The American Literary Tradition

11:15am–12:30pm (75 min/class), Monday–Friday, Sept. 29–Oct. 24

Room CC1254A

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Week One:

M 9/29

Harriot, “A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia”

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T 9/30

Bradford, “Of Plymouth Plantation”

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W 10/1

Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration”

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TH 10/2

Bradstreet, “The Prologue”

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“The Author to Her Book”

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“Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”

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Taylor, “Prologue” to the Preparatory Meditations

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“Huswifery”

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Wheatley, “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

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“To S.M.,...”

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F 10/3

Franklin, The Autobiography

Chapter IX, Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection

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Week Two:

M 10/6Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life

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T 10/7Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”

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W 10/8

Emerson, “The American Scholar”

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Hawthorne, “The Birth-Mark”

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TH 10/9

Poe, “The Raven”

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“Ulalume”

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“The Purloined Letter”

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F 10/10

Douglass, Narrative of the Life

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Week Three:

M 10/13Thoreau, from Walden, “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”

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T 10/14

Whitman

1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass

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“Song of Myself,” sections 1–3, 15, 51

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Melville

“Bartleby, the Scrivener”

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W 10/15

Dickinson

“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”

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“There’s a certain Slant of light”

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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”

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“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”

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TH 10/16

Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

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Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” from The Souls of Black Folk

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F 10/17

Bierce, “Chickamauga”

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Week Four:

M 10/20

Frost

“Mending Wall”

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“The Road Not Taken”

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“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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Stevens

“A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”

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“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

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Williams

“Spring and All”

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“The Red Wheelbarrow”

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“This Is Just to Say”

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T 10/21

Jeffers

“Shine, Perishing Republic”

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Eliot

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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W 10/22

Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”

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TH 10/23

Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

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F 10/24

Bishop

“In the Waiting Room”

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“One Art”

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Brooks

“Ballad of Emmett Till”

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Ginsberg

“A Supermarket in California”

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