|
Date |
Assignments—there will
often be supplementary readings assigned. |
|
R01/17 |
Course Introduction Overview of Literature and Education in the 19th
Century |
|
T01/22 |
Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (1819-20) and "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
(1820) |
|
R01/24 |
Masur, 1831 pp. 3-62 |
|
T01/29 |
Masur, 1831 pp. 63-168 |
|
R01/31 |
Masur, 1831 pp. 169-216 |
|
T02/05 |
Emerson "The American Scholar" (1837),"Self-Reliance" (1841) |
|
R02/07 |
Emerson "On Education" (1860) |
|
T02/12 |
Poe "William Wilson" (1839) and "The Man in the Crowd" (1840) |
|
R02/14 |
Hawthorne, "My Kinsman Major Molineux" (1832), "Howe's Masquerade"
(1842), "Queen Christina" (1850) |
|
T02/19 |
Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) |
|
R02/21 |
Douglass Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) |
|
T02/26 |
Melville Selections from The Encantadas (1854); Holmes "The
Chambered Nautilus" (1858) |
|
R02/28 |
Melville "The Paradise of Bachelors, The Tartarus of Maids" (1855),
"The Bell Tower" (1856) |
|
T03/04 |
Davis "Life in the Iron-Mills" (1861) |
|
R03/06 |
TBA |
|
M03/10-14 |
SPRING BREAK |
|
T03/18 |
Review
Davis "Life in the Iron-Mills" (1861); Essay on
Industrialization's effects on education" (Craig distributed on 3/4) |
|
R03/20 |
Dickinson &
Whitman Selected Poems |
|
F03/21-24 |
EASTER BREAK |
|
T03/25 |
Whitman, Selections from Drum-Taps (1865); Melville, Selections
from Battle-Pieces |
|
R03/27 |
All subsequent short story assignments are from Nagel & Quirk.
Harris, "Free Joe and the Rest of the World" (1886), Garland, "The
Return of A Private" (1890), Bierce "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
(1890) |
|
T
04/01 |
Jewett, "The White Heron" (1886), Freeman, "The Revolt of a Mother"
(1890), Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892) |
|
R04/03 |
catch-up day |
|
T04/08 |
Crane, "The Men in the Storm" (1894), "An Experiment in Misery"
(1894), Dreiser, "Curious Shifts of the Poor" (1899), London "The Law
of Life" (1901); Essay 2 Due |
|
R04/10 |
Chopin, The Awakening (1899) |
|
T04/15 |
Chopin, The Awakening (1899) |
|
R04/17 |
Chopin, The Awakening (1899); Biographical & Historical
contexts, 3-21; Contextual Documents pp. 140-66; |
|
T04/22 |
FOUNDER'S DAY |
|
R04/24 |
Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) |
|
T04/29 |
Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) ???? one or two |
|
R
05/01 |
Chicago |
|
T05/06 |
TBA |
|
R05/ |
EXAM TBA |
