ANTI-BOURGEOIS VISIONS: EMERSON, MELVILLE, & IRVING

Class 2: Sept 16

Overviews of American Romantic Period (handout )
Emerson--"The American Scholar" and excerpts from "Nature,"  "The Oversoul," & Journal (handout) 
Melville--"Bartleby, the Scrivener" (handout)
Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (e-text)

Class 3: Sept 23

Poe--"Music," "The Veil of the Soul," "To Helen," "Annabel Lee," "The Poetic Principle,"  "The Oval Portrait" (handout), "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," & "The Black Cat"

CHOOSE AUTHOR/TEXT FOR PAPER

Class 5: Oct 7

Stowe--Uncle Tom's Cabin: Editor's Intro. (read after)          

AMERICAN ECSTASY AND EMPATHY, OR, SINGINT TH BODY ELECTRIC: WALT WHITMAN

Class 6: Oct 14

 "Song of Myself"

Class 7: Oct 21

 "In Paths Untrodden" (84), "Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand" (85), "For You O Democracy" (87), "Trickle Drops" (92), "City of Orgies" (92), "I Hear it was Charged against Me" (94),  "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me" (95), "A Glimpse" (96), "I Dream'd in a Dream" (96), "Among the Multitude," (98) & "The Wound-Dresser" (220)

THE NOBLE SAVAGE, OR, THE RETREAT INTO NATUREe 

Class 8: Oct 28

Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (skip/skim 136-165m, 212-266m, 299-326)
Film version of Last

Class 9: Nov 4

REPORTS
Melville, Typee

IMMENSITY WITHIN: EMILY DICKINSONn

Class 10: Nov 18

REPORTS

Dickinson--Letters (handout)

Dickinson--Poems (handout)

# 61, 67, 125, 130, 985
# 315, 338, 1545
# 214, 986
# 288, 435, 593, 632, 1129
# 187, 211, 303, 520, 732
# 241, 258, 280, 341, 465, 547

Class 11: Nov 25

REPORTS
Moby-Dick: i-xv and Chapters 1-22, 26-32, 35-39, 41-42, 44, 46-52, 55, 58-61

Class 12: Dec 2

REPORTS

SUBMIT HARD COPY AND DISK/EMAIL COPY OF PAPER
 

Moby-Dick: Chapters 66, 76-79, 81-83, 86-87, 91-96,  99-100, 104, 106-119, 124-epilogue