ENGL 496-001 Rise of the American Novel  

Prof. Ann Brunjes

T/R 2-3:15 Maxwell 310

Office:  Tillinghast 308

Fall 2006 Office Hours:  T/R 11-12

abrunjes@bridgew.edu

Brunjes homepage

(508) 531-2435

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Required Texts

• Charles Brockden Brown.  Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker (Penguin) 0-14-03-9062-6
• James Fenimore Cooper.  The Pioneers (Penguin) 0-14-039007-3
• Fanny Fern.  Ruth Hall (Rutgers UP) 0-8135-1168-2

• Nathaniel Hawthorne.  The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings. 
  (Norton) 0-393-97953-9

• Herman Melville.  Moby-Dick.  (Norton) 0-393-97283-6

• Susannah Rowson.  Charlotte Temple (Oxford) 0-19-504238-7

• Catherine Maria Sedgwick.  Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts(Rutgers UP) 0-8135-1222-0

• Harriet Beecher Stowe.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  (Norton) 0-393-96303-9

Recommended, not required

• Gibaldi, Joseph.  The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.  Sixth Edition.  
       New York :  MLA, 2003.

• Harmon, William and Hugh Holman.  A Handbook to Literature. Ninth Edition.  New Jersey :  Prentice Hall, 2003.

Requirements and Grading
Essay 1, 3-5 pages (20%); Term Essay Proposal (approx. 500 words, ungraded); Term Essay, 12-15 pages (45%); weekly secondary essay response (approx. 1 page each per critical essay, 10%); presentation and summary (approx. 500 words, 15%);  participation (10%).  Your attendance is expected.  

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Format and Electronic Submissions
All essays written out of class must be typed, double-spaced, in 12 pt. font, with 1" margins (left, right, top and bottom). Include a "works cited" page when appropriate. Follow current MLA (Modern Language Association) format for in-text citations and works cited pages. Essays submitted in incorrect format will be returned unread and marked late as necessary until corrections are made.  You may submit written work to me via email, under the following conditions: your document must be sent as an attachment, not as part of the email message, in Microsoft Word; it must be correctly formatted; it must be submitted on the date due, neither earlier nor later.

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Getting in touch with me
I am happy to respond to questions and ideas via email at abrunjes@bridgew.edu. If you email me, I will do my best to return your message within two business days.  You can also reach me by phone (508 531 2435) during my office hours and most afternoons until 4:00 .

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is a very serious academic offense; it is equivalent to theft. Because you do a great deal of writing in this class, I will become familiar with your style and your capabilities and can spot plagiarism easily.  If you plagiarize, at the very least I will fail the essay in question. Depending on the seriousness of the offense, you may fail the course and/or face disciplinary action before the college academic review panel.  See pp. 51-52 of the 2004-2006 BSC Catalog for a detailed discussion of college policies concerning academic integrity.

Simply put, plagiarism is “the false assumption of authorship:  the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s mind, and presenting it as one’s own” (Alexander Lindey, qtd. in MLA Handbook 66).  According to the MLA Handbook, there are two kinds of plagiarism.  The first is intellectual theft, which is achieved by “using another person’s ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person’s work.”  The second is fraud, achieved by “passing off another person’s ideas information, or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage” (66).  

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Schedule of Assignments