Survey of American Literature

The course is a survey of American Literature from 1620 to the present. The course starts with readings from Native American Literature. Emphasis will be on the major American writers, the canon. In addition a novel is studied along with samples of the writings of the major writers..

Week	Topic
1	Registration
2	Sunday Jan. 28 : Introduction to American Literature Tuesday Jan. 30 : Iroquois Creation Story 21,  The Navajo Creation Story 25                                   Hajffner (The Emergence) 26 Thursday Feb. 1 : Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) From Letter to Luis de                              Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (February 15, 1493)                              35 From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the                               Fourth Voyage (July 7, 1503) 36
3	Sunday Feb 4 : Bartolome De Las Casas (1474-1566) The Very Brief                               Relation of the Devastation of the Indies 39 From                               Hispaniola 39 From The Coast of Pearls, Paria, and the                               Island of Trinidad 41 Tuesday Feb 6 :. Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca (c. 1490-1558) The                                 Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca H [Dedication)                                 44 [The Malhado Way of Life) 45 [Our Life among the                                 Avavares and Arbadaos) 47 [Pushing On) 48 [Customs                                  of That Region] 48 [The First Confrontation) 49 [The                                  Falling-Out with Our Countrymen] 50 Thursday Feb 8 : Native American Trickster Tales: From The Winnebago                                  Trickster Cycle (edited by Paul Radin) 105, Ikto                                  Conquers lya, the Eater (transcribed and edited by Ella C.                                  Deloria) 112 First Quiz
4	Sunday Feb. 11 : William Bradford and others. Mayflower Compact (1620) _LMS Tuesday Feb. 13 : John Smith (1580-I63I) The Fourth Book. [Smith's                                Farewell to Virginia) 93 From A Description of New                                England 93 From New England's Trials 96 Thursday Feb. 15 : William Bradford (1590-1657) 121 Of Plymouth                                  Plantation: Book I, From Chapter I [The English                                  Reformation] 122, Chapter IV. Showing the Reasons and                                  Causes or Their Removal 124, Chapter XII. Anno 1621                                   [The First Thanksgiving) 144, Chapter XXIII. Anno                                   1632 [Prosperity Weakens Community) 147
5	Sunday Feb.18 : Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672): The Flesh and the Spirit                                22, The Author to Her Book 225,   Tuesday Feb. 20: Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758): Sinners in the Hands                                   of an Angry God 430   Thursday Feb. 22 : Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): The Way to Wealth 457                                   The Autobiography 480-83 & 534-542    Second Quiz
6	Sunday Feb. 25: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Common Sense 641                                    Introduction 641 From Ill. Thoughts on the Present State                                    of American Affairs 641 Tuesday Feb. 27: Thomas Jefferson (I743-I826) 659: From The Declaration                                  of Independence 661 Thursday Mar. 1 : Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) The Interesting Narrative                                    of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the                                    African, Written by Himself 688 From Chapter I 688                                   Chapter II 690  First Response Paper Due at 7 P.M.
7	Sunday Mar. 4: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): Nature: Chapter I and II , & Self‐                             Reliance 269 Tuesday Mar. 6 : :  Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862): Walden  981-987 & 1023-1028   Thursday Mar. 8 Emily Dickinson (1830–1886): Selectins of her poems                                     1667-1669 Third Quiz
8	Sunday Mar. 11: Midterm Tuesday Mar. 13:  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864): Preface to The                               House of the Seven Gables 594-& Washington Irving (1783–1859): Rip                               Van Winkle 29 Thursday Mar. 15:  Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): The Tell-Tale Heart 691 &                               The Cask of Amontillado 714
9	Sunday Mar. 18: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: The Custom-House Tuesday Mar. 20: : The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 1-5 Thursday Mar. 22:  The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 6-10
10	Sunday Mar. 25: : The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 11-15 Tuesday Mar. 27: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 16-20 Thursday Mar. 29: The Scarlet Letter: Chapter 21-24   Fourth Quiz
11	Sunday Apr. 1: Walt Whitman (1819–1892): From “Song of Myself” 1330-                              1336 Tuesday Apr. 3:  Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Narrative of the Life of                                  Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by                                 Himself: Chapters 1. 2. 6, 7, 11 & Appendix   Thursday Apr. 5 : Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835–1910): The                                Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 121
12	Sunday Apr. 8 : Henry James (1843–1916): The Real Thing 460 Tuesday Apr. 10 : : Kate Chopin (1850–1904) : Desiree’s Baby & The Story                                  of an Hour 551-557 & Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): The                                   Yellow Wall-paper & Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wall-paper”?  792 Thursday Apr. 12: Jack London (1876–1916): To Build a Fire 1047 Second Response Paper is due at 7 P.M.
13	Sunday Apr. 15 : Eugene O'Neill  (1888-1953) : The Hairy Ape  LMS Tuesday Apr. 17 : Robert Frost (1874–1963): “The Road Not Taken” 241                                     William  Carlos Williams (1883–1963):  “The Red Wheelbarrow” 309                                      Langston Hughes (1902–1967): I, Too 872 Thursday Apr. 19 :  Marianne Moore (1887-1972) : “Marriage”. LMS                                T. S. Eliot (1888–1965): The Love Song of J. Alfred                                Prufrock 368  FIFTH Quiz
14	Sunday Apr. 22: William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” Tuesday Apr. 24: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” Thursday Apr 26: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Great Gatsby (2013                                      Movie)
15	Final Exam is on Saturday 19-08-1439at 1-3  P.M.