ENGLISH 516
Early American Literature: The Rise of American Narrative
Dr. Karen Roggenkamp

  

Syllabus:
Fall 2007 Syllabus

 

 


Image: page from New England Primer, c. 1690


Power Points:

Puritan World View
Typology, Sermon Form, & the Jeremiad
Captivity Narratives
Enter the Novel
 
Timelines:
International Timeline of Key Events & Figures
Salem Witch Trials Timeline

Handouts:

William Bradford excerpt, Of Plymouth Plantation
Account of Thomas Granger (OPP)
Excerpts from Journal of John Winthrop
 
Bradford/Winthrop Reading Questions
Bradstreet Reading Questions
Rowlandson Reading Questions
Franklin Reading Questions
 
Sample Proposals
 
Judeo-Christian Archetypal Pattern
 
Apess, Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man
 
 

   

Related Sites:

Gee Library (Gateway to Early American Imprints)
Plymouth Colony Archive Project
English Civil War
Hawthorne in Salem
Early Americas Digital Archive
PBS "Colonial House"
Early American Paintings
Salem Witch Trials Digital Archives
Society of Early Americanists
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       
        
         
         

 

 

 

 
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