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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