| Week | Date | Revised Schedule (15 April 2009) -- (P) In Parini -- (N) In Norton
Anthology |
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| 1 | Jan 21 | Introduction: Course overview -- authors, types, theories |
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| 2 | 28 | 17th century: spiritual autobiography,
Edwards, Personal Narrative PN |
Rowlandson, Captivity narrative (P)N |
Ashbridge P N3 |
Shepard, Autobiography
| Sincere Convert (link removed)
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| 3 | Feb 4 | 18th century: Vol 1 |
Vol 2
Equiano, Interesting Narrative (N) | Vincent Caretta |
Crevecoeur N |
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| 4 | 11 |
Franklin, Autobiography Norton Critical edition (P)N |
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| 5 | 18 | 19th Century Slave Narratives:
1. Frederick Douglass:
Narrative of the Life (1845) (N) |
My Bondage and My Freedom (P) |
My Life and Times || 2. Harriet Jacobs:
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (ed. L. M. Child) |
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| 6 | 25 | Transcendentalism: Thoreau, Walden (N), Civil Disobedience (N) |
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| 7 | Mar 4 | Thoreau, continued |
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| 8 | 11 |
Whitman, Song of Myself (1882) (N) |
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| - | 18 | SPRING BREAK |
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| 9 | 25 |
Whitman, cont.
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| 10 | Apr 1 |
Approaches to term paper proposals: Research suggestions |
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| 11 | 8
| 19th Century Author Reports Options
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| 12 | 15 |
20th Century Author Reports: I | Term Paper Proposals drafts Apr 15,
proposals by email Apr 20 | Hints |
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| 13 | 22 |
20th Century Author Reports: II |
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| 14 | 29 |
Term papers on Blackboard Apr 27: Discussions Apr 29 |
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| | May6 |
Take Home Final Exam due: |
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