|
- Introduction
to class
|
|
Thursday,
April 3
|
"The
Literature of an Expanding Nation" (handout)
Whitman: Preface to Leaves of Grass (21-35), "Song
of Myself, 1855" (37-79) |
|
Tuesday,
April 8
|
- Dickinson:
49, 67, 185, 214, 216, 241, 280, 315, 328, 441, 505, 664,
712, 754, 1129, 1545, 1732 (these are poem numbers, not
page numbers)
|
|
Thursday,
April 10
|
- Twain:
"How to Tell a Story" (408-11), "Fenimore
Cooper's Literary Offenses" (412-20), "The Notorious
Jumping Frog of Calvareas County" (215-19), The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 1-4 (219-30)
Study
Question One due
|
|
Tuesday,
April 15
|
- Twain:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 5-20
(230-311)
|
|
Thursday,
April 17
|
- Twain:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 21-33
(311-70)
|
|
Tuesday,
April 22
|
Twain:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 34-The Last
(370-407)
Harris:
"The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" (592), "Mr. Rabbit
Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox" (593)
Chesnutt: "The Wife of His Youth" (789-97) |
|
Thursday,
April 24
|
- James:
"The Art of Fiction" (553-67), Daisy Miller:
A Study (468-506)
Study
Question Two due
|
|
Tuesday,
April 29
|
- Woolson:
"Miss Grief" (437-50)
Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" & "Why
I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" (832-45)
Freeman: "A New England Nun" & "The Revolt
of 'Mother'" (725-43)
|
|
Thursday,
May 1
|
Chopin:
The Awakening Chapters 1-21 (633-83)
|
|
Tuesday,
May 6
|
Chopin:
The Awakening Chapters 22-39 (683-723)
|
|
Thursday,
May 8
|
No
Class Meeting: We're off to the Lit Fest!
|
|
Tuesday,
May 13
|
- Washington:
selections from Up From Slavery (746-79)
Dunbar:
"Frederick Douglass," "We Wear the Mask,"
"Sympathy" (handouts)
DuBois: selections from The Souls of Black Folk (876-901)
Study
Question Three due
|
|
Thursday,
May 15
|
- Cochise:
[I am alone] (460-2)
Charlot: [He has filled graves with our bones] (462-5)
Eastman: From the Deep Woods to Civilization excerpts
(797-810)
Zitkala Sa: "Impressions from an Indian Childhood,"
"The School Days of an Indian Girl," and "An
Indian Teacher among Indians" (1006-35)
|
|
Sunday,
May 18
|
| 6
-10 p.m.: view The Birth of a Nation (extra class to
make up for canceling on Thursday, May 8) |
|
Tuesday,
May 20
|
- We'll
view The Immigrant in class
Cahan: "A Sweat-Shop Romance" (820-30)
Frus & Corkin: "The Historical and Cultural Contexts
of Stephen Crane" (9-29)
Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Chapters 1-5
(Crane 76-91)
|
|
Thursday,
May 22
|
- Crane:
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Chapters 6-end (Crane
91-130)
Roosevelt: "How Not to Help Our Poorer Brothers"
(Crane 167-70)
Study Question Four due
|
|
Tuesday,
May 27
|
- Class
will meet in basement "Aqua Lounge" of Evolution
on Court Street, between Union & Washington Streets
Frus & Corkin: "The Civil War Remembered"
(Crane 287-300)
Crane: Red Badge of Courage Chapters 1-12 (Crane
173-227)
|
|
Thursday,
May 29
|
- Crane:
Red Badge of Courage Chapters 13-24 (Crane 227-71)
|
|
Tuesday,
June 3
|
- Wharton:
Ethan Frome (Wharton 13-87)
Study
Question Five due
|
|
Thursday,
June 5
|
- Wharton:
Summer (Wharton 91-210)
|
|
Tuesday,
June 10
|
- 7pm:
All final projects are due in Shannon's office or mailbox.
|
|