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Class 1: June 25        

Course Introduction: What is (American) Romanticism?
Film: M. Mann/D.D.Lewis Last of the Mohicans

Coordination of Oral Reports

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IMMENSITY WITHIN: DICKINSON

Class 2: June 30

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

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POE'S GOTHIC INTERIORITY

Class 3: July 2

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

GENERAL TIPS FOR GETTING ESSAY IDEAS

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Class 4: July 7

Poe: "The Purloined Letter," "Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "Manuscript Found in a Bottle," & Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
 

Ponder the Dickinson and Poe readings or the Last of the Mohicans film and select a tentative paper topic. Email me the general topic before the next class meets.  See general tips above.  More specific instructions--about number of sources, format, and so on--will be provided down-the-road.

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ANTI-BOURGEOIS VISIONS: EMERSON,  MELVILLE, & IRVING

Class 5: July 9

Emerson: "The American Scholar" (e-text) and excerpts from "Nature" (e-text), "The Oversoul" (e-text), &  Journal (e-text)
Melville: "Bartleby, the Scrivener"  (in the Dover edition)
Irving: "Rip Van Winkle" (e-text)
 

ORAL REPORTS ON EMERSON (IF CLASS SIZE REQUIRES)

Email of general, tentative paper topic due before class meets.

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RE-THINKING GENDER & SOCIAL RELATIONS: HAWTHORNE

Class 6: July 14

Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance and Norton edition materials: N. Hawthorne Letters & Journals, 231-240; Howe essay, 288-96; Baym essay, 351-67; Crews essay, 373-379)

ORAL REPORTS ON HAWTHORNE

Paragraph-long email of paper focus due.

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THE NOBLE SAVAGE, OR, THE RETREAT INTO NATURE 

Class 7: July 16

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

ORAL REPORTS ON COOPER
 

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AMERICAN ECSTASY & EMPATHY, OR, SINGING THE BODY ELECTRIC: WHITMAN

Class 8: July 21

Whitman:  "Song of Myself" and "A Backward Glass..." (prose)
Criticism: 845-889  850-863

ORAL REPORTS ON WHITMAN

Review of paper writing/research/theory

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Class 9: July 23

Whitman: Calamus poems--"In Paths Untrodden," "Whoever You are Holding Me Now in Hand," "For You O Democracy," "Trickle Drops," "City of Orgies," "I Hear it was Charged against Me," "Here the Frailest Leaves of Me," "A Glimpse," "I Dream'd in a Dream," "Among the Multitude"

"The Wound-Dresser" and "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life"
 

Draft of essay due, via email attachment.

Class 10: July 28

Melville: Typee and background materials/criticism in Sanborn edition (Bingham, Chappell, Thomas, Parker, Stewart, and Calder)

ORAL REPORTS ON MELVILLE

Class 11: July 30      

Melville: Benito Cereno (in Dover edition)

ORAL REPORTS ON MELVILLE

THE WHALE

Class 12: Aug 4

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

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Class 13: Aug 6

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

Wrap up

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 Submit email attachment of research essay by 11:00 pm Saturday Aug. 9