English 2327
Fall, 2007
Michael S. Seiferth


The Order of the Readings and Assignments

ON LINE STUDENTS: Welcome to English 2327, Early American Literature. We shall be meeting online one evening a week for the tutorial. The tutorials will be around three hours in length.

ON CAMPUS STUDENTS: Welcome to English 2327, Early American Literature. We shall be meeting daily, four times a week for the tutorial/discussions.

For your information, all of your assignments may be found online along with the "reserve readings"; the URL follows. You will be particularly interested in Assignments and Course Documents.

http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/eng2327mainpage.html
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First Meeting: Introduction to the Course (Backgrounds and Native American Literature)

 

Second Meeting "American Literature Part I"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/amlit1.html
Anpao, pp. 13-102; 239-252.

Third Meeting: Anpao, 102-235.
"The Epic as Cosmopoesis" (Louise Cowan)
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/epiccosmos.html

Fourth Meeting: First Assignment Due
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/firstc.html

Your first writing assignment for this book will ask you to discuss your favorite
chapters in terms of answering the questions, "What is familiar about this story
(chapter) especially as it relates to what I know in my own culture?" "What is
so thoroughly unfamiliar about this story (chapter) in terms of my own
culture?"

"The Renaissance"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/renaissance.html

Fifth Meeting: Envisioning America, "Introduction" and First Two Chapters
Heath Anthology, John Smith, pp.184-194.
Prepare for First Major Paper, The Epic Hero
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/hero1.html
(Discussion of the Writing Requirements)

Sixth Meeting Introduction to the Puritans
Heath Anthology: Morton,211-223; Winthrop, 223-245.
Review "The Theological Review" in "American Literature, Part One"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/amlit1.html

Seventh Meeting: First Major Essay, Due.
Heath Anthology: Bradford, pp. 243-266; Williams, 267-289
(Prepare for the Calvin Quiz)
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/secondc.html
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/Calvin.html

Eight Meeting: Calvin Quiz Due

Heath Anthology: Bradford, pp. 243-266; Williams, 267-289


Ninth Meeting : Heath Anthology, Bradstreet, pp. 289-315; Wigglesworth, pp. 315-328;

John Cotton, pp. 329-336 (Bay Psalm Book); 337-340. Edward Taylor, pp. 366-407.

Prepare for Mid-Term Essay

 

Tenth Meeting: Mid-Term Examination Due
"American Literature, Part Two"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/amlit2.html
from Benjamin Franklin, pp. 812-819; from Thomas Paine, pp. 896-902; from Thomas Jefferson, pp. 919-940.

Eleventh Meeting "Unitarianism and Transcendentalism"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/unitarian.html
Heath Anthology, Emerson, pp. 1582-1646.
Deism Paper Discussed
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/existence.html

Twelth Meeting: Deism Paper Due
The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 1-12
Sewall, "The Tragic Form"
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/tragicform.html

Thirteenth Meeting
The Scarlet Letter, Chapters 13-24
The Scarlet Letter (Richard Sewall)
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/scarletletter.html

Fourteenth Meeting: Moby-Dick, Chapters 1-68
Moby-Dick (Richard Sewall)
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/moby.html

Moby-Dick, Chapters 69-135 and Epilogue.

Fifteenth Meeting: Final Paper Due
http://lonestar.texas.net/~mseifert/final.html

 

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