English 244 / 101

Welcome to this class. We have an exciting array of reading from Early American Literature that touch on the issues of ace, Gender, Colonialism and Religion. Just check the weekly reading lists and the Assignments page, and you can follow this class easily.

Weekly Readings

Week 1:

Reading: Overview, introduction. Iroquois Creation Story, Native American Eloquence, Trickster Tales. Oratory

Week 2:

Reading: Anne Bradstreet, William Bradford, Mary Rowland

Week 3:

Reading: Franklin, Jefferson, Edwards

Week 4:

Reading: Introduction to American Literature 1820-1865, Equiano, Wheatley

Week 5:

Reading: Mather, Edwards, Kemble Knight

Week 6:

Reading: Overview, Hawthorn, Poe, Whitman

Week 7:

Reading: Lincoln, Slavery, Race and the Making of American Literature, Jacobs, Douglas

Week 8:

Reading: Thoreau, Fuller, Emerson

Week 9:

Reading: Melville, Harper

Week 10:

Reading: Dickinson