Phillis Wheatley (c. 1754–84) |
Michael K. JohnsonEnglish 270: Survey of Early American Literature, Spring 2005SyllabusMeets9:00–9:50 or 10:00–10:50 MWF/Roberts 205 Required text
NotePlease note the page range assigned for each of the readings. In some cases, we will be reading selections only from a longer work. |
| Date | Reading | |
|---|---|---|
| 1/19 | Introduction | |
| 1/21 | Native American Oral Literature,38–50; "Talk Concerning the First Beginning" (Zuni), 24–38; History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531, 165–73 | |
| Cultures in Contact and Religious Issues in Colonial America | ||
| 1/24 | Columbus, from The Journal of the First Voyage to America, 107–16; Cabeza de Vaca, from Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, 119–31; de Champlain, from The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 205–11; | |
| 1/26 | de Otermín, "Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680," 182–90; "The Coming of the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt" (Hopi), 190–94 | |
| 1/28 | Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, 311–18; Harriot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, 224–33; Mather, from The Wonders of the Invisible World, 495–502 | |
| 1/31 | Ines de la Cruz, selected poems, 173–82, "In Reply to a Gentleman from Peru," "High-Born Drunkard," "Villancico VI, from Santa Catarina, 1691" | |
| 2/2 | Bradstreet, poems, 382–90 ("The Prologue," "Queen Elizabeth," "The Author to Her Book") | |
| 2/4 | Bradstreet, poems, 390–401 ("To Her Father," "The Flesh and Spirit," "Before the Birth," "To My Dear and Loving Husband," "A Letter to Her Husband," "In Memory of…Elizabeth Bradstreet," "On My Dear Grandchild Simon," "Upon the Burning of Our House," "To My Dear Children") | |
| 2/7 | Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 641–52; Ashbridge, from Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, 652–64 | |
| 2/9 | Byrd, from The History of the Dividing Line, 598–618 | |
| 2/11 | Workshop on essay writing | |
| 2/14 | General workshop on essay writing | |
| 2/16 | Draft due for essay #1 | |
| 2/18 | Essay #1 due; "Voices of Revolution and Nationalism," 777–79; Songs and Ballads, "The Liberty Song," 1030–32; "The King's own REGULARS," 1033–36; "The Irishman's Epistle," 1036–37; "When Good Queen Elizabeth Governed the Realm," 1044–45; "Song for Fishing Party," 1045–46; "Burrowing Yankees," 1046 | |
| 2/21–25 | February Break | |
| Declarations of Independence and the Literature of Abolition and Slavery | ||
| 2/28 | Crevecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer, 902–910; Warren, "To Fidelio" and from The Group, 867–93 | |
| 3/2 | Meet in Mantor Library, Electronic Classroom | |
| 3/4 | Jefferson, 970–74; Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments," 2042–44; Fern, 2030–38 | |
| 3/7 | Rowson, from Charlotte Temple, 1326–39; Foster, from The Coquette, 1306–26 | |
| 3/9 | Emerson, from Nature, 1512–23; Thoreau, from "Walking," 1737–41; 1747–55 | |
| 3/11 | Sedgwick, from Hope Leslie, 2135–49; | |
| 3/14 | Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," 2400–13; "The Raven," 2467–70 | |
| 3/16 | Equiano, from Interesting Narrative of the Life, 1116–17, 1126–49 | |
| 3/18 | Wheatley, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," 1212; "Philis's Reply," 1215–17; "Letter," 1220–21; Whittier, "The Farewell," 1617–18 | |
| 3/21 | Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1960–85; Harper, "The Slave Mother," 1930–31 | |
| 3/23 | Grimke, from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1805–14 | |
| 3/25 | Walker, "Appeal. . . to the Coloured Citizens of the World," 1775–96 | |
| 3/28 | Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 1881–1900 | |
| 3/30 | TBA | |
| 4/1 | Video: Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. Dir. Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon. Perf. Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson, Oprah Winfrey. DVD. Home Box Office, 2003. | |
| 4/4 | Bryant, "To Cole, the Painter," 2817; Longfellow, "Aftermath," 2827; Melville, "The Portent," "A Utilitarian View of the Monitor's Fight," 2727–28; Whitman, "A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest," 2938–39 | |
| 4/6 | Draft due for workshop on Essay #2 | |
| 4/8 | Essay #2 due; Hawthorne, "Preface," 2372–73; "Rappaccini's Daughter," 2215–34 | |
| 4/11 | Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener," 2550–80 | |
| 4/13 | Class does not meet: UMF Symposium Day | |
| 4/15 | Davis, "Life in the Iron-Mills," 2761–88 | |
| 4/18–4/26 | April Break | |
| 4/25 | Group workshop on author presentations | |
| 4/27 | Author presentations | |
| 4/29 | Author presentations | |
| 5/2 | Whitman and Dickinson (selected poetry) | |
| 5/4 | Whitman and Dickinson (selected poetry) | |
| 5/6 | Whitman and Dickinson (selected poetry) | |
| 5/9–5/13 | Final Exam Week |