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English 519.01E, Spring 2019 American Literature in Transition

Dr. Karen Roggenkamp [email protected] Office: 315 HL Office Hours:

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Course English 519 is a survey of late nineteenth-century and (very) early twentieth-century Description American literature, with a focus on “the real thing,” a term that defined the era. Throughout the semester, as we focus on prose fiction, we will work at defining precisely how authors of this era understood and represented “reality,” how they pushed open the boundaries circumscribing genteel literary culture, how they played with the boundaries between fact and fiction, and how they defined and re-defined race, class, gender, and ethnicity. Student Students will demonstrate knowledge of key terms and concepts from late nineteenth Learning century American literature, as measured by a pretest and post test. Outcomes Required The following works are required for this course. In addition, you will have some Texts readings that you will either download from D2L or from internet websites (details provided in schedule of assignments). In general, you may use any edition of the books you like. The ISBNs listed correspond with the editions ordered through the bookstore. Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (ISBN 9780312194062) Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (ISBN 9781554810277) William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (ISBN 9780140439236) Frank Norris, McTeague (ISBN 9780451531971) Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins (ISBN 9780199554713) Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth (ISBN 9780143106821) Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (ISBN 9780140187298)

Article Presentation Conference paper presentation Grading Final paper Breakdown Class participation and discussion Total100% Writing Assignments Technology This course will be supplemented using D2L, the Learning Management System used Requirements by TAMU-Commerce. We will be using the Dropbox for paper submission, and some of your readings will be available there for download. I will also maintain my gradebook there. To access course materials, go to the D2L App under your myLeo account. You will need your CWID and password to log in to the course. If you do not know your CWID or have forgotten your password, contact Technology Services at 903-468-6000 [email protected]. To access D2L, you will need a computer with internet access (high speed recommended, not dial-up), and a word processor equipped with Microsoft Word. Our campus is optimized to work in a Microsoft Windows environment. This mean our courses work best if you are using a Windows operating system (XP or newer) and a recent version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (6.0, 7.0, 8.0). Your courses will also work with Macintosh OS x along with a recent version of Safari 2.0 or better. Along with Internet Explorer and Safari, D2L also supports the Firefox browser and Google Chrome on both Windows and Mac operating systems. Attendance Your attendance in class is crucial. According to the TAMU-Commerce student handbook, “students are expected to be preset for all class meetings of any course for which they are enrolled. I will keep attendance, and you can expect your grade to be docked for unexcused absences. By departmental policy, students are permitted to make up work for excused absences, examples of which may include participation in a required or authorized university activity, or death in the immediate family. If you know that you are going to be absent for any authorized reason, please make arrangements with me in advance. Additional You are responsible for reading and understanding all the items included on this Policies syllabus and on additional materials you receive from me over the course of the term. The Department of Literature and Languages will not tolerate plagiarism or any other form of academic dishonesty. Instructors uphold and support the highest academic standards, and students are expected to do likewise. Penalties for students who are found guilty of academic dishonesty include failure of the assignment and/or course, disciplinary probation, suspension, or expulsion. Refer to the Texas A&M University-Commerce Code of Student Conduct 13.99.99.R0.10 for details: (http://www.tamuc.edu/aboutUs/policiesProceduresStandardsStatements/rulesProced ures/13students/graduate/13.99.99.R0.10GraduateStudentAcademicDishonesty.pdf. Examples of plagiarism include but are not restricted to: turning in an essay written entirely by someone else; copying any portion of someone else’s words and presenting those words as your own (e.g. without quotation or citation); copying paragraphs, sentences, or parts of sentences from another source; using the same ideas that you have found in another writer’s essay and presenting those ideas as your own; using someone else’s basic sentences but changing just a few words (again, without quotation or citation). If you are not clear about how to avoid any of these acts, it is us to you to clarify. Unintentional plagiarism is still plagiarism, and I expect all students to understand what constitutes an act of academic dishonesty. 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For a list of locations, please refer to http://www.tamuc.edu/aboutUs/policiesProceduresStandardsStatements/rulesProce dures/34SafetyOfEmployeesAndStudents/34.06.02.R1.pdfand/or consult your event organizer. Pursuant to PC 46.035, the open carrying of handguns is prohibited on all A&M-Commerce campuses. Report violations to the University Police Department at 903-886-5868 or 9-1-1. Students who have concerns regarding their courses should first address those concerns with the assigned instructor in order to reach a resolution. Students who are unsatisfied with the outcome of that conversation or have not been able to meet individually with their instructor, whether in-person, by email, by telephone, or by another communication medium, should then schedule an appointment with the Department Head or Assistant Department Head by completing a Student Grievance Form (available in the main office, HL 141). In the event that the instructor is the Department Head, the student should schedule a meeting with the Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities after following the steps outlined above; if the instructor is the Assistant Department Head, students should schedule a meeting with the Department Head. Where applicable, students should also consult University Procedure 13.99.99.R0.05 (“Student Appeal of Instructor Evaluation”). You are responsible for reading and understanding all the information on this syllabus, as well as on any additional materials I distribute during the course. Assignments (schedule subject to small changes) Week 1 Introduction to Course: American Literature in Transition 2/5 Week 2 Read “What is Realism?” (download from D2L Week 2 Readings) 2/12 Read selection from David Shi, Facing Facts, part 1(download from D2L Week 2 Readings) Read excerpt from Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 1989). (download from D2L Week 2 Readings) Selections from William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, William Roscoe Thayer (download from D2L Week 1 Readings) Read Henry James, “The Real Thing”(1892) (download from D2L Week 2 Readings) ARTICLE ON LITERARY MARKETPLACE Week 3 Read Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New-England Nun” (1891) and “The Revolt of 2/19 ‘Mother’” (1890) (download from D2L Week 3 Readings) Read Kate Chopin, “The Storm” (1898) and excerpt from “Masculine Literature” (download from D2L Week 3 Readings) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, An Old Maid’s Paradise (1891) (D2L Week 3 Readings) ARTICLE Week 4 Read “The New Woman” (download from D2L Week 4 Readings) 2/26 Read Elizabeth Jordan, “The Happiest Woman in New York” (New York World, December 19, 1890) and “In the Case of Hannah Risser” (1902) (download from D2L Week 4 Readings) Read Karen Roggenkamp, “Elizabeth Jordan, ‘True Stories of the News,’ and Newspaper Fiction in Late Nineteenth-Century American Journalism,” in Literature and Journalism: Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert, ed. Mark Canada (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 119-141. (download from D2L Week 4 Readings) Read Elizabeth Jordan, from Tales of the City Room (1894) (download from D2L Week 4 Readings) o “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment” o “In the Case of Helen Brandow” (from May Iverson’s Career, 1913)

 “A Romance of the City Room”  o “Miss Van Dyke’s Best Story”

ADD NEW WOMAN CHAPTER FROM June Howard

Week 5 Read William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1885) 2/13 article (download from D2L Week 5 Readings)

Week 6 Read Frank Norris, McTeague(1899) 3/4 Read Maria F. Brandt, “‘For His Own Satisfaction’: Eliminating the New Woman Figure in McTeague” ATQ18, no. 1(2004): 5-23. (download from D2L Week 6 Readings) Week 7 Read Ida B. Wells, The Light of Truth, pages 42-45, 57-75, 240-247, and 339-393 3/18 Read Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jube Benson” (1904) (download from D2L Week 7 Readings) Read Jean Marie Lutes, “Lynching Coverage and the American Reporter- Novelist,” American Literary History 19, no. 2 (2007): 456-481. (download from D2L Week 7 Readings)

Read “The Ghost Dance Songs and the Wounded Knee Massacre.” (download from D2L Week 7 Readings)

Week 8 Read Mark Twain, “Those Extraordinary Twins” and The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead 3/25 Wilson (1894) Read Eric J. Sundquist, “Mark Twain and Homer Plessy,” Representations 24 (1988): 102-128. (download from D2L Week 8 Readings) Week 9 Read Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition(1901) 4/1 Read Joyce Pettis, “The Literary Imagination and the Historic Event: Chesnutt's Use of History in The Marrow of Tradition,” South Atlantic Review 55, no. 4 (1990): 37-48. (download from D2L Week 9 Readings) Week 10 Read Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance(1910)(read entire book) 4/8 Read Edith Eaton-Sui Sin Far “The Success of a Mistake” (download from D2L Week 10 Readings) Read Jean Marie Lutes, “The Queer Newspaperwoman in Edith Eaton’s ‘The Success of a Mistake,’” Legacy 29, no. 2 (2012): 280-299. (download from D2L Week 10 Readings) Week 11 4/15 Read Edith Wharton, House of Mirth (1905) ARTICLE: (download from D2L Week 11 Readings)

Week 12 Conference Paper Presentations 4/22 Week 13 Conference Paper Presentations 4/29 FINAL PAPERS DUE MAY , BY 11:59 P.M. IN WEEK 15 DROPBOX