Required texts (at both Rutgers Bradley and New Jersey Books stores): Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (1905) -- Penguin Classics ISBN-978-0-14-018729-8 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) -- (Scribner)ISBN-13-078-0-742-7356 Ernest Hemingway,The Sun Also Rises (1926) -- (Scribner)ISBN-13-978-0-7432-9733-8 Richard Wright, Native Son (1940) (unabridged version 1991, Harper Perennial Classics Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)-- (Vintage) ISBN-13: 978-0-679-73276-1

Fall 2009 Course Schedule: (December 2, 2009; subject to change)
Week 1	Sept 2	4 P	Introduction | Day 1 | Paper 1: Jack London, "Law of Life"
Week 2	9	11	Wharton, House of Mirth | E-text
Week 3	16 P	18	Wharton, House of Mirth | Images | 9/16: Paper 2: Selected Passage
Week 4	23	25 Q	Wharton, contunued: 9/25: Quiz
Week 5	30	Oct 2	F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1&2)
Week 6	7 P	(9)	Oct 7: Paper 3 | Gatsby (3) | Oct 9: no class
Week 7	14 E	16	0ct 14: Mid-term exam : Oct 16: Gatsby (4)
Week 8	21	23	Ernest Hemingway,The Sun Also Rises
Week 9	28	30 P	Ernest Hemingway,The Sun Also Rises | Oct. 30: Paper 4
Week 10	Nov 4	6	Richard Wright, Native Son
Week 11	11	13 Q	Richard Wright, Native Son Quiz: TBA
Week 12	18	20	Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (no class 11/25)
Week 13	Dec 2	4 P	Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man Dec 4: Paper 5
Week 14	9 P	11	Dec 9: Paper 5, cont.; Dec 11: Course review
Final		18	Final exam: Friday, Dec, 18, 8:30-11:30am