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CLASS # |
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READINGS |
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ASSIGNMENTS |
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Introduction |
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Origins |
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- William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation. (pages: 88-106)
- Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. (pages: 147-64)
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- Jonathan Edwards, Personal Narrative, A Devine and Supernatural Light and Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. (pages: 174-86, 200-211)
- Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth, Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America and The Autobiography. (pages: 211-46, 273-85)
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- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. (pages: 342-53)
- Phyllis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America; To Mæcenas; To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth; To the University of Cambridge, in New England; On teh Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770; Thoughts on the Works of Providence; To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works; and To His Excellency General Washington. (pages: 358-70)
- Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. (pages: 426-40)
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Essay One (5 pages) |
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Declarations of Independence |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and The American Scholar. (pages: 493-525)
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- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods, Ch. 1, 2, and 4. (pages: 868-920)
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Revision One (5 pages) |
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux. (pages: 584-7, 630-70)
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- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Ch. I, VI, VII, IX, and X. (pages: 967-1000)
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- Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno. (pages: 1103-34)
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Essay Two (5 pages) |
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- Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit. MAN versus MEN. WOMAN versus WOMEN. and Unfinished Sketch of Youth ("Autobiographical Romance"). (pages: 764-75)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Ch. VII, IX, and XXXIV. (pages: 791-821)
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- Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass and Song of Myself. (pages: 1001-5, 1057-1100)
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- Emily Dickinson, (pages: 1190-1211)
("I never lost as much but twice")
("Success is counted sweetest")
("These are the days when Birds come back--,--")
(" 'Faith' is a fine invention")
("I taste a liquor never brewed--")
("Safe in their Alabaster Chambers--")
("I like a look of Agony")
("Wild Nights--Wild Nights!")
("There's a certain Slant of light")
("A Clock stopped--")
("The Soul selects her own Society--")
("A Bird came down the Walk--")
("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--")
("I dreaded that first Robin, so")
("Much Madness is divinest Sense--")
("This is my letter to the World")
("This was a Poet--It is That")
("I died for Beauty--but was scarce")
("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--")
("This World is not Conclusion")
("I would not paint--a picture--")
("It Was not Death, for I stood up")
("The Brain--is wider than the Sky--")
("I cannot live with You--")
("Pain--has an Element of Blank--")
("Because I could not stop for Death--")
("My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--")
("A narrow Fellow in the Grass")
("The Bustle in a House")
("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--")
("A Route of Evanescence")
("Apparently with no surprise")
("My life closed twice before its close")
Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Revision Two (5 pages) |
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Realism and Satire |
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- Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in th Iron-Mills. (pages: 1211-39)
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- Samuel Clemens, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County. (pages: 1258-61, 1265-1314)
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- Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1314-66)
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- Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1366-1415)
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- Clemens, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (pages: 1416-1453)
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Essay Three (5 pages) |
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Sarah Orne Jewett, A White Heron. (pages: 1594-1602)
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Kate Chopin, At the 'Cadian Ball, The Storm, and Désirée's Baby. (pages: 1603-20)
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper. (pages: 1656-69)
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Edith Wharton, The Other Two. (pages: 1669-84)
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Vision and Revision |
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- Claude McKay, "Africa," "The Harlem Dancer," "The Lynching," "Harlem Shadows," America," and "If We Must Die." (pages: 2069-73)
- Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me and The Guilded Six-Bits. (pages: 2082-95)
- Jean Toomer, Cane. (pages: 2118-24)
- Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Mother to Son," "I, Too," "Mulatto," "Song for a Dark Girl," "Silhouette," "Visitors to the Black Belt," "Note on Commercial Theatre," and "Democracy." (pages: 2224-31)
- Countee Cullen, "Yet Do I Marvel," "Incident," and "Heritage." (pages: 2242-46)
- Richard Wright, The Man Who Was Almost a Man. (pages: 2247-56)
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- Toni Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 4-87)
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Revision Three (5 pages) |
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- Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 89-162)
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- Morrison, Jazz. (pages: 165-229)
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Conclusion |
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Essay Four (5 pages) |
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