Schedule

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.

T September 2 Introduction
Th September 4 Charles E. Bressler, Literary Criticism, Chapter 1
 
T September 9 Bressler, Chapter 2
Th September 11 Quiz on Bressler, Chs. 1-2
Bressler, Chapter 3
 
T September 16 Bressler, Chapter 4
Peer Edit Book Review
Th September 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Custom-House"
 
T September 23 Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapters I-V
Th September 25 Hawthorne, Chapters VII-IX
Book Review Due
 
T September 30 Hawthorne, Chapters X-XIV
Th October 2 Hawthorne, Chapters XV-XIX
 
T October 7 Hawthorne, Chapters XX-XXIV
Th October 9 Midterm Exam
 
T October 14 Hawthorne, Letters (219-232)
Michael Winship, "Hawthorne and the 'Scribbling Women': Publishing The Scarlet Letter in the Nineteenth-Century United States" (418-426)
Th October 16 Laura Hanft Korobkin, "The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice" (426-451)
Peer-edit Passage Analysis Paper
 
T October 21 Millicent Bell, "The Obliquity of Signs: The Scarlet Letter" (451-463)
T October 23 Stephen Railton, "The Address of The Scarlet Letter" (481-500)
Passage Analysis Paper Due
 
T October 28 Nina Baym, "Revisiting Hawthorne's Feminism" (541-558)
Quiz on Hawthorne's Critics
Th October 30 Bressler, Chapter 5
 
T November 4 Bressler, Chapters 6-7
Th November 6 Bressler, Chapters 9-10
 
T November 11 Quiz on Bressler
William Shakespeare, Othello, Act I
Th November 13 Shakespeare, Acts II and III
 
T November 18 Shakespeare, Acts IV and V
Th November 20 Edward Pechter, "Othello in Its Own Time" (129-151)
Peer-Edit Critical Analysis Paper
 
T November 25 Thomas Rymer, "A Bloody Farce" (201-210)
G. K. Hunter, "Othello and Colour Prejudice" (248-262)
Th November 27 Thanksgiving Holiday
 
T December 2 Lynda E. Boose, "Othello's Handkerchief: 'The Recognizance and Pledge of Love'" (262-275)
Th December 4 Mark Rose, "Othello's Occupation" (275-289)
Critical Analysis Paper Due in Class
 
T December 9 James R. Siemon, "'Nay, That's Not Next': Othello, [5.2] in Performance, 1760-1900" (289-306)
Th December 11 Michael Neill, "Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery and the Hideous in Othello" (306-328)
 
M December 15 Final Exam, 12-1:55pm