ENGLISH 441
SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I:
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE
Dr. Karen Roggenkamp
 

   

Syllabus
 

FALL 2008 SYLLABUS

 



Image: Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Mary, circa 1671

 

Power Points
 

Puritan World View
Images: Winthrop, Bradford, Morton
Publishing and the Captivity Narrative
Into the Enlightenment
Early American Novel
Charlotte Temple
Print Culture in Early 19th Century
Native American Literature
Cult of True Womanhood
Uncle Tom's Cabin
American Transcendentalism
 


General Web Resources

Gee Library Gateway to Early American Imprints
American Passages: A Literary Survey
Early Americas Digital Archive
Early American Paintings
Society of Early Americanists 
Book-A-Minute
 

Puritan Web Resources 

The May-pole of Merry Mount
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Salem Witch Documentary Archive
PBS "Colonial House" 
NPR Audio Clip: Mistress Bradstreet
Thomas Morton essay by Edward M. Griffin
Thomas Morton essay by William R. Heath 

Race and Narrative Web Resources

On the Media: "Uncle Tom"
Little Eva, the Flower of the South
The Slave's Friend (Children's Periodical)
Library of Congress: UTC
UTC and American Culture (UVA)
UTC and American Theatre
New York Times Frederick Douglass Article, 9/5/06

Sentimentality Web Resources

Sentimental Culture (UVA)
Godey's Lady's Book Samples
Sentimental Fiction Overview
Wright American Fiction
Fanny Fern & Fern Leaves

Romanticism and
Transcendentalism Web Resources

Creation of "The Raven" (NPR)
Creation of Thoreau's Walden (NPR)
Emily Dickinson Links
Whitman Archive
Walt Whitman Links

 

Timelines
 
Timeline of Key Figures/Events
Salem Witch Trials Timeline

 

Handouts
 
Writing Assignments:
Critical Response Paper Topics
 
Exam Information:
Exam One Review Sheet
Exam Two Review Sheet
 
Random Information:
The May-pole of Merry Mount
"Comics"--Colonial America
 
Reading Questions:
Bradford/Winthrop Reading Questions
Bradstreet Reading Questions
Rowlandson Reading Questions
Franklin Reading Questions
Schoolcraft Reading Questions
Stowe Reading Questions
Douglass Reading Questions
Emerson/Thoreau Reading Questions


    
    

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