DETAIL: Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara Falls

TEXTS Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bedford) Douglass, Narrative of the Life (Harvard Library) Longfellow, Selected Poems (Penguin) Emerson, Selected Writings (Signet) Poe, Fall of the House of Usher & Other Writings (Penguin) Thoreau, Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin) Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Penguin) Melville, Moby-Dick (Penguin) Whitman, Leaves of Grass, First Edition (Penguin) Dickinson, Final Harvest (Back Bay Books)                 ELECTRONIC RESOURCES                 COURSE REQUIREMENTS

CALENDAR OF READINGS WEDNESDAY 1/20 – Introduction DISCUSSION – Play the Game,         & then Powers' "Greek Slave"     1851 POSTER MONDAY 1/25 – Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin   (CHAPS 1-28) WEDNESDAY 1/27 – Uncle Tom's Cabin   (FINISH) DISCUSSION – Audio Video MONDAY 2/1 – Douglass' Narrative of the Life WEDNESDAY 2/3 – Douglass' Heroic Slave DISCUSSION – Douglass & Stowe MONDAY 2/8 – Longfellow's Evangeline         MAPPING EVANGELINE WEDNESDAY 2/10 – Longfellow         "The Wreck of the Hesperus"         "The Village Blacksmith"         "My Lost Youth"         "The Children's Hour"         "Hawthorne"         "The Cross of Snow"         & from Kavanagh DISCUSSION – Illustrating Evangeline MONDAY 2/15 – Emerson's Nature WEDNESDAY 2/17 – Emerson, "American Scholar" & "Divinity School Address" DISCUSSION – Emerson, "Self-Reliance" MONDAY 2/22 – Emerson, "Experience" & "Fate" WEDNESDAY 2/24 – Poe         "The Drake-Halleck Review" (excerpt)         "The Philosophy of Composition"         "The Imp of the Perverse"         "The Tell-Tale Heart"         "A Descent into the Maelstrom"         "The Pit and the Pendulum"         "The Black Cat" DISCUSSION – Poe on Poe MONDAY 3/1 – Poe         "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"         "The Purloined Letter"         "The Gold-Bug"         "William Wilson"         "The Fall of the House of Usher"         "Ligeia" WEDNESDAY 3/3 – Poe   MARCH 3: FIRST ESSAY DUE   |   ESSAY ADVICE   |   ESSAY CHECKLIST DISCUSSION – MONDAY 3/15 – Emerson, "The Transcendentalist" & "The Poet" WEDNESDAY 3/17 – Thoreau's Walden   (CHAPS 1-2) DISCUSSION –   TWO CABINS MONDAY 3/22 – Walden   (CHAPS 3-10) WEDNESDAY 3/24 – Walden   (FINISH) DISCUSSION – Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" MONDAY 3/29 – Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter   (CHAPS 1-20) WEDNESDAY 3/31 – Scarlet Letter   (FINISH) DISCUSSION – MONDAY 4/5 – Melville's Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 1-25) &           "Hawthorne and His Mosses"         Excerpts from Melville's Letters WEDNESDAY 4/7 – Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 26-42) DISCUSSION – Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 43-60) MONDAY 4/12 – Moby-Dick   (CHAPS 61-99)         Moby Speaks WEDNESDAY 4/14 – Moby-Dick   (FINISH) DISCUSSION – I said finish! MONDAY 4/19 – Whitman's "Song of Myself" WEDNESDAY 4/21 – Whitman's 1855 "Preface" DISCUSSION – WHITMAN LONGFELLOW WHITTIER HOLMES MONDAY 4/26 – Dickinson's Poetry (1)                                 E-DICKINSON WEDNESDAY 4/28 – Dickinson (2) DISCUSSION – APRIL 29: SECOND ESSAY DUE MONDAY 5/3 – "I stop somewhere..." TUESDAY 5/11 – FINAL EXAM