:: craig ::

raymond craig
associate professor
department of english

eng 6/76101 :: literature of the united states to 1865
"american renaissance literature in the context of slavery"
course schedule

week\topics	seminar topic	reading assignments	research & writing assignments
1 Aug. 31	Introduction; Course Overview; Research Overview		T = Due Tuesday R = Due Thursday
2 Sept. 7	Prelude: Slavery	Reading in Abolitionist and Proslavery Documents	Collaborative Taxonomies
3 Sept. 14	Prelude: Slavery	Reading in Abolitionist and Proslavery Documents	Collaborative Taxonomies; Position Papers
4 Sept. 21	Slavery in Fiction: Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Collaborative Application of Taxonomies
5 Sept. 28	Slavery in Fiction: Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin	Proposals
6 Oct. 5	Counterpoint: Blake's Delany	Delany	Motif Essays
7 Oct. 12	Emerson	Nature, Selected Essays	Critical Summaries
8 Oct. 19	Emerson & Slavery	Representative Men; Slavery Essays	Critical Summaries
9 Oct. 26	Thoreau	Walden	Annotated Bibliographies; Critical Summaries
10 Nov. 2	Thoreau & Slavery	Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts	Critical Summaries
11 Nov. 9	Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter	Critical Summaries
12 Nov. 16	Hawthorne & Slavery	The Scarlet Letter, Life of Franklin Pierce	Critical Summaries
13 Nov. 23	[Thanksgiving: no seminar meeting on 11.23]		Prospectus/Paper Drafts
14 Nov. 30	Melville	Bartelby, Billy Budd	Critical Summaries
15 Dec. 7	Melville & Slavery	Benito Cereno	Critical Summaries
F Thursday Dec 14	5.45-8.00 pm	[we will meet for the final exam period]	Final Paper Due