English 3380: Survey of American Literature I

ENGLISH 3380: SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I “Revolution and the Written Word” Section 2, Fall 2010: COB 214, 9:25-10:40, Tuesdays and Thursdays Course Webpage: http://www.uccs.edu/~faculty/lginsber/english338/index.html Dr. Lesley Ginsberg Office: 1007 Columbine Hall E-Mail: [email protected] Office Phone: 255-4004 Mailbox: 1042 Columbine Hall Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm, and by appointment.

Schedule of In-Class Presentations on a Secondary Source:

Week Four Puritan Revolution and the Woman Writer Tues., 14 Sept. Anne Bradstreet (A 187-88), “The Flesh and the Spirit,” “The Author to Her Book” (A 202-05), “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House…” (A 212-13); SKIM The New-England Primer (A 353-56). *Secondary Source: Reid, Bethany. “‘Unfit for Light’: Anne Bradstreet’s Monstrous Birth.” New England Quarterly 71:4 (Dec. 1998): 517-42. Web. Dana Reynolds, Isabella Dow.

Week Five Natives, Witches, and Revolution Tues., 21 Sept. Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative… (A 256-67); Read Sherman Alexie, “Captivity,” On-Line. *Secondary Source: Lepore, Jill. The Name of War. New York: Knopf, 1998. ix-xv, 125-36. Book On Reserve. Steven Ross, Amber Mello, Andrew Dyer.

Week Six Revolution and Patriarchal Authority Thurs., 30 Sept. Finish Franklin, The Autobiography (A 491-518, 522-34). John and Abigail Adams, J. Sullivan, “Letters 1776” (one page, HANDOUT attached to syllabus). *Secondary Source: Looby, Christopher. “‘The Affairs of the Revolution….’” American Quarterly 38:1 (Spring 1986): 72-96. Web. Angela Loomis, Mark Wilkerson, Mandy Gardner.

Week Eight Romantic Revolution Tues., 12 Oct. Contexts: Skim Norton B 929-950; Read Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (B 951-85). *Secondary Source: Bedell, Rebecca. “John Quidor and the Demonic Imagination: Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman (c 1828).” Yale Journal of Criticism 11: 1 (Spring1998): 111-18. Web. Michael Rieck, Elizabeth Reed. Thurs., 14 Oct. **Extra Credit** Attend a performance of “Ben Franklin’s Tea Party,” UCCS Theatreworks. See web. Free.

Week Ten Revolutionary Words: Slavery Thurs., 28 Oct. Finish Douglass, Narrative of the Life… (B 2094-2129). *Secondary Source: Carson, Sharon. “Shaking the Foundation….” Religion and Literature 24.2 (Summer 1992): 19-34. Web. Elizabeth Raitz, Michelle Matte.

Week Eleven Gothic Revolution Tues., 2 Nov. Edgar Allan Poe (B 1528-32), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (B 1543- 65). * Secondary Source: Peeples, Scott. “Poe’s ‘Constructiveness’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 178-90. Book On Reserve. Shannon Altmeyer, Megan Ogilvie.

Thurs., 4 Nov. Edgar Allan Poe. “The Purloined Letter” (B 1599-1611). * Secondary Source: Medoro, Dana. “‘So Very Self Evident….’” Literature and Medicine 26.2 (Fall 2007): 342-63. Web. Shandi Gross, Autumn Kruis, Amanda Oppenheim.

Week Twelve Revolutionary Fiction and the Antebellum Reader Thurs., 11 Nov. Finish Melville, “Benito Cereno” (B 2430-61). * Secondary Source: Richards, Jason. “Melville’s (Inter)national Burlesque: Whiteface, Blackface, and ‘Benito Cereno.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 21.2 (June 2007): 73-94. Web. Quiz 4. Jonathan Reynolds, Kristin Garst.

Week Thirteen Narrative Revolution Thurs., 18 Nov. Continue Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (B 1405-50). * Secondary Source: Doyle, Lara. “‘A’ for Atlantic: the Colonizing Force of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.” American Literature 79.2 (June 2007): 243-73. Web. Focus on pp251-end. Quiz 5. Jenna Mitchell, Laura Harding.