352:512 American Literature to 1900

Spring 1998, Rutgers University, Newark, Thursdays 5:30-8:10 pm
Prof. Heyward Ehrlich, Office: 521 Hill, x 5160
Effective January 29, the class will meet in Hill 617

1. Email and Web addresses:

Class email list:	amerlit@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Class Web page:	http://newark.rutgers.edu/~ehrlich/512
NEW 512 Discussion thread:	http://tecn.rutgers.edu/lit512
OLD 512 Discussion thread:	http://tecn.rutgers.edu/ehrlich
English Discussion thread (New):	http://tecn.rutgers.edu/english
512 class members:	Class seating plan
512 Bibliography	512bib.html
Term paper ideas	512paper.html
Take Home final	512fin2.html

2. Recommended texts:

Poe: Fall of the House of Usher & Other Tales (ed. Galloway, Penguin).
Emerson: Representative Selections (ed. Whicher, Houghton Mifflin)
Hawthorne: Tales (ed. Collacurcio, Penguin)

Scarlet Letter (Bedford critical ed.)
Blithedale Romance (Bedford critical ed.)
Thoreau: Walden (Norton critical ed.)
Melville: Billy Budd & Other Tales (Penguin)
Pierre (Penguin)
Whitman: TBA
Dickinson: TBA

Class schedule:

Week 1:	Introduction
Week 2-3:	Poe: Assignments and Bibliography
Week 4-5:	Emerson Assignments and Bibliography
Week 6-7:	Hawthorne Assignments and Bibliography
Week 8-9:	Thoreau Assignments and Bibliography
Week 10-11:	Melville Assignments and Bibliography
Week 12-13:	Whitman Suggestions
Week 14:	Dickinson

3. Alternate editions:

Norton anthology (Vol I): useful for short works, background
Poe: Representative Selections (Houghton Mifflin, ed Davison)
Emerson: Portable (Viking)
Hawthorne: SL and BR (Norton critical eds.)
Melville: P (Northwestern-Newberry and Harper Collins eds.)
Most 512 authors (Library of America paperback eds.)
For most of these authors, other critical eds., collections, and handbooks

4. Major texts to be omitted (for your information only)

Poe: Eureka, Arthur Gordon Pym
Hawthorne: House of the Seven Gables, The Marble Faun
Melville: Moby-Dick

Last revised 2/15/98