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All reading assignments are from: Baym, Nina, et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 5th ed. New York: Norton, 1999.





CLASS #READINGSASSIGNMENTS
1Introduction
Origins
2
  • William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation. (pages: 88-106)
  • Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. (pages: 147-64)
3
  • Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative, A Devine and Supernatural Light and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (pages: 174-86, 200-211)
  • Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America and The Autobiography. (pages: 211-46, 273-85)
4
  • Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. (pages: 342-53)
  • Phyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America; To Mæcenas; To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth; To the University of Cambridge, in New England; On teh Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770; Thoughts on the Works of Providence; To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works; and To His Excellency General Washington. (pages: 358-70)
  • Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. (pages: 426-40)
5Essay One (5 pages)
Declarations of Independence
6
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and The American Scholar. (pages: 493-525)
7
  • Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Ch. 1, 2, and 4. (pages: 868-920)
Revision One (5 pages)
8
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux. (pages: 584-7, 630-70)
9
  • Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Ch. I, VI, VII, IX, and X. (pages: 967-1000)
10
  • Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno. (pages: 1103-34)
11Essay Two (5 pages)
12
  • Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit. MAN versus MEN. WOMAN versus WOMEN. and Unfinished Sketch of Youth ("Autobiographical Romance"). (pages: 764-75)
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Ch. VII, IX, and XXXIV. (pages: 791-821)
13
  • Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself. (pages: 1001-5, 1057-1100)
14
  • Emily Dickinson, (pages: 1190-1211)
    ("I never lost as much but twice")
    ("Success is counted sweetest")
    ("These are the days when Birds come back--,--")
    (" 'Faith' is a fine invention")
    ("I taste a liquor never brewed--")
    ("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--")
    ("I like a look of Agony")
    ("Wild Nights--Wild Nights!")
    ("There's a certain Slant of light")
    ("A Clock stopped--")
    ("The Soul selects her own Society--")
    ("A Bird came down the Walk--")
    ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--")
    ("I dreaded that first Robin, so")
    ("Much Madness is divinest Sense--")
    ("This is my letter to the World")
    ("This was a Poet--It is That")
    ("I died for Beauty--but was scarce")
    ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--")
    ("This World is not Conclusion")
    ("I would not paint--a picture--")
    ("It Was not Death, for I stood up")
    ("The Brain--is wider than the Sky--")
    ("I cannot live with You--")
    ("Pain--has an Element of Blank--")
    ("Because I could not stop for Death--")
    ("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
    ("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")
    ("The Bustle in a House")
    ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--")
    ("A Route of Evanescence")
    ("Apparently with no surprise")
    ("My life closed twice before its close")
    Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Revision Two (5 pages)
Realism and Satire
15
  • Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in th Iron-Mills. (pages: 1211-39)
16
  • Samuel Clemens, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County. (pages: 1258-61, 1265-1314)
17
  • Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1314-66)
18
  • Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1366-1415)
19
  • Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1416-1453)
20Essay Three (5 pages)
21
  • Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron. (pages: 1594-1602)
  • Kate Chopin, At the 'Cadian Ball, The Storm, and Désirée's Baby. (pages: 1603-20)
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper. (pages: 1656-69)
  • Edith Wharton, The Other Two. (pages: 1669-84)
Vision and Revision
22
  • Claude McKay, "Africa," "The Harlem Dancer," "The Lynching," "Harlem Shadows," America," and "If We Must Die." (pages: 2069-73)
  • Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me and The Guilded Six-Bits. (pages: 2082-95)
  • Jean Toomer, Cane. (pages: 2118-24)
  • Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "I, Too," "Mulatto," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Silhouette," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Note on Commercial Theatre," and "Democracy." (pages: 2224-31)
  • Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage." (pages: 2242-46)
  • Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man. (pages: 2247-56)
23
  • Toni Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 4-87)
Revision Three (5 pages)
24
  • Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 89-162)
25
  • Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 165-229)
26ConclusionEssay Four (5 pages)


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 




 
 


 



 








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