English 241

American Literature

to 1860

Spring 2003

Early American Literature Teaching Group

Rosemarie Dombrowski, MA, Ph.D. cand.
Kate Frost, Ph.D. cand.
Prof. Joe Lockard

 

Sections

Line #s Room Days/Times

93699 Nursing 101 MW/8:40-9:30 (Lockard)
LL107 F/8:40-9:30 (Frost)

48298 Nursing 101 MW/8:40-9:30 (Lockard)
LL 105 F/8:40-9:30 (Dombrowski)

Nursing 101 MW/8:40-9:30 (Lockard)
LL 47 IT & Performance Section

IT & Performance Lab students must be registered in one of the two regular sections.


Course Description

Early American literature emerged from a potpourri of competing voices speaking many languages. It borrowed and stole stories, invented new genres, tried politeness and crudeness alternately, and both copied and rejected its native, European and African precedents. This is a literature of colonialism, of syncretic self-invention, and of insistent democracy.


This course will survey major features and ideologies of ‘American literature’ from its seventeenth-century origins until the Civil War era, questioning its origins and canon. We shall be especially attentive to the historical contexts of American literature, to its roots in radical social alienations, and to the diversity of its writers and readers. We will read, introduce and analyze a wide range of influential authors, works, genres, movements, ideologies and cultural narratives that constitute the body known as ‘early American literature.’ The genres covered will include exploration narratives, promotional literature, captivity and slavery narratives, travel narratives, religious literature, poetry, prose fiction, history, oratories, autobiographies, and political writing.


As a hybrid course that infuses information technology, the course employs online technologies to enhance in-class discussion and generate its own primary teaching materials. Online work will be a continuous feature of this class. Literature and its study are ongoing discussions that do not stop at the classroom door. Electronic coursework is one means of infusing such discussion into everyday life.


Texts

Heath Anthology of American Literature, Paul Lauter, ed., vol. 1, 4th edition (Houghton Mifflin)
The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker (Verso, 2001)

Course Requirements


· Online discussion participation (twice weekly minimum) [20 percent]
· Two four-page papers [10 percent each]
· Ten brief in-class text quizzes [20 percent]
· Midterm exam [15 percent]
· Final exam [25 percent]

Regular attendance is required for a passing grade. Attendance sign-in will be taken at all lecture and discussion sections. Unscheduled and unannounced brief text quizzes will be given at either the beginning or finish of Monday or Wednesday lectures. Those not present will lose course credit for the quiz (excepting certified medical absence) and there will be no make-up.

Online Coursework Participation

This course employs Web Board for hosting online discussion. Instructions for site entry and use will be circulated at the first course meeting. Site entry will remain open until February 5, after which the site will be closed to outside participants for the duration of the course. Online participation will require a minimum of two 200-word posts weekly, once to a response question posted site-wide on Wednesday mornings and once to a readings-related topic of your own choice. Further responses to postings by section members are invited and will receive consideration by course instructors for extra credit. Online postings should be written with full benefit from correct spelling, grammar, and a complete assembly of writing skills. Course instructors will evaluate online coursework both of quality and quantity. If there are any difficulties in access, contact one of the course instructors immediately concerning the problem.

IT & Performance Lab

Spoken-word performance represents the origins of literature and is inseparable from its understanding – and pure enjoyment. This course will initiate experimental use of a Literature Jukebox to create an online archive of spoken-word performances, text discussions, and short lectures. The IT & Performance lab, to be conducted by Dr. Lockard, will not write papers but rather will contribute to fellow students by online and in-class performance. This lab is appropriate for both technically-oriented students with significant computer competencies and for those interested in acting or voice performance. All lab students will learn to record and web-post their own oral performance work. A questionnaire and sign-up sheet will be distributed during the first class.

Attendance

Attendance is required throughout the course. More than two section absences excused or unexcused will result in the lowering of a student’s final course grade by one letter.

Reading

A complete knowledge of the day’s assigned reading is required. This course is predicated on give-and-take discussion, and without a reading knowledge of the text it is difficult or impossible to participate meaningfully in class discussions. This is more than a standard syllabus clause; it is a matter of respect towards the class discussion, and in a larger sense, respect towards the communities whose literatures we are reading.

Office Hours

Students will be required to attend a minimum of two 15-minute office hours sessions during the semester. The purpose of these sessions is to discuss coursework, paper assignments, and any questions you might have. Further, large universities need personalization. Although this is a large course, no one will disappear into anonymity.


Office hours sign-up lists will be passed around section meetings. Instructors will establish their own office hours. If instructors must cancel an office appointment, we will try to notify you by e-mail. To cancel a scheduled appointment, send your instructor an e-mail note. It is poor form to skip an appointment without prior notice.


We will keep announced open office hours together with scheduled hours. Please feel encouraged to visit without an appointment during these hours, to discuss coursework or just to chat.

Writing

Your writing is a crucial element of your success in this course. We will be available in office hours to discuss paper ideas, and to read and comment on paper drafts. For in-depth editorial work on your writing, visit the Writing Center at LL340 or call them for a tutorial appointment at (480) 965-4272.

Grades

Grades are an archaic form of evaluation, and better forms of evaluation can be employed. However, your instructors appreciate having salaries and this course gives honest grades using clear criteria. Consult the Grading Criteria handout distributed in the first class for an understanding of grading standards in English department courses. You have the right to query or challenge any grade given during this course, without concern for making the request. Upon receiving a grade query, we will either raise or confirm the grade.Note that the quiz component can and will dramatically affect your course grade if you perform poorly.


Accommodations


If you have a learning variation that makes in-class assignments, including in-class speaking and/or writing, difficult for you, please let us know and we will arrange another method of evaluation. If certain instructional styles work better for you than others, please let us know: e.g., if you need handouts in large print, if certain visual formats are more difficult for you to understand than others, if all printed material needs to be in black and white instead of colors, etc. If you need assistance taking notes, please tell Dr. Lockard and he will arrange an accommodation. Further, if you find accommodations necessary because of work or childcare issues, let us know during office hours or by e-mail. Such accommodation requests should be made at the beginning of the semester. If childcare arrangement lapses would prevent you from attending class, please bring your child to class and we shall welcome her/him.

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Visual Presentations

The following visual presentations (Powerpoint) are now available online for review. An HTML version will appear after clicking on the presentation title.

New Spain

Encounter Narratives

Early Puritan Writing (John Winthrop; Anne Hutchinson and Antinomianism; Thomas Shepard)

Later Puritan Writing (Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, Cotton Mather)

Jonathan Edwards and John Woolman

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine

Toussaint L'Ouverture and Olaudah Equiano

Thomas Jefferson and the Federalists

Samson Occom, Prince Hall, and Judith Sargent Murray

Philip Freneau, Phillis Wheatley, and Hannah Foster

Indians, Whites and Narrative Mirrors [Frost]

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne, Democracy and Mobs

Edgar Allan Poe's Ghost Visions

Poet Icons: Whittier and Longfellow

Emerson: 'Nature' and 'American Scholar'

Women Creating Literature: Antebellum Feminism

Transatlantic Abolitionism and Frederick Douglass

The Enduring Relevance of Frederick Douglass and Slave Narratives

Herman Melville, the Commons, and Hydrarchy

Return to the Hydrarchy: Melville's 'Billy Budd'

'Walt Whitman: 'I Am the Poet of Equality'

Walt Whitman: Terry Moore in 'At Last, An American Bard' [requires RealPlayer video]

Emily Dickinson's Voices [Rosemarie Dombrowski]

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Class Handouts

Transatlantic Timelines (1492-1699)

Transatlantic Timeline (1700-1799)

Transatlantic Timeline (1800-1860)

Historical Glossary

Paper 1

Paper 2

Midterm Examination

Midterm Evaluation

Midterm Evaluation Report [Lockard]

Midterm Examination Comments [Dombrowski, Frost]

IT & Performance Section Consent Form

Final Examination Instructions

Final Examination Model Questions

Final Examination Text Coverage

Final Examination Passage Identification - Answers

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Class Discussion

See: http://english.asu.edu:8080/~lockard

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 2

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 3

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 4

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 5

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 6

Online Discussion Assignment (1) - Week 8

Online Discussion Assignment (2) - Week 8

Online Discussion Assignment (3) - Week 8

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 9

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 10

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 11

Online Discussion Assignment - Week 12

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Section Discussion Review Notes

Section 1 [Frost]

Section 2 [Dombrowski]

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Early American Teaching Group Webpages

Rosemarie Dombrowski

Kate Frost

Joe Lockard

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Technical Information

The multimedia elements of this site can be viewed on updated Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or a compatible Mac OS 10.2 system. The Jukebox sound files will require broadband for effective access. If you are a course student and your computer or connectivity do not enable you to view course online course materials, bring a CD to class and you will receive in return a full copy of this website.

Viewing the Whitman performance by ASU graduate student Terry Moore will require installation of RealPlayer [available via a link at the English Department video site] and a broadband connection.

 

British cartoon depicting Tom Paine as the 'staymaker of the revolution'.

Detailed Schedule

· This schedule is subject to adjustments and alterations, which will be announced both in class and online.
· Readings are due for online discussion and at the class meeting following the assignment date specified.
· Bold numbers in square brackets refer to class session number.

[For archiving, some selections have been deleted from the Literature Jukebox presentations that appear below.]


Wednesday, January 22 [1]

Course introduction
Assignment:
Discovering the Discovered -- Read Native American Oral Narrative (HA 21-64); Christopher Columbus, selections from Journal of the First Voyage and Narrative of the Third Voyage (HA 107-119).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, January 24 [2]

Discussion sections
Assignment:
Europe, Arizona and New Mexico – Read Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (HA 119-130); Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, selections from The History of New Mexico (HA 146-164); Don Antonio de Otermín, ‘Letter on the Pueblo Revolt’ (HA 182-190); Hopi, ‘The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt’ (HA 190-194); Don Diego de Vargas, from Letter on the Reconquest of New Mexico, 1692 (HA 194-200).

Monday, January 27 [3]

Assignment: French and English Encounter and Settlement Narratives – Read Samuel de Champlain, from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain (HA 205-211); from The Jesuit Relations, ‘The Relation of 1647’ (HA 213-221); Thomas Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (HA 224-233); Edward Maria Wingfield, from A Discourse of Virginia (HA 234-242); John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (HA 242-256); Nathaniel Bacon, Nathaniel Bacon Esq’r his Manifesto Concerning the Present Troubles in Virginia (HA 260-267); James Revel, ‘The Poor, Unhappy Transported Felon’ (HA 267-275).

Wednesday, January 29 [4]

Assignment: Atlantic Slavery and Social Terror – Read Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (1-142, chaps. 1-4).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, January 31 [5]

Discussion sections
Assignment:
The Puritan Elders – Read John Winthrop, from A Modell of Christian Charity and The Journal of John Winthrop (HA 294-311); William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation (HA 311-334); Thomas Shepard, Autobiography (HA 355-382).

Monday, February 3 [6] [Unrestricted Withdrawal Deadline, February 4]

Assignment: Early New England Religious Culture – Read Anne Bradstreet (HA 382-401); Michael Wigglesworth, from The Diary of Michael Wigglesworth and ‘A Song of Emptiness’ (HA 402-410); Cotton Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World and Magnalia Christi Americana (HA 495-511).

Wednesday, February 5 [7] [Course website closes]

Assignment: Frontier Conflict and Captivity Narratives – Read Mary White Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (HA 425-456); Cotton Mather, Decennium Luctuosum: An History of Remarkable Occurences in the Long [Indian] War (HA 512-514); John Williams, from The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (HA 521-531).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.
Paper #1 – Literature of Contact paper -- assigned.

Friday, February 7 [8]

Discussion sections
Assignment:
Religious Awakenings: Two Versions – Read Jonathan Edwards, from A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, ‘Personal Narrative’, and ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ (HA 620-622, 626-650) [Literature Jukebox - 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,' Jonathan Edwards -- Jim Prendergast]; John Woolman, from The Journal of John Woolman and Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (HA 664-683).

Monday, February 10 [9]

Assignment: Transatlantic Conspiracies and the Scent of Revolution – Read Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (143-247, chaps. 5-8)

Wednesday, February 12 [10]

Assignment: Benjamin Franklin and ‘Seizing the Scepter of Tyrants’ – Read Franklin, ‘The Way of Wealth,’ ‘A Witch Trial at Mount Holly,’ ‘The Speech of Polly Baker,’ ‘Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,’ ‘On the Slave Trade,’ ‘Speech in the Convention,’ and from The Autobiography (HA 782-784, 785-796, 798-801, 804-867)
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, February 14 [11]

Assignment: Transatlantic Revolutions – Read Thomas Paine, from Common Sense [Literature Jukebox - 'Common Sense,' Thomas Paine - Jim Prendergast], The American Crisis, The Age of Reason (HA 934-954); Touissant L’Ouverture, ‘Proclamations and Letters’ (HA 1023-1029); Wendell Phillips, from Toussaint L’Ouverture (HA 1996 – 2007); Linebaugh and Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra (287-353, chap. 9 and Conclusion).
Discussion sections
Paper #1 due in section.

Monday, February 17 [12]

Assignment: Transatlantic Slavery – Read Olaudah Equiano, from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa (HA 1116-1149)

Wednesday, February 19 [13]

Assignment: Early American Republicanism – Read Thomas Jefferson, ‘A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled’; from Notes on the State of Virginia and ‘Letters’ (HA 975 – 1007); The Federalist no. 6, The Federalist no. 10, ‘An Anti-Federalist Paper’ (HA 1008 – 1022).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, February 21 [14]

Assignment: Early American Disenfranchisement – Read Samson Occum, A Short Narrative of My Life and A Sermon Preached by Samson Occum (HA 1078 – 1100); Prince Hall, ‘To the Honorable Council & House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts’ and ‘A Charge, Delivered to the African Lodge’ (HA 1106 – 1115); Judith Sargent Murray, ‘On the Equality of the Sexes’ (HA 1157 – 1163).
Discussion sections

Monday, February 24 [15]


Assignment:
Two Early American Poets – Read Phillip Freneau, ‘The Power of Fancy,’ ‘A Political Litany,’ ‘To Sir Toby,’ ‘The Wild Honey Suckle,’ from ‘The Country Printer,’ ‘On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature,’ ‘On Observing a Large Red-Streak Apple,’ ‘The Indian Burying Ground,’ ‘On the Causes of Political Degeneracy’ (HA 1175 – 1191); Phillis Wheatley, ‘To Mćcenas,’ ‘Letter to the Right Hon’ble The Earl of Dartmouth,’ ‘To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth,’ ‘Letter to the Rt. Hon’ble the Countess of Huntingdon,’ ‘On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield 1770,’ ‘On the Death of Dr. Samuel Marshall 1771,’ ‘On Being Brought from Africa to America,’ ‘A Farewell to America,’ ‘To the University of Cambridge, in New England,’ ‘To His Excellency General Washington,’ ‘Liberty and Peace,’ ‘Letter to Samson Occum’ (HA 1205 – 1221)

Wednesday, February 26 [16]

Assignment: Early American Drama – Read Royall Tyler, ‘The Contrast: A Comedy in Five Acts’ (HA 1257 – 1300)
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, February 28 [17]

Assignment: Eighteenth-Century Sex Scandals and Literary Bestsellers – Read Hannah Webster Foster, from The Coquette; or, the History of Eliza Wharton (HA 1306 – 1325)
Discussion sections

Monday, March 3 [18]

Assignment: Indians, Whites and Narrative Mirrors – Read William Apess, An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (HA 1397 – 1403); Elias Boudinot, ‘An Address to the Whites’ (HA 1409 – 1418); Seattle, ‘Speech of Chief Seattle’ (HA 1418 – 1422); George Copway, from The Life of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (HA 1422 – 1437); Washington Irving, from A History of New York [chap. 5] (HA 2071 – 2081); Lydia Sigourney, ‘The Indian’s Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers’ and ‘Indian Names’ (HA 1507 – 1509)

Wednesday, March 5 [19]

Assignment: Early American Regionalism and the Populist Voice – Read Washington Irving, ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ (HA 2081 – 2112); Davy Crockett, from The Crockett Almanacs (HA 2052 – 2055); Mike Fink, from The Crockett Almanacs and ‘The Death of Mike Fink’ (HA 2056 – 2060) [Literature Jukebox - 'Mike Fink's Brag' - Jenny Allen] [Literature Jukebox - 'Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer, How She Cooked Injuns' - Biliana Iacsin]; Augustus Longstreet, ‘The Horse Swap’ (HA 2061 – 2065).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, March 7 [20]

Assignment: Hawthorne and Civil Sin (1) – Read Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘My Kinsman, Major Molineux,’ ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ and ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ (HA 2170 – 2203); Herman Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (HA 2714 – 2726).
Discussion sections
Midterm course and IT evaluation
Take-home midterm examination

Monday, March 10 [21]

Assignment: Hawthorne and Civil Sin (2) -- Read Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘The Birthmark’ and ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ (HA 2204 – 2234)

Wednesday, March 12 [22]

Assignment: Hawthorne and Civil Sin (3) – Read Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (HA 2235 – 2372) and Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (HA 2372 – 2373) [note that this assignment is due on Monday, March 24]

Friday, March 14
Spring Break

Monday, March 24 [23]

Assignment: Online discussion of The Scarlet Letter

Wednesday, March 26 [24]

Assignment: Online discussion of The Scarlet Letter

Friday, March 28 [25]

Assignment: Poe’s Mysteries (1) -- Read Edgar Allan Poe (HA 2387 – 2389), ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ and ‘The Black Cat’ (HA 2400 – 2413, 2420 - 2429)

Monday, March 31 [26]

Assignment: Poe’s Mysteries (2) -- Read Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Purloined Letter’ and ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’ (HA 2430 – 2449)

Wednesday, April 2 [27]

Assignment: Poe’s Mysteries (3) – Read Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Raven,’ ‘The Philosophy of Composition,’ ‘The City in the Sea,’ ‘The Sleeper,’ [Literature Jukebox - 'The Sleeper' - Elizabeth Larntz]‘Ulalume,’ and ‘Annabel Lee’ (HA 2467 – 2470, 2449 – 2457, 2461 – 2464, 2470 – 2474)
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, April 4 [28]

Assignment: The New England School (1) – Read John Greenleaf Whittier, ‘The Hunters of Men,’ ‘The Farewell,’ Massachusetts to Virginia,’ ‘At Port Royal’ (HA 1613 – 1625); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘A Psalm of Life,’ ‘The Warning,’ ‘The Jewish Cemetery at Newport,’ and ‘Aftermath’ (HA 2822 – 2827).

Monday, April 7 [29]

Assignment: The New England School (2) – Read Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Nature’, ‘The American Scholar,’ and ‘The Poet’ (HA 1512 – 1555, 1572 – 1587).

Wednesday, April 9 [30]

Assignment: The New England School (3) – Read Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Self-Reliance’ (HA 1555 – 1572); Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government (HA 1669 – 1686).
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, April 11 [31]

Assignment: Literature and ‘The Woman Question’ – Read Sarah Moore Grimké, from Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and on the Condition of Woman; Angelina Grimké, ‘Letters to Catherine Beecher’; Sojourner Truth, ‘Remniscences by Frances D. Gage,’ Speech at the New York City Convention,’ ‘Address to the First Annual Meeting of the American Equal Rights Association’ (HA 2012 – 29); Fanny Fern, ‘The Working Girls of New York’ (HA 2030 – 2031, 2037 – 2038); Elizabeth Cady Stanton, from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, and Declaration of Sentiments (HA 2038 – 2044)

Further Reading: See Stanton and Anthony Papers Online

Monday, April 14 [32]

Assignment: Literature and the Slavery Question (1) – Read David Walker, from Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World; William Lloyd Garrison, ‘Editorial’; Lydia Maria Child, from Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans and ‘Letters’; Angelina Grimké, from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (HA 1774 – 1814); George Fitzhugh, from Southern Thought (HA 1908 – 1918).

Wednesday, April 16 [33]

Assignment: Literature and the Slavery Question (2) – Read Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (HA 1814 – 1880) and ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’ (HA 1881 – 1899). [Literature Jukebox - 'What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?' Frederick Douglass - Tyle Lahn]
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, April 18 [34]

Assignment: Literature and the Slavery Question (3) – Continue with Douglass.

Monday, April 21 [35]

Assignment: Literature and the Slavery Question (4) – Read Herman Melville, Benito Cereno (HA 2550 – 2553, 2598 – 2655).
Paper #2 – Literature of Slavery paper – assigned.

Wednesday, April 23 [36]

Assignment: Literature and the Slavery Question (5) – Continue with Melville.
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, April 25 [37]

Assignment: Melville and the Atlantic Hydrarchy – Read Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor (HA 2656 – 2714).

Monday, April 28 [38]

Assignment: Whitman, Dickinson and Visions of a New Self (1) – Read Walt Whitman, 'Song of Myself,' 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,' 'Respondez,' 'Democratic Vistas.' (HA 2863 - 2914, 2941 - 2948, 2957 - 2959, 2960 - 2969)

Wednesday, April 30 [39]

Assignment: Whitman, Dickinson and Visions of a New Self (2)
Emily Dickinson, poems (J numbers) 249, 258, 303, 324, 341, 448, 465, 501, 520, 569, 657, 670, 712, 754, 1737. (HA 2969 - 3008, various pages) [Literature Jukebox - 'Wild Nights - Wild Nights!' - Jenny Allen] ['I Can Wade Grief' - Jenny Allen]
Online discussion and reading responses to be posted before Friday.

Friday, May 2 [40]

Assignment: Whitman, Dickinson and Visions of a New Self (3)
Paper #3 due in section.

Monday, May 5 FINAL CLASS [41]

Review class

Final Exam --- Tuesday, May 13, 7:40-9:30am. Bring blue books.