N. Cone English 2326 Reading List Fall 2009
Assignment Schedule for English 2326
August 31-December 11, 2009
We will read the following assignments. Always read the assignment before you come to class. Quizzes will not be assigned in advance.
Unit I: The Literature of Colonial America
Monday August 31
CIS; Course introduction
Wednesday September 2
The Literature of Colonial America introduction 1-13
Christopher Columbus 14-23
Monday September 7---Labor Day Holiday
Wednesday September 9
Native American Voices 38-48
Genesis Chapters 1-5 (online)
Monday September 14
Anne Bradstreet 96-109
Wednesday September 16
Mary Rowlandson 148-165
Monday September 21- Wednesday September 23
Johathan Edwards 171-173
--Sarah Pierrepont 173
--“Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God” 174-185
Paper 1 discussion and handout
Monday September 28
Unit II: The Literature of Reason and Revolution
Readings:
Benjamin Franklin 191-197
• From the Autobiography 198-204
Wednesday September 30
-----Paper 1 due
Thomas Paine 274-275
• From: “Common Sense” 276-277
• From: “The American Crisis” 277-283
Monday October 5
Thomas Jefferson 284-285
• The Declaration of Independence 286-288
• Letters to James Madison and John Adams 298-304
Wednesday October 7
The Federalist Papers 304-305
The Federalist No. 10 305-310
Monday October 12
Film Review: TBA
Wednesday October 14
Paper 2 handout and discussion
The Age of Romanticism
Washington Irving 404-405
• Rip Van Winkle 415-428
Monday October 19- Wednesday October 21
Edgar Allan Poe 487-489
• The Raven 493-496
• Annabel Lee 496-497
• The Fall of the House of Usher 408-422
Monday October 26
Paper 2 Due
Wednesday October 28
Ralph Waldo Emerson 548-551
• Nature 551-578
• Self Reliance 592-609
Monday November 2
Nathaniel Hawthorne 620-622
• Young Goodman Brown 622-632
• The Minister’s Black Veil 632-640
Wednesday November 4
Abraham Lincoln 988
Gettysburg Address 991
Monday November 9
Walt Whitman 992
“To a Locomotive in Winter” 1099
Emily Dickinson 1101
“I like to see it lap the miles” 1111
Wednesday November 11
Paper 3 Handout and discussion
Monday November 16
The Age of Realism 1119
Mark Twain 1126
“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” 1129
Wednesday November 18
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1425
“The Yellow Wallpaper” 1428
Paper 3 Due
Monday November 23
Stephen Crane 1445
“The Open Boat” 1449
Wednesday November 25
The Modernist Era
Robert Frost 1537
“Out—Out” Handout
Monday November 30
Flannery O’Connor
“Good Country People” 2000
Wednesday December 2
Prepare for Final Exam
