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Schedule: Awakenings in 19^th American Literature: from Romanticism to Realism
Week	Topics / Authors / Links	Readings
1 Feb 19-21	Intro and Welcome	Read these selections about “prairies”: “The Praire” by William Cullen Bryant, these poems by Dickinson and Whitman; “A Tour of the Prairies” by Washington Irving, some words on prairies by Thoreau, and “The Prairie” from Moby Dick. Intro to Romanticism. Irving, “Rip Van Winkle.”
2 Feb 26-28	Nature’s Nation.	Nature (intro, Ch. 1 on “Nature,” Ch. 3 on “Beauty,” and Ch. 4 on “Language” see also this web study text),“Self Reliance.” See also, “Introduction to Nature.”
3 Mar 5-7	Transcendental Exploration	“Economy” from Walden (or read from web study text). Read also “Where I Lived and What I Lived For” (Chapter 2) and “Conclusion.” Also, “Resistance to Civil Government, “ (or web study text) and Emerson on Thoureau’s death. Response 1 due
4 Mar 12-14	Romantic Quests and Doubt	Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” and “My Kinsman, Major Molineaux.” Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (web study text). Response 2 due
5 Mar 19-21	Workplace	Melville, “Bartleby, Srivener: A Tale of Wall Street.” Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills.” Bartleby outline. Response 3 due
6 Mar 28	Whitman	“Song of Myself˝(1-6, 10, 13, 21, 24, 32, 42, 46, 50-51, 52) (see also web study text), “One’s Self I Sing,” “I Sing the Body Electric,” “The Dalliance of the Eagles,” “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” “The Wound Dresser,” "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking” (study text). (Note: no Wednesday class this week. Everybody meet on Friday)
7 Apr 2-4	Dickinson	Selected Poems; see also, “Some keep the Sabbath going to church,” A bird came down the walk,” Response 4 due
8 Apr 9 – 11		Student teaching
9 Apr 16 –18		Student teaching
10 Apr 23-25	Realism	Mark Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters I, VIII, XI, XV and XVI;
11 Apr 30- May 2		Labor Day Holidays
12 May 7-9	Gender	Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Also listen to the radio play. Response 5 due
13 May 14-16	Race	Booker T. Washington, "The Awakening of the Negro”; W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk(Chapters 1, 2, and 3).
14 May 21-23	Marriage	Chopin, Kate. The Awakening NO FRIDAY CLASS THIS WEEK
15 May 28-30		The Awakening cont’d Watch Thelma and Louise ??
16 Jun 4-6	Naturalism and Going West	Crane, Stephen, ˝The Blue Hotel˝ Summary and ˝survey˝ Response 6 due in class. Return all books. If your revise responses, please see me about how to improve. Include the first one with the final.
Jun 11-13		Return papers and final grades.