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English 2131: American Literature I

English 2131: American Literature Syllabus  

Assignments and Logistics

 

Readings

·        John Winthrop's Reason for the Plantation in New England

·        John Winthrop's A Model of Christian Charity

·        Mary Rowlandson's A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

·        Thomas Paine's Common Sense

·        The Declaration of Independence

·        Phillis Wheatley Poetry

·        Excerpts Notes On The State of Virginia by Thomas Jefferson

·         Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson

·        Black Hawk's Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk

·        Margaret Fuller's The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women

·        Nature

·        The American Scholar

·        Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass  

·        Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

·        What to a Slave by Frederick Douglass

·        Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

·        The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

·        The Facts in the Case of M. Valdermar by Edgar Allan Poe

·        Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe

 

 

Author Biographies

·        John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley, Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Emerson

·        Susanna Rowson

·        Black Hawk

·        Edgar Allan Poe

·        Margaret Fuller

·        Nathaniel Hawthorne

·        Walt Whitman

·        Elizabeth Stoddard

·        Frederick Douglass

·        Harriet Beecher Stowe