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309-01 Early American Literature
Prof. Ann Brunjes MW 12:20 - 1:35 Hunt 202
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Rowson, Susanna.
Charlotte Temple. New York: Oxford UP 1986. Charles
Brockden Brown, Wieland, or, The
Transformation (Penguin)
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Week 1
Supplemental
sources: Colonization
and Print in the Americas; Columbus
and the Age of Discovery Week 2 Monday September 10 John Smith, from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles; (57-66); from A Description of New England (66-69). Native American Creation Stories “The Iroquois Creation Story,” (17). Pima “Story of the Creation” and “The Story of the Flood” (22; 24). Secondary reading: William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. Wednesday September 12 Varieties of Colonial Religious Experience Samuel Sewall, from The Diary of Samuel Sewall (288-303). Roger Williams, from The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (184-186); “A Letter to the Town of Providence” (186). Woolman, from Journal (588-595). Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative (386-396).The Puritan Sermon Thomas Hooker, “Meditation,” “Wandering Thoughts” (CP). John Cotton, “Swine and Goats” (CP). Increase Mather, “Predestination and Human Exertions,” and “Sleeping at Sermons,” (CP); Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (425). RESPONSE 1 DUE.
Week
3 Monday September 17 Colonial
Historical Narrative William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation:
107-138. Thomas Morton, from The New English Canaan (139-146). Week 4 Monday September 24
Puritan Poetry Anne Bradstreet, “The Prologue” (188-9); "The Author to Her Book" (204); “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” (205); "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment" (206); “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet,” (210); “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet,” (210); “On my Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet,” (211); “For Deliverance from a Fever” (211-2); "Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House" (212-3). Wednesday September 26 Edward Taylor, "Prologue" (269-70); "Meditation 8" (270-1); "Meditation 22" (272-3); “Meditation 38” (273-4); “Meditation 26 (Second Series)” (276-7); “The Soul’s Groan to Christ for Succor” (279-80); “Christ’s Reply” (280-3); “Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children” (283-4).
Week 5 Monday October 1 Continue
discussion of Edward Taylor.
Captivity Narrative Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the
Captivity (236-267). Travel Literature I Sarah Kemble
Knight, from The Private Journal (368). Secondary reading:
Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. Good Wives: Image and Reality in the Lives
of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750. (CP) Wednesday October 3
Enlightenment and its Discontents Monday October 8 NO CLASS; COLUMBUS DAY Wednesday October 10 Equiano continued. RESPONSE 3 DUE. Week 7 Monday October 15 Travel Literature II Timothy Dwight, from Travels in New England and New York (CP). Samson Occom: from A Short Narrative of My Life (CP). Wednesday October 17 Thomas Jefferson, from Notes on the State of Virginia (657-665); “Letter to Nathaniel Burwell, Esq.” (CP). Thomas Paine, Common Sense (630-37); The Crisis, No. 1 (637-43).
Monday October 22 Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography, Parts One and Two (472-534). Supplemental sources: E-text of the Autobiography and useful web resources (but do me a favor and ignore the “SparkNotes” link). Wednesday October 24 Franklin continued. Secondary Reading: Jill Lepore, "The Sharpened Quill." http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/16/061016crbo_books .
Monday October 29 Hector
St. John de Crevecoeur, from Letters from an American Farmer,
“Letter III. What is an American?” (596-605); “Letter XII. Distresses
of a Frontier Man” (611-616).
E-text
and handy links for Crevecoeur from American Literature on the Web.
Wednesday October 31 (Halloween!) Poetry of the Early National Period George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, “On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America,” (CP). Philip Freneau, “On the Emigration to America” (799); “The Wild Honey Suckle” (800); “To Sir Toby” (802); “The Indian Burying Ground” (801); “To a New England Poet” (807).
Week
10 Monday November 5
Timothy Dwight, from Greenfield Hill Part II: “The
Flourishing Village” (CP). Phillis Wheatley: "On Being Brought from
Africa" (810); “On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield” (814);
"To His Excellency General Washington," (819); Letter “To Rev. Samson
Occom,” (823). Supplemental
Sources:
Full text of
Wheatley’s Poems
on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Wednesday November 7 Drama of the Early Republic Royall Tyler, The Contrast (826). RESPONSE 5 DUE. Week 11 Monday November 12 NO CLASS; VETERANS’ DAY Wednesday November 14 (Monday schedule of classes) The Contrast continued. Term essay final proposal due this week via email. Week 12 Monday November 19
Fiction of the Early Republic Susanna Rowson, Wednesday November 21 Charlotte Temple continued. Monday November 26 Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette. Wednesday November 28 The Coquette continued. Secondary reading: Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, “Reading The Coquette.” (CP) Monday December 3 Joel
Barlow, “Advice to a Raven in Russia” (CP). Wednesday December 5 Wieland. Read through chapter XIII (page 144). *** Brunjes Open Office Hours, Friday December 7, 9AM - 11AM ***
Monday December 10 Wieland. Read through chapter XXI, page 218. Wednesday December 12 Wieland. Chapter XXII to end. TERM ESSAY DUE. Reading Day: Thursday December 13 Final Exam: Wednesday December 19, 11 - 1
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