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HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Course Description American Autobiography Traces the Evolving Sense of Self, Commun HUMANITIES INSTITUTE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Course Description American Autobiography traces the evolving sense of self, community, and nationhood in a nation characterized by convergences and encounters, including geographical, cultural, psychological, and philosophical. About the Professor Robert F. Sayre is a professor emeritus of University of Iowa. An acknowledged and distinguished scholar, Dr. Sayre is widely published in the field of autobiography and memoirs, and his essays, articles, and anthologies have received positive reviews. © 2015 by Humanities Institute Contents Week 1 Introduction : On Reading and Writing Autobiography Week 2-3 Unit I - 17th Century American Autobiography : Explorers, Governors, Pilgrims and Captives Smith, John Bradstreet, Anne Rowlandson, Mary Sewall, Samuel Week 4-7 Unit II - 18th Century American Autobiography Early 18th Century : Great Awakening, New Individuals (1700-1775) Knight, Sarah Kemble Ashbridge, Elizabeth Edwards, Jonathan Cole, Nathan Woodmason, Charles Late 18th Century : National Identitities (1776-1837) Allen, Ethan Adams, Abigail and John Filson, John Osborn, Sarah and Jennings, Nathan B. Burroughs, Stephen Kirkland, Caroline Black Hawk Week 8-11 Unit III - 19th Century American Autobiography Early 19th Century : Self-Liberators (1836-1865) Lee, Jarena Emerson, Ralph Waldo Clarke, Lewis Fuller, Margaret Fern, Fanny Barnum, P. T. Lincoln, Abraham Sigourney, Lydia Late 19th Century : Survivors and Self-Teachers (1965-1915) Goss, Warren Lee Whitman, Walt Chesnut, Mary Boykin Grant, Ulysses S. Douglass, Frederick Larcom, Lucy Carnegie, Andrew Week 12-15 Unit IV - 20th Century American Autobiography Early 20th Century : Lives in Progress (1900-1935) London, Jack Bourne, Randolph Antin, Mary Muir, John Du Bois, W.E.B. Seidenberg, Roderick Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Mid 20th Century :Experimental Lives (1920-1960) Fitzgerald, F Scott Stein, Gertrude Agee, James Wright, Richard Day, Dorothy Nin, Anais Late 20th Century : Quests for Identity (1960-) Baldwin, James Ginsberg, Allen Momaday, N. Scott Kingston, Maxine Hong Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Berry, Wendell Richard Rodriguez Dillard, Anne bell hooks Course Papers Students will write critical analysis papers (1000 words) for each of the seven topics listed below. Unit 1 Religious Autobiography: Please read Anne Bradstreet’s poems. After you have completed the readings, conduct research on the topic of religious autobiography. Identify other religious autobiographies in this study guide. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. Unit 2 Self-made and businessmen’s Autobiography: Please read Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. After you have completed the readings, conduct research on the topic of businessmen and self-made men. Identify similar autobiographies in the writing guide. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. Unit 3 Transcendentalist Autobiography: Please read David Thoreau’s Walden. After you have completed the readings, conduct research on the topic of Transcendentalism and autobiographies that express Transcendentalist beliefs or worldviews. Identify similar autobiographies in the writing guide. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. War Autobiography: Please read Mary Boykin Chestnut’s autobiography. Conduct research on the topic of war autobiographies. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. Unit 4 Immigrant Autobiography: Please read Mary Antin’s autobiography. Conduct research on the topic of Immigrant autobiographies. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. Minority Autobiography : Please read Richard Wright’s autobiography. Conduct research on the topic of Afro-American autobiographies. Then, read them closely, with a view to comparing and contrasting them. As you do so, explain their similarities and dissimilarities with respect to themes, content, worldview, underlying beliefs and values, and writing style. Modern Autobiography: The modernist period was a time of radical change in politics and the arts. Please read Henry Adams’ autobiography. Do a research on the topic of modern autobiography. Look for other similar autobiographies in this study guide? Compare and contrast them. Explain the similarities and dissimilarities amongst them. Final Paper Students will write a final paper (5000 words) on one of the topics listed above. Optional Reading General Sayre, Robert F. ed., American Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing.(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994). Eakin, Paul John, ed., (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,1991 American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect). 17th Century:Explorers, Governors, Pilgrims and Captives(1607-1700) Smith, John A Description of New England (1616): An Online Electronic Text Edition http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=etas Bradstreet, Anne Poems http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/bradstreet/bradstreet.html Rowlandson, Mary Sewall, Samuel Diary of Samuel Sewall http://archive.org/stream/diaryofsamuelsew01sewaiala#page/n9/mode/2up Early 18th Century: Great Awakening, New Individuals (1700-1775) Knight, Sarah Kemble The private journal of a journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704 http://archive.org/stream/privatejournalof00knig#page/n5/mode/2up Ashbridge, Elizabeth Quaker Grey: Some Account of the Forepart of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge Written by her own hand many years ago http://archive.org/stream/someaccountoffor00ashbuoft#page/n9/mode/2up Edwards, Jonathan Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards http://archive.org/stream/selectedsermons01edwagoog#page/n6/mode/2up Cole, Nathan Royal Parks and Gardens of London http://archive.org/stream/royalparksgarden00cole#page/n7/mode/2up Woodmason, Charles “It Will Require Much Time to Model the Manners and Morals of these Wild Peoples” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6386/ Late 18th Century: National Identities (1776-1837) Allen, Ethan A Narrative of Col Ethan Allen’s Captivity: 1775 – 1778 http://archive.org/stream/cihm_22019#page/n5/mode/2up Adams, Abigail and John New Letters of Abigail Adams: 1788 – 1801 http://archive.org/stream/newlettersofabig002627mbp#page/n7/mode/2up Filson, John John Filson: The First Historian of Kentucky – His Life and Writings http://archive.org/stream/johnfilsonfirsth00durr#page/n7/mode/2up Osborn, Sarah and Jennings, Nathan B. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah Osborn, August 1796, in the 83rd year of her age http://archive.org/stream/memoirslifemrss01hopkgoog#page/n7/mode/2up Burroughs, Stephen Memoirs of the Notorious Stephen Burroughs http://archive.org/stream/memoirsofnotorio00burr#page/n7/mode/2up Kirkland, Caroline A New Home, or, Life in the Clearings http://archive.org/stream/newhomeorlifeint013464mbp#page/n5/mode/2up Black Hawk Autobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk http://archive.org/details/autobiographyofm07097gut Early 19th Century : Self-Liberators (1836-1865) Lee, Jarena Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm9716/@Generic__BookView Emerson, Ralph Waldo Essays and Poems Online http://www.emersoncentral.com/texts.htm Clarke, Lewis Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke,During a Captivity of More Than Twenty- Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of America. Dictated by Himself http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/clarke/clarke.html Fuller, Margaret Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. v.1 1852. Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044009687435;page=root;view=image; size=100;seq=6;num=v Fern, Fanny Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433076060734 Barnum, P. T. The Life of P.T. Barnum http://archive.org/details/lifeofptbarnum00barn Lincoln, Abraham Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14721 Sigourney, Lydia Letters to Young Ladies http://www.librarycompany.org/women/portraits/sigourney.htmn Late 19th Century: Survivors and Self-Teachers (1965-1915) Goss, Warren The Soldier’s Story of His Captivity at Andersonvile, Belle Isle Lee http://archive.org/details/soldiersstoryhi02gossgoog Whitman, Walt Complete Prose Works http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1472160 Chesnut, Mary Boykin A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/chesnut/menu.html Grant, Ulysses S. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4367 Douglass, Frederick Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/ Larcom, Lucy A New England Girlhood:
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