craig :: uslit schedule

raymond craig
associate professor
department of english

english studies course schedule

	topic	reading assignments	assignments
1 Jan. 13, 15	new world, new people: first nations	"Talk Concerning the First Beginning" (24); "The Origin of Stories" (53); "Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures her" (61);"Creation of Whites" (64)
2 Jan. 20, 22	new world, new people: the european myth of america puritan realities	Columbus , all selections (107); de Vaca, The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, all selections (119); Smith "The General History" & other documents (242-256). Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation , Book 1 (313-316); Morton New English Canaan (283); Winthrop "A Model of Christian Charity" (2296); Williams, A Key into the Language of America, (337-353)
3 Jan. 27, 29	literary british america	Bradstreet (selected poems: 384, 394, 394, 395, 396, 396, 397); Taylor (selected poems: 467, 468, 470, 471, 472, 478)
4 Feb. 3, 5	literary british america	Rowlandson, "A narrative of the captivity", (425) Edwards, "Images & Shadows" (623), "Personal Narrative" (631)
5 Feb. 10, 12	enlightenment & revolution	Franklin "Edict" (794); "Speech of Polly Baker" (792), "On the Slave Trade" (802); Crevecoeur "Letter III" (905); Paine "Common Sense" (936), "The Crisis, No. 1" (942); ; Jefferson "The Declaration of Independence " (971)
6 Feb. 17, 19	enlightenment & revolution	Murray "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1157) Jefferson , "Notes of the State of Virginia " (975)
7 Feb. 24, 26	new england establishment	Irving "Rip Van Winkle" (2081); Bryant "Thanatopsis" (2813), "To a Waterfowl" (2816), "The Prairies" (2818); Longfellow "A Psalm of Life" (2823), Chaucer (2828)
8 Mar. 2, 4	self-improvement	Emerson "Nature" (1516)
9 Mar. 9, 11	self-reliance	Thoreau's Walden (1687ff)
10 Mar. 16, 18	cosmic brotherhood	Whitman "Song of Myself" (2863)
11 Mar. 30, Apr. 1	the menace of women	Poe "Ligeia" (2390); Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown" (2186), "The Birth-mark" (2204), "Rappaccini's Daughter" (2215)	r: essay proposal & bib due
12 Apr. 6, 8	the other voice: dickinson	Selections by number: 2977a & c, 2978, 2979a & b, 2984a, 2985a, 2987a & b, 2989a, 2994a, 2993b, 2996a, 2999b, 3001c, 3003a & c, 3006c & d, 3008.	a=first poem on page; b=second; c= third; etc.
13 Apr. 13, 15	race	Saffin-Sewell (pc & 489); Equiano (1118); Wheatley "On being brought from Africa to America " (1212), "To Maecenas" (1205); Child "Appeal" (1793); Garrison "Editorial" (1789; Jacobs "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" (1962); Douglass "Narrative of the Life" (1817)
14 Apr. 20, 22	race ii	stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (2478) melville, "Benito Cereno" (2598)	t: essay draft due
15 Apr. 26, 28	civil war	Lincoln "Gettysberg Address" (2009), Second Inaugural Address" (2010); Whitman "Reconciliation" (2940), "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (2941)
f fri may 7	7.45-10.00		final essay due