BC 3180 SCHEDULE OF READINGS

NA=The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 4th edition, volume 1

DATE TOPIC AND READING ASSIGNMENT RELATED MATERIALS
January 21 Introduction:  Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-20): "The Author's Account of Himself" (handout and NA)
January 26 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, continued: "The Widow and Her Son" (handout and web), "Christmas Day" (handout and web), "Traits of Indian Character" (handout and web), "Philip of Pokanoket" (handout and web), "Rip Van Wiinkle" (NA 897-909), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (NA 909-929)
January 28 James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
DUE: ONE MESSAGE POSTED TO THE COURSE NEWSGROUP
February 2 Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, continued
February 4 William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston (1836) (in A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, pages 103-138)
February 5 screening of "The Last of the Mohicans," 7 pm, location to be announced
February 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836) (NA 993-1021)
February 11 Emerson, continued: The American Scholar (1837) (NA 1021-1033), The Divinity School Address (1838) (NA 1033-1045), "Self-Reliance" (1841) (NA 1045-1062)
February 16 Emerson, continued: "Experience" (1844) (NA 1088-1103)
February 18 Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) (NA 2033-2047), "Song of Myself" (NA 2048-2090), "Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1856) (NA 2090-2097)
ESSAY #1 DUE
February 23 Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854) (NA 1719-1889)
February 25 Walden, continued
March 2 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845) (NA 1932-1995)
March 4 Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
March 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) (NA 1249-1386)
March 11 The Scarlet Letter, continued
March 16 * SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS
March 18 * SPRING BREAK--NO CLASS
March 23 Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" (1845) (NA 1447-1450), "Ligeia" (1838) (NA 1453-1462), "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) (NA 1463-1475), "William Wilson. A Tale" (1839) (NA 1475-1488); "The Imp of the Perverse" (1842) (NA 1514-1517)
March 25 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) (Read at least to the end of chapter 32, pp. xxxvii-157 in the Penguin edition.)
March 30 Moby-Dick, continued (Read at least to the end of chapter 63, p. 316 in the Penguin edition.)
ESSAY #2 DUE
April 1 Moby-Dick, continued (Read at least to the end of chapter 99, p. 475 in the Penguin edition.)
April 6 Moby-Dick, concluded (Finish the novel.)
April 8 Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) (Read at least to the end of chapter 15, p. 184 in the Signet edition.)
April 13 Uncle Tom's Cabin, continued (Read at least to the end of chapter 30, p. 360 in the Signet edition.)
April 15 Uncle Tom's Cabin, continued (Finish the novel.)
April 20 Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
April 22 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, continued
April 27 Emily Dickinson, Poems 49, 67, 131, 148, 185, 214, 216, 214, 258, 285, 303, 305, 312, 314, 315, 322, 324, 441, 448, 501, 505, 528, 593, 632, 650, 664, 709, 939, 986, 1068, 1072, 1126, 1129, 1545, 1601, 1651 (NA 2443-2479) plus selected additional poems (handout)
April 29 Dickinson, continued Poems 199, 249, 280, 326, 328, 341, 348, 435, 449, 465, 488, 510, 520, 536, 547, 712, 732, 754, 1473, 1540, 1581 (NA 2443-2479) plus selected additional poems (handout)
ESSAY #3 DUE
May 4 Conclusion: Whitman, Drum-Taps (1865) (excerpts in NA 2121-2127 plus handouts); Melville, Battle Pieces and Aspects of War (1866) (excerpts in NA 2357-2360 plus handouts)
May 6 OPTIONAL REVIEW SESSION

FINAL EXAMINATION scheduled by registrar, currently listed Monday, May 11 at 1 pm in Barnard 302.

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