WEEK THIRTEEN	Mon: Huck Finn in Its Times I Wed: Huck Finn in Its Times II
WEEK TWELVE	Mon: Ben-Hur at the Movies Wed: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
WEEK ELEVEN	Ben-Hur Mon: Through Book Fifth Wed: Finish, & Scenes from the Play
WEEK TEN	The Wide, Wide World Mon: Selected Contemporary Responses Wed: Selected 20th-Century Commentary (handout)
WEEK NINE	Mon: The last of The Last of the Mohicans Wed: The Wide, Wide World
WEEK EIGHT	The Last of the Mohicans Wed: Picturing Mohicans and Contemporary Reviews (hand out)
WEEK SEVEN	Charlotte Temple Monday, March 8: FIRST ESSAY DUE Wed: SELECTED ESSAYS
WEEK SIX	Mon: Moby-Dick & the Canon SELECTED ESSAYS Wed: Moby-Dick OUR QUESTS & QUESTIONS
WEEK FIVE	Mon: Uncle Tom & the Canon SELECTED ESSAYS, 1890s - 1990s Wed: Uncle Tom & Popular Performance-- Read "White Readers & Black Slaves" (handout)
WEEK FOUR	Mon: Uncle Tom as Cultural Event I MATERIAL FROM THE 1850s Wed: Uncle Tom as Cultural Event II-- MATERIAL FROM 1860s - 20th CENTURY
WEEK THREE	Mon: Moby-Dick, Chaps. 73-end Wed: Uncle Tom's Cabin & Moby-Dick-- CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
WEEK TWO	Mon: no class Wed: Moby-Dick, Chaps. 1-72
WEEK ONE	Mon: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chaps. 1-28 Wed: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chaps. 29-end

"Let America, then, prize and cherish her writers; yea, let her glorify them. . . . the books of Hawthorne . . . should be sold by the hundred thousand; and read by the million."                           -- Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) "Besides, at the bottom of their natures, men like Hawthorne . . . deem the plaudits of the public such strong presumptive evidence of mediocrity in the object of them, that it would in some degree render them doubtful of their own powers did they hear much and vociferous braying concerning them in the public pastures."                           -- Herman Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)