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Below find a listing of the work that we'll be covering in the class this semester

First Day

Puritans
Religion as Literature: Bradford, Morton, Winthrop
Prophecy as Literature: Bradstreet and Wigglesworth
Captivity Narrative: Rowlandson
Puritan Poetry: Bradstreet and Taylor

Rationality and Nationalism
The Brain: Franklin
Puritanism Redux: Wheatley and Edwards
Irving

Transcendentalism
Emerson
Thoreau
The American Bard: Whitman
The American Bard: Dickinson

Slave Narrative
Harriet Jacob

Fiction, Glorious Fiction
Mr. Gothic: Hawthorne
Wealth and Morality: Melville
Mr. Gothic: Poe


 © 2009 David Bordelon
Revised 6 September 2016