Lauter (Trinity College)
Texts
Required Texts: Paul Lauter, et. al.
Heath Anthology of American
Literature
Readings
Week #1
NATIVE AMERICAN/ THE SPANISH NEW
WORLD
"To the Reader," pp. xxxiii-xxxix, Native American
Traditions: pp. 3/7, 22-40, 59-60
The Spanish and the New World: pp. 7-10, 67-99
Columbus, The Virgin of Guadalupe, Cabeza de Vaca), 120-131
(Villagra),
52-55
(The Coming of
the Spanish and the Pueblo Revolt, Hopi), 431-440
(The Pueblo Revolt and the Spanish Reconquest)
Week #2
ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS/ PURITANS
English Settlements: pp. 10-21,146-159
(John Smith)
,
173-176 Richard Frethorne
);
210-221, 225-226
William Bradford
), 176-188
Thomas Morton
),
221-225 (William Bradford)
Puritanism: The Personal and the Public: 317-342 Mary
Rowlandson
);
188-190,204-210,
John Winthrop
Week #3
PURITANISM: INNER LIFE AND LITERARY
FORM
256-261, 272-277 Anne Bradstreet
), 199-203
John Winthrop, 308, 312,
342-346, 350-357, 360-363, 373-374
Edward Taylor
), 544-555
Jonathan Edwards
)
Week #4
EMERGING TENSIONS
Religious and Cultural Tensions: 448-469, 581-590
Elizabeth
Ashbridge
), 540-544, 555-566
Jonathan Edwards
, 590-592,
604-610
John Woolman
)
Social and Political Tensions Delgado
), 762-771
]Francisco Palou
, 751-756,
Aupaumut
), 728-735
Samson Occom
), 815-
819 Benjamin Franklin
),
641-646, 670-677 Women Poets Before the
Revolution)
Week #5
Reading Week:
pp. 447-472, 1179-1214
Week #6
ENLIGHTENMENT/ REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY
Enlightenment and Revolution: 776-783, 790-794, 823-867,
872-888
Benjamin Franklin
)
Versions of Revolutionary Ideology: 774-776, 56-59
Iroquois), 936-
937, 940-955 Paine
), 957-964,
969-974, 978-981, 990-994
Jefferson
), 1007-1018
Federalist
), 821-822
Franklin
)
Week#7
AMERICAN IDENTITIES AND MYTHOLOGIES
Who (What) Are Americans? 694-712 Equiano
), 712-715,
718, 720-725 Phillis Wheatley
), 685-694
Hall
), 890-899, 906-907
Crevecoeur
), 1952-1963
(Vallejo)
American Mythologies--Red & White: 1214-1216,
1299-1307 Cooper
), 1308-1322
Sedgwick
),
1451-1466 Copway
), 1760-1772
Boudinot
,
Seattle), 1772-1774, 1777-
1778
John Rollin Ridge
Week #8
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGIES--GENDER
1024-1026,1032-1039 Murray
), 1153-1163
Rowson
), 1238-1239,1248-1260
Irving
), 771-773 ("
La Llorna and the
Devil Woman")
Poe
:
1322-1325,1394-1395,1403-1406,1410-1411, 1391-1392,
1357-1362 ("Eleonora"), 1333-1357 ("Ligeia," " The Fall of the
House of
Usher"), 1325-1332 ("Ms. Found in a Bottle"); 2596-2613 "Uncle
Christopher's," Alice Cary
)
Week # 9
DECONSTRUCTING AMERICAN MYTHOLOGIES
1886-1890, Sarah Grimké
),
1893-1899
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton), 1908-1914
Sojourner Truth
, 1899-1906 Fanny
Fern
, 2614-2621 Elizabeth
Stoddard
), 2628-2637 (Harriet
Wilson), 1915-1923,1932-1933 Frances Harper
)
The Rising Conflict:
Douglass
: 1676-1704; Abolitionist
Writing: 1781-1791 David Walker
, 1792-1795 W. L.
Garrison
), 1813-1818 J. G.
Whittier
), 1825-1834
Angelina Grimké
), 1964-1981
H. D. Thoreau
)
Week #10
SLAVERY AND NARRATIVE
1637-1676,
Frederick Douglass
, 2307-2358 H. B. Stowe
), 1723-
1736,1742-1750 (
Harriet Jacobs
)
Week #11
NATURE/TRANSCENDENTALISM
Constructions of Nature: 2286-2297, 2304-2307 Caroline
Kirkland
), 1590-1595, 1598-1601
(
M.Fuller
),
1981-1991, 1998-2016 H. D. Thoreau
), 2895-2896, 2861-
2862 Dickinson
)
Versions of Transcendentalism: 1499-1528, 1467-1470
Emerson
), 1626-1630
Fuller
), 1991-1998,
2008-2016
H. D. Thoreau
Week #12
RESPONSES TO
TRANSCENDENTALISM--NARRATIVE
Hawthorne
: 2065-2082 ("My
Kinsman, Major Molineux"),
2082-2092 ("Young Goodman Brown"), 2112-2132 ("Rappaccini's
Daughter")
Herman Melville
:
2400-2464 ("Bartleby the Scrivener"; from
"The Encantadas", "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of
Maids")
Week #13
RESPONSES TO
TRANSCENDENTALISM--POETRY
Walt Whitman
, "Song on
Myself," 2709-2712, 2727-2778;
pp. 2788-2798, 2802-03, 2824-25;
Emily Dickinson
, selected
poems; Letters, pp. 2911-2914,
2904-2907, 2909-2910, 2920
Week #14
Other Poetic Traditions
2638-2644, 2663-2671 Aztec and Inuit
), 2671-2691
Songs and Ballads
),
2692-2697 Bryant
),
2702-2705, 2706-2707 Longfellow
)