ENG 560 Survey of American Lit. beginning to1865 (Graduate Course)

The course deals with literature written in the United States from its earliest colonial days to its Civil War and explores the philosophical and religious orientations that shaped the American culture and the shift from ‘public self’ to “individualism” in the 20’s of the 19th century. It also theorizes about the rise of nationalism and its effect on the US contemporary political hegemony. Old and new literary forms and types also come into focus in the course.

Week	Topic
1	Introduction to American Literature Iroquois Creation Story 21,  The Navajo Creation Story 25  Hajiiner (The Emergence) 26
2	Native American Trickster Tales: From The Winnebago                                  Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin) 105, Ikto                                  Conquers lya, the Eater (transcribed and edited by Ella C.                                  Deloria) 112 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) From Letter to Luis de                              Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (February 15, 1493)                              35 From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the                               Fourth Voyage (July 7, 1503) 36 Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566) The Very Brief                               Relation of the Devastation of the Indies 39 From                               Hispaniola 39 From The Coast of Pearls, Paria, and the                               Island of Trinidad 41 Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (c. 1490-1558) The                                 Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca H [Dedication)                                 44 [The Malhado Way of Life) 45 [Our Life among the                                 Avavares and Arbadaos) 47 [Pushing On) 48 [Customs                                  of That Region] 48 [The First Confrontation) 49 [The                                  Falling-Out with Our Countrymen] 50
3	Native Americans: Contact and Conflict 442 Pontiac: Speech at Detroit 440. Samson Occom: From A Short Narrative of My Life 441 Thomas Jefferson: Chief Logan's Speech, from Notes 011 the State of Virginia 448 Red Jacket: Reply to the Missionary Jacob Cram 410 Tecumseh: Speech to the Osages 413 William Apess (1798–1839) 124 A Son of the Forest 126 Chapter I 126 Chapter III 130 An Indian’s Looking- Glass for the White Man 135 “The Mayflower Compact” (Online) William Bradford And Edward Winslow: Mourt's Relation                              [Cape Cod Forays) 72, John Underhill: News from                              America [The Attack on Pequot Fort) 75 John Smith (1580-I63I) The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 83 The Third Book. From Chapter 2. What Happened till the First Supply 83 The Fourth Book. [Smith's Farewell to Virginia) 93 From A Description of New England 93 From New England's Trials 96 J.  Hector St. John De Crevecoeur (I735-I8I3) Letters from an American Farmer 605 From Letter Ill. What Is an American 605 From Letter IX. Description of Charles-Town; Thoughts on    Slavery; on Physical Evil; A Melancholy Scene 614 From Letter X. On Snakes; and on the Humming Bird 619 From Letter XII. Distresses of a Frontier Man 620
4	William Bradford (1590-1657) Of Plymouth Plantation John Winthrop (1588-1649) A Model of Christian Charity Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672): Selectins from her poems  Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of                                                              Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727)  The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to                                                                    New York 380 From Tuesday, October the Third 380 Friday, October the Sixth 3!B Saturday, October the Seventh 3H4 From December the Sixth 387 January the Sixth 389 Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
5	Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): The Way to Wealth 457                                   The Autobiography John Adams (I735-I826) And Abigail Adams (I744-                                    I818) 625 The Letters: 626-632 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Common Sense Thomas Jefferson (I743-I826) 659: The Declaration of Independence 661. Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) On the Equality of the Sexes 739 The Gleaner 747
6	Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) The Interesting Narrative                                    of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the                                    African, Written by Himself 688 From Chapter I 688                                   Chapter II 690 Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) 763 On Being Brought from Africa  to America 764 To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth 765 To the University of Cambridge, in New England 766 On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield,767 Thoughts on the Works of Providence 76R To S. M. a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works 771 To His Excellency General Washington 772 Letters 773 Omar ibn Said (1770-1864) Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina (online) Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Narrative of the Life of                                  Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by                                 Himself: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) “Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 720
7	Slavery, race, and the making of American literature 769 Thomas Jefferson: From Notes on the State of Virginia 770 David Walker: From David Walker’s Appeal in Four Articles Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm: To Our Patrons 777 William Lloyd Garrison: To the Public 780 Angelina E. Grimké: From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South 783 Sojourner Truth: Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, James M. Whitfield: Stanzas for the First of August 787 Martin R. Delany: From Political Destiny of the Colored Race on the American Continent Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813–1897) 909 Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 910 I. Childhood 910 VII. The Lover 913 X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life 917 XIV. Another Link to Life 921 XXI. The Loophole of Retreat 923 XLI. Free at Last 925 Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911) 1630 Eliza Harris 1631 The Slave Mother 1632 Ethiopia 1633 The Tennessee Hero 1634 Bury Me in a Free Land 1635 Learning to Read 1636
8	Hannah Webster Foster (1758-J84o) The Coc1uette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton 818 Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811–1872) 892 Aunt Hetty on Matrimony 894 Hungry Husbands 895 “Leaves of Grass” 896 Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books 899 “Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern” 900 A Law More Nice Than Just 901 Writing “Compositions” 903 Ruth Hall 905 Chapter LIV 905 Chapter LVI 907 Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) Hope Leslie Volume I, Chapter IV [Magawisca’s History of “The Pequod War”] 89 Volume II, Chapter XIV [Magawisca’s Farewell]
9	Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Washington Irving (1783–1859):”Rip Van Winkle” & “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Mahomet and His Successors Part I  James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) 62 The Pioneers 64 Volume II, Chapter II [The Judge’s History of the Settlement;  A Sudden Storm] 65 Volume II, Chapter III [The Slaughter of the Pigeons] 72 The Last of the Mohicans 79 Volume I, Chapter III [Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook; Stories  of the Fathers] 80 William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) 116 “Thanatopsis” 117 “To a Waterfowl” 119
10	Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly 794 Volume I Chapter I. In Which the Reader Is Introduced to a Man of Humanity 794 Chapter III. The Husband and Father 802 Chapter VII. The Mother’s Strug gle 805 Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is But a Man 815 Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade 826 Chapter XIII. The Quaker Settlement 838 Chapter XIV. Evangeline 845 Volume II Chapter XX. Topsy 852 From Chapter XXVI. Death 863 Chapter XXX. The Slave Ware house 867 Chapter XXXI. The Middle Passage 875 Chapter XXXIV. The Quadroon’s Story 879 Chapter XL. The Martyr Harding Davis (1831–1910) 1696 Life in the Iron- Mills 1698 Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888):  From Little Women 1742 Part Second. Chapter IV. Literary Lessons 1742
11	Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): Nature “The American Scholar” 210 “The Divinity School Address” 223 “Self- Reliance” 236 “The Poet” 254 “Experience” 269 Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): “Resistance to Civil Government” 953 Walden, or Life in the Woods 970 Slavery in Massachusetts 1144 From A Plea for Captain John Brown 1155 Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) The Great Lawsuit 725 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Selectins from her poems  Walt Whitman (1819–1892): Preface to Leaves of Grass 1297, “Song of Myself” Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1395                                                   From Democratic Vistas 1406
12	Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) “Young Goodman Brown” 345 “The Minister’s Black Veil” 368 “The Birth- Mark” 377 The Scarlet Letter 425 Preface to The House of the Seven Gables 569
13	Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): “The Philosophy of Composition”  “The Raven” “Israfel” “Annabel Lee” 618 “Ligeia” 619 “The Fall of the House of Usher” 629 “The Tell- Tale Heart” 666 “The Black Cat “ 670 “The Purloined Letter” 676 “The Cask of Amontillado” 696 Herman Melville (1819–1891)  Moby- Dick chapter 1-72
14	Herman Melville (1819–1891) Moby- Dick chapter 73-end.                                                    Hawthorne and His Mosses 1413  “Bartleby, the Scrivener” 1469 “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” 1495 Benito Cereno 1511
15	Presentation of your final Paper is due on April 14th 2019. Final paper is due on April 16th. Final Exam: 13-08-1440