English 241
American Literature to
1860
Spring 2003
Final Examination Text Coverage
Linebaugh & Rediker, The
Many-Headed Hydra
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); John Woolman, from The Journal of John
Woolman and Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (HA
664-683).
Benjamin 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 The
Autobiography (HA 782-784, 785-796, 798-801, 804-867)
Thomas Paine, from Common Sense, 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).
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa (HA 1116-1149)
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).
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).
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 Mæcenas,’ ‘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)
Royall Tyler, ‘The Contrast: A Comedy in Five Acts’ (HA 1257
– 1300)
Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette; or, the History of
Eliza Wharton (HA 1306 – 1325)
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)
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); Augustus Longstreet, ‘The Horse Swap’ (HA 2061 – 2065).
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).
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘The Birthmark’ and ‘Rappaccini’s
Daughter’ (HA 2204 – 2234), The Scarlet Letter (HA 2235 – 2372) and
Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (HA 2372 – 2373)
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), ‘The Purloined Letter’ and ‘The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar’ (HA
2430 – 2449); ‘The Raven,’ ‘The
Philosophy of Composition,’ ‘The City in the Sea,’ ‘The Sleeper,’ ‘Ulalume,’
and ‘Annabel Lee’ (HA 2467 – 2470, 2449 – 2457, 2461 – 2464, 2470 – 2474)
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).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Nature’, ‘The American Scholar,’ and
‘The Poet’ (HA 1512 – 1555, 1572 – 1587); ‘Self-Reliance’ (HA 1555 – 1572);
Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government (HA 1669 – 1686).
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)
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).
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).
Herman Melville, Benito Cereno (HA 2550 – 2553, 2598
– 2655); Billy Budd, Sailor (HA 2656 – 2714).
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass ['Song of Myself,' 'When Lilacs Last
in the Dooryard Bloomed,' 'Respondez,' 'Democratic Vistas’] and Dickinson, Poems [J numbers 249, 258, 303, 324, 341,
448, 465, 501, 520, 569, 657, 670, 712, 754, 1737].