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
·
The
Declaration of Independence
·
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
·
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
Author Biographies
·
John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Thomas Paine, Thomas
Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley, Charles Brockden Brown,
Ralph Emerson