The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| January 23 | Introduction |
| Part I: Arrivals in the New World |
| January 28 | Christopher Columbus, from The Journal of the First Voyage to America
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation |
| January 30 | Father Jerome Lalemant, from The Relation of 1647
John Smith, from A Description of New England |
| February 4 | William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation |
| February 6 | Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson |
| February 11 | Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit" "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet"
Edward Taylor, Preparatory Mediations 1.8 and 2.26: "Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I am the Living Bread" and "Meditation. Heb. 9.13.14. how much more shall the blood of Christ, etc." |
| Part II: Enlightenment and Revolution |
| February 13 | Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" |
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BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| February 18 | J. Hector St. John de Crvecur, from Letters from an American Farmer |
| February 20 | Crèvecœur, continued |
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TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS. |
| February 25 | Tiomthy Dwight, from "Greenfield Hill"
Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
| February 27 | Philip Freneau, "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple"
Joel Barlow, "The Hasty Pudding" |
| March 4 | MID-TERM EXAMINATION |
| March 6 | Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple, chs. I-XI. |
| March 11 | Rowson, chs. XII-XXIII |
| March 13 | Rowson, chs. XXIV-XXXV |
| March 18-22 | Spring Break |
| Part III: An American Renaissance |
| March 25 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
| March 27 | Thoreau, from Walden, pp. 1687-1703 |
| April 1 | Thoreau, from Walden, pp. 1703-1721 |
| April 3 | Sarah Margaret Fuller, from Woman in the Nineteenth Century
John Greenleaf Whittier, "The Hunters of Men," "The Farewell," "Massachusetts to Virginia" |
| April 8 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave |
| April 10 | Douglass, continued |
| April 15 | Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, "The Custom House" (pp. 2235-2259) |
| April 17 | Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, chs. 1-8 |
| April 22 | Hawthorne, chs. 9-15 |
| April 24 | Hawthorne, chs. 16-24 |
| Part IV: Thoughts on the Individual |
| April 29 | Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd," "The Philosophy of Composition," "The Raven" |
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BRING WORKING DRAFT OF RESEARCH PAPER TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING. |
| May 1 | Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno" |
| May 6 | Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" |
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TURN IN FINAL DRAFT OF LITERARY ANALYSIS. |
| May 8 | Emily Dickinson, "Poems" |
| May 15 | FINAL EXAM FROM 10AM TO NOON |