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Jan. 17 |
MLK Day |
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Jan. 24 |
Introduction; Lecture: Puritan Theology; Week's Topic: Migration
and the Jeremiad
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IC: Notebook Definitions; Seminar Task |
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Jan. 31 |
Migration & Jeremiad: Sermon Literature |
Thomas Hooker, "The Danger of Desertion" (1631);
John Cotton, "God's Promise
to His Plantations" (1630);
Thomas
Hooker, "Spiritual Munition: A Funeral Sermon" (1626);
John
Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity" (1630);
Samuel
Danforth, "A Brief Recognition of New England's Errand into the Wilderness" (1670)
Read one of the following:
Phyllis
Jones, "'Puritan's Progress': The Story of the Soul's Salvation in Early New
England
Sermons," Early American Literature, 15 (1980), 14-28.
Charles
E. Hambrick-Stowe, Chapter 3 ("Puritan as Pilgrim") The Practice of Piety:
Puritan
Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England (Chapel Hill,
1982).
Sargent
Bush, Chapter 8 ("Preparation for Grace: A Tale of Adventure") in The
Writings
of Thomas Hooker: Spiritual Adventure in Two Worlds (Madison, 1980). |
Donald Weber, "Historicizing the Errand," American
Literary History, 2 (1990), 101-118.
Perry Miller, Errand
into the Wilderness, chapters
1 ("Errand into the
Wilderness" and 3 ("The Marrow of Puritan Divinity");
Sacvan Bercovitch, The
American Jeremiad, pp. 3-61;
David D. Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Days of
Judgment, "Introduction."
Lake, "Defining Puritanism--Again?." Puritanism. Bremer, ed. Boston:
Northeastern UP, 1993. 3-29.
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Tyler, from A History of American Literature, 1607-1783.
Spiller, Introductory materials from LHUS.
William Spengemann, "Review Essay." Early American Literature
16 (1981): 175-86.
William Spengemann, "Discovering the Literature of British
America." Early American Literature 18 (1983): 3-16.
Emory Elliott, "New Literary History: Past and Present." American
Literature (1985): 611-621.
Annette Kolodny, "The Integrity of Memory: Creating
a New Literary History of the United States," American
Literature 57 (1985):291-307.
Sacvan Bercovitch, "The Problem of Ideology in American literary
History," Critical Inquiry 12 (1986).
MLA Profession 93: Barbara Lewalski, "Critical
Issues in Literary Studies," 41. George Levine, "The Real
Trouble," 43-45.
Philip Gura, "Turning Our World Upside Down:
Reconceiving Early American Literature."
Book-length Primary Materials:
Hooker, The Soules Preparation (1632) or The Soules Humiliation (1637);
Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax; Arthur
Dent, The Plain Mans Pathway to Heaven (1601 and many later editions). |
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Feb. 7 |
The "Public Relation" |
"Confessions" by members of the congregation of Thomas Shepard's
Cambridge church, in God's Plot, pp. 135-225.
"Relations" recorded in Michael Wigglesworth's Diary |
Hall, Worlds of Wonder, Chapter 3, "The Meetinghouse."
Mary Rhinelander McCarl, "Thomas Shepard's Record of Relations
of Religious Experience, 1648-1649," William & Mary
Quarterly, 48 (1991), 432-66.
Charles L. Cohen,
Chapter 7 ("Tales of Grace"), God's Caress: The Psychology of Religious Experience (N.Y.,
1986)
Book-length secondary studies:
Patricia Caldwell, Puritan Conversion Narratives (1983).
Edmund Morgan, Visible Saints: The History of an Idea (N.Y.,
1963).
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WMQ 57 (2000) Forum: Early American Literature: Looking
Ahead. Philip F. Gura, “Early American Literature at
the New Century,” 599-620; Carla Mulford, “The
Ineluctability of the Peoples' Stories,”621-634; David
S. Shields, “Joy
and Dread among the Early Americanists,” 635-640; Michael
P. Clark, “The Persistence of Literature in Early American
Studies,” 641-646.
Ivy Schweitzer. "Salutary Decouplings: The Newest
New English Studies." ALH 13.3 (Fall 2001): 577-91. |
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Feb. 17
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Geography of the Soul |
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress, Part I |
Leopold Damrosch, God's Plot and Man's Stories: Studies
in the
Fictional Imagination from Milton to Fielding. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago
Press, 1985.
John R. Knott. "'A Suffering People': Bunyan and the Language of Martyrdom."
Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American
Faith. (Bremer, 1993). |
Gregory Jay, "The End of 'American' Literature: Toward a
Multicultural Practice," College English 53.3 (March
1991).
Fleigelman and Mulford from American Literature "Forum:
What Do We Need to Teach?" |
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Feb. 21 |
Spiritual Autobiography |
Thomas Shepard's Diary and Autobiography in God's
Plot.
Edward
Taylor, "Personal Relation."
Jonathan
Edwards, "Personal Narrative." |
Margo Todd, "Puritan Self-fashioning." Puritanism. Bremer,
ed. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993.
57-87.
Sargent Bush, "Epistolary Counseling in the Puritan Movement:
The Example of John Cotton." Puritanism. Bremer,
ed. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993. 127-46.
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Philip Gleason, "American Identity and Americanization," from Concepts of
Ethnicity:Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, (Cambridge: Harvard
UP,1982).
Henry Giroux,"Liberal Arts Education and the Struggle for Public Life: Dreaming
about Democracy," South Atlantic Quarterly 89 (1990).
John Higham, "Multiculturalism and Universalism: A History
and a Critique," American Quarterly 45.2 (June 1993).
Gerald Early, "American Education and the Postmodern Impulse," American
Quarterly 45.2 (June 1993). |
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Feb. 28 |
Spitirual Autobiography |
John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners |
Vincent Newey, "'With the eyes of my understanding': Bunyan,
Experience, and Acts of
Interpretation" in John Bunyan, Conventicle and Parnassus (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1988), pp. 190-216. |
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "Between Individualism and Fragmentation:
American Culture and the New literary Studies of Race and Gender," American
Quarterly 42.1 (March 1990).
Werner Sollers, "A Critique
of Pure Pluralism," Reconstructing American Literary History ed.
Sacvan Bercovitch, ed. (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1986). |
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Mar. 7 |
Meditative Poetry |
Anne Bradstreet: Selections from Several
Poems (1678). |
Jeffrey Hammond, "'Setting Up My Ebenezer':Anne Bradstreet
and the Examined Self." Sinful Self, Saintly Self:
The Puritan Experience of Poetry. Athens: U Georgia P, 1993. 83-102.
Ivy Schweitzer, "Anne Bradstreet: 'In the place God had set
her'." The Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry
in Colonial New England. Chapel Hill: U North Carolina P, 1991. 127-180. |
Marianne Whechel, "Transforming the Canon with Nontraditional
by Women," College English 46.6 (October, 1984);
Lillian
S. Robinson, "Treason Our Text: Feminist Challenges to the
Literary Canon," from The New Feminist Criticism.
Frances
Maher,"Classroom Pedagogy and the New Scholarship on Women," from Gendered
Subjects (Routledge 1985).
Nancy Schneidewind, "Teaching Feminist Process," Women's Study Quarterly XV (Fall/Winter
1987). |
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Mar. 14 |
Meditative Poetry |
Taylor, PMI |
Jeffrey Hammond, "'Both Wayes Born': Edward Taylor as
Weary Pilgrim." Sinful Self, Saintly Self:
The Puritan Experience of Poetry. Athens: U Georgia
P, 1993. 164-185.
Raymond Craig, "The 'Peculiar Elegance of Edward Taylor's
Poetics." The Tayloring Shop. Michael Schuldiner,
ed. Newark: U Delaware P, 1997. 68-101. |
R. Berkhofer, "A
New Context for a New American Studies," American Quarterly (citation
later). |
Spring Break
Mar. 21 |
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Mar. 28 |
Meditative Poetry |
Taylor PMII |
Jeffrey Hammond, "'This Crumb of Dust': Pilgrim
Voice and Christic Reader in the Preparatory
Meditations." Sinful
Self, Saintly Self:
The Puritan Experience of Poetry. Athens: U Georgia
P, 1993. 186-212.
Ivy Schweitzer, "The Puritan Cult of the Spouse: Edward
Taylor's Dialectic of Difference." The Work of Self-Representation:
Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England. Chapel Hill: U North
Carolina P, 1991. 79-125. |
Research Paper Proposal |
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Apr. 4
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Redemptive Ordeal |
Rowlandson / Williams narratives; Vaughan, Clark Selections |
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Susan Hegeman, "Native American 'Texts' and the Problem of
Authenticity," American Quarterly 41.2 (June 1989);
Ruppert, "The Old Wisdom: Introducing Native American Materials." Teaching
the Literatures of Early America, ed. Carla Mulford. New York: MLA, 1999.
11-26.
Daniel Littlefield Jr., "American Indians, American Scholars, and the American
Literary Canon," American Studies 33.2 (Fall 1992);
Arnold Krupat, "Scholarship and Native American Studies: A Response to Daniel
Littlefield, Jr." American Studies 34.2 (Fall 1993).
Richard Pointer, "Imitating Language to a Language of Imitation." Puritanism
and Its Discontents. (2003).
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Apr. 11 |
History of the Errand |
Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation |
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Giles Gunn, "Beyond Transcendence or Ideology: The New Problematics
of Cultural Criticism in America," American Literary History 2.1(Spring
1990).
Gerald Graff, "Teach the Conflicts," South Atlantic
Quarterly 89 (1990) |
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Apr. 18 |
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Johnson, Wonder Working Providence |
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Jane Tomkins "Pedagogy of the Distressed," College English 52
(October 1990).
Stephen Brookfield, "On Impostureship, Cultural Suicide, and Lost Innocence, Faculty
Development 6.2 (Winter l993). |
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Apr. 25 |
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Cotton, Magnalia Christi Americana |
Stievermann, Jan. "Writing 'To
Conquer All Things':
Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana and the Quandary
of Copia. EAL (2004): 263-297.
Stephen Woolsey. "Staging a Puritan Saint." Puritanism
and Its Discontents. (2003). |
Hazard Adams, "Canons: literary Criteria/Power Criteria," Critical
Inguiry 14 (Summer 1989).
Robert Dale Parker, "Material
Choices: American Fictions, the Classroom, and the Post-Canon," American
Literary History 1. 5 (1993). |
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May 2 |
Philosophical Challenge of the Errand |
Edwards, Will, Images / Shadows |
Locke, Phenomena
David Laurence, "Jonathan Edwards , John Locke and the Canon
of Experience" EAL 15 (1980): 107-23.
Stavely, "The Spirit of the Old Writers: The Great Awakening
and the Persistence of Puritan Piety." Puritanism.
Bremer, ed. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993. 277-291. |
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Final:
May 9, 5.45-8.00 |
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Research Paper Due |
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