SYLLABUS

Reference Materials:

September 1: Introduction.

September 6-8: John Winthrop, pp. 214-34; William Bradford, pp. 153-204.

September 11-15: Roger Williams, pp. 234-5, 245-6; Ann Bradstreet, pp.. 246-56, 268-79; Edward Taylor, pp. 330-36, 348-9; Mary Rowlandson, pp. 297-330.

September 18-22: Cotton Mather, pp. 373-85; Jonathan Edwards, pp. 440-52, 474-91, 436-40; Benjamin Franklin, pp. 491-569, 577-85. .

September 25-29: St. Jean de Crevecoeur, pp. 640-65; Tom Paine, pp. 691-711; Thomas Jefferson, pp. 714-33; Phyllis Wheatley, pp. 824-35.

October 2-6: Washington Irving, pp. 917-69; James Fenimore Cooper, pp. 980-96; Harriet Beecher Stowe, pp. 642-1706.

October 9-13: Ralph Waldo Emerson, pp. 1069-85, 1101-43.

October 16-20: Henry David Thoreau, pp. 1749-1820; Margaret Fuller, pp. 1592-1642.

October 23-27: Mid-Term Examination, OCTOBER 27th. Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 1480-97, 1499-1535, 1942-67.

October 30-November 3: Poe continued. Nathaniel Hawthorne, pp. 1220-73.

November 6-10: Nathaniel Hawthorne, pp. 1273-1305.

November 13-17: Herman Melville, pp. 2356-73, 2230-2427.

November 20-22: Herman Melville, Continued.

November 25: Thanksgiving Holiday.

November 27-December 1: Melville, Concluded.

December 4-10: Emily Dickinson, poems #49, 67, 130, 185, 199, 214, 258, 280, 303, 315, 435, 449, 465, 501, 520, 712, 1129, 1670. Other poems to be assigned.

December 11-13: To be announced.

December 17: Final paper is due by 3:00 P.M..