SCHEDULE OF READINGS: (NA = The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th edition, Vol. A. W=online)
| DATE | ASSIGNMENT | Supplemental materials |
| W 9/5 | Introduction | |
| M 9/10 | ORIGINS
I: Cusick, "The Iroquois Creation Story" (NA 17-21);
Thin Leather and Lloyd, "The [Pima] Story of the
Creation" (NA 21-31); Abbey and Williams, "The Bungling Host" (NA
86-91); Williams, A Key into the Language of America (excerpts in
NA, 173-184); de las Casas, The Very Brief
Relation of the Devastation of the Indies (excerpts in NA,
35-39); Cabeza de Vaca, The Relation of
Álvar
Núñez
Cabeza de Vaca (excerpts in NA 40-48)
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| W 9/12 | ORIGINS II: Bradford,
Of Plymouth Plantation, chs. 1-14 (Modern College Library Edition pp. 1-154) * DUE: WIKI ASSIGNMENT 1: CREATION OF YOUR WIKI PAGE AND POSTING OF AN INTRODUCTION. |
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| M 9/17 | ORIGINS II,
continued: Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, chs. 15-22 (Modern College Library
Edition pp. 154-277); Morton, New English Canaan (excerpts in NA
138-146) |
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| W 9/19 | ORIGINS II, continued: Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, chs. 23-36 (Modern College Library Edition pp. 278-385) | |
| M 9/24 | ORIGINS III: Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity (NA 147-158); "[Winthrop’s Speech to the General Court]," from The Journal of John Winthrop (NA 164-167) | |
| W 9/26 | THE PURITAN SERMON: Hooker, The Soules Preparation (excerpts on W), Cotton, Christ the Fountaine of Life, sermons 1 and 3 (W); Shepard, The Parable of the Ten Virgins, chs. 1-6 (W) | |
| M 10/1 | PRIVATE PIETY: Thomas Shepard, The Autobiography, in God’s Plot, pp. 35-79. | |
| W 10/3 | PURITAN POETS I: Bradstreet, "The Prologue" (NA 188-189), "In Honor of That High and Mighty Princess Queen Elizabeth of Happy Memory" (NA 189-93); Contemplations" (NA 195-202), "The Flesh and the Spirit" (NA 202-204), "The Author to Her Book" (NA 204-205), "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" (NA 205-206), "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (NA 206), "A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment" (NA 206-207), "Another [Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment]" (NA 207-208), "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House" (NA 212-213), "As Weary Pilgrim" (NA 213-214), "Meditations Divine and Moral" 38 (handout and online), "A Dialogue between Old England and New" (W), "To My Dear Children" (NA 214-217) |
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| M 10/8 | PURITAN
POETS II: Bradstreet continued * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF FIRST REACTION PAPER |
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| W 10/10 | PURITAN
POETS II: Taylor, "Prologue" (NA 269-270),
"Meditation 8 (First Series)" (NA 270-271), "Meditation 16 (First
Series)" (NA 271-272), "Meditation 22 (First Series)" (NA
272-273), "Meditation 42 (First Series)" (NA 275-276), "Meditation 26
(Second Series)" (NA 276-277), "Meditation 150 (Second Series)" (NA
277-278), "The Preface" (NA 278-279), "The Soul’s Groan to Christ for
Succor" (NA 279-280), "Christ’s Reply" (NA 280-283), "The Joy
of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended" (W), "Upon Wedlock, and Death
of Children" (NA 283-284), "Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold" (NA
284-285), "The Ebb and Flow" (W)),
"Upon the Sweeping Flood" (W),
"Meditation 3 (First Series)" (W);
George Herbert, "Jordan (II)" (W) * DUE: WIKI ASSIGNMENT 2: POST A REACTION PAPER TO THE WIKI, CREATING LINKS FROM THE APPROPRIATE AUTHOR PAGE AND FROM YOUR WIKI PAGE.
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| M 10/15 | PURITAN POETS II: Taylor, continued. | |
| W 10/17 | PURITAN POETS III:
Wigglesworth,
The
Day of Doom |
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| M 10/22 | CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE: Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (NA 235-267) | |
| W10/24 | JONATHAN EDWARDS AS SCHOLAR AND THEOLOGIAN: "A Divine and Supernatural Light" (NA 404-417), "[The Beauty of the World]" (W), excerpts from Images or Shadows of Divine Things (W) | |
| M 10/29 | EDWARDS AND THE GREAT AWAKENING: Edwards, "Personal Narrative" (NA 386-396) "[Sarah Pierrepont]" (NA 396-397), "Letter to Rev. Dr. Benjamin Colman" (NA 417-425), "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (NA 425-436); Charles Chauncy, "Enthusiasm Described and Caution'd Against" (excerpts, W) | |
| W 10/31 | QUAKER PIETY AND
ABOLITION: Woolman, The Journal of John Woolman (23-192, 297-8) * NOTE: Starred on-line versions are NOT the same text as the scholarly edition we'll be using in class. |
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| F 11/2 | * DUE: WIKI ASSIGNMENT 3: USE THE WIKI'S COMMENTS FEATURE TO POST A ONE-PARAGRAPH RESPONSE TO A CLASSMATE’S POSTED REACTION PAPER. | |
| M 11/5 | ACADEMIC HOLIDAY-- NO CLASS | |
| W 11/7 | QUAKER PIETY AND
ABOLITION: Woolman, continued.
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| M 11/12 | DECLARING INDEPENDENCE I: Franklin, The Autobiography (NA 472-587) | |
| W 11/14 | DECLARING
INDEPENDENCE I: Franklin, continued. Paine, The Age
of Reason (excerpt in NA
643-649)
* DUE: WIKI ASSIGNMENT 4: POST A SECOND REACTION PAPER TO THE WIKI, CREATING LINKS FROM THE APPROPRIATE AUTHOR PAGE AND FROM YOUR WIKI PAGE. |
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| M 11/19 | DECLARING INDEPENDENCE II: Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (excerpts in NA 674-709) | |
| W 11/21 | DECLARING INDEPENDENCE III: Paine, Common Sense (excerpts in NA 630-637); Jefferson, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (excerpts in NA 649-657); Adams and Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams (excerpts in NA 616-629), Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (NA 724-733) | |
| M 11/27 | AMERICAN
NEOCLASSICISM AND PUBLIC POLEMICAL VERSE:
Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (NA 753-753), "To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North America, &c." (NA 754-755), "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" (NA 755-756), "On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770" (NA 756-757), "Thoughts on the Works of Providence" (NA 757-760), "To His Excellency General Washington" (NA 761-762), selected letters (NA 763-764); Freneau, "On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country" (NA 743-744), "The Wild Honey Suckle" (NA 744-745), "The Indian Burying Ground" (NA 745-746), "To Sir Toby" (NA 746-748), "On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man" (NA 748-749), "On the Religion of Nature" (NA 749-750), "Literary Importation" (handout , use link, or see file in class files section of Courseworks) |
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| W 11/28 | AMERICAN AND ENGLISH
CULTURE: Barlow,
The Hasty Pudding (W); Tyler, The Contrast
(NA 764-805) |
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| M 12/3 | THE NOVEL IN THE
EARLY REPUBLIC I: Foster,
The Coquette
(NA 806-904) * FINAL DEADLINE FOR FIVE-TO-SIX-PAGE PAPER |
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| W 12/5 | THE NOVEL IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC II: Brown, Wieland Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (excerpt in NA 595-605). (Note: Memoirs of Carwin, printed with Wieland in the Penguin edition, is not assigned.) | |
| M 12/10 | THE NOVEL IN THE
EARLY REPUBLIC II: Brown, Wieland,
continued, and CONCLUSION * FINAL REACTION PAPERS DUE * REACTION PAPER PORTFOLIOS DUE |
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| W 12/12 | OPTIONAL REVIEW SESSION |
FINAL EXAMINATION as scheduled by the registrar, currently projected for Monday, December 17 at 9 am in Milbank 202
