Jan 15  Expectations

20  Emerson: “The Lord’s Supper,” “Spirit” and “Prospects” from Nature; “The American Scholar”

22  Emerson: Divinity School Address; “Self-Reliance”; “Uriel”

27  Emerson: “Compensation”; “Experience”; “Threnody.”

Report 1: Larson

29  Emerson: “Fate”; “Days.”

Report 2: Friedl

Feb 3  Emerson: “Thoreau.”  Thoreau: “Resistance to Civil Government”

Report 3: Johnson

5  Fuller: “Autobiographical Romance”; “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain”

Report 4: Capper

10  Fuller: Summer on the Lakes, Chapter 4; begin Woman in the Nineteenth Century. 

Report 5: Tonkovich

12  Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century (245-349; omit Appendix)

Report 6: Kolodny  

Short paper bibliography due

17  First exam

19  Em/Ful/Haw: Berkson, Zwarg, Mitchell (on reserve)

Report 7: Crain

24  Hawthorne: The Blithedale Romance

26  Hawthorne: Blithedale

Report 8:  Miller

Mar 2  Hawthorne: Blithedale

Report 9: Grossberg

Short paper due

4  Cooper: The Deerslayer

9  Cooper:  Deerslayer

Report 10: Person

11  Cooper: Deerslayer

springbreak

springbreak

23  Melville: Moby-Dick

25  Melville: Moby-Dick

Report 11: early reviews of M-D

30     Melville: Moby-Dick

Report 12: Hayford

Apr 1  Melville: Moby-Dick

Report 13: Martin

6  Melville: Moby-Dick

8  Melville: Moby-Dick

Report 14: Parker

13  Second exam

15  No class

20  Melville: “Benito Cereno”

Report 15: Karcher [Jordan Hartt]

22  Melville: “Bartleby the Scrivener”

Report 16: Colacurcio

27  Melville:  Billy Budd?  Or Whitman?

29  Whitman: Preface of 1855 edition, “Song of Myself”

Report 17: Lawson

May 4  Whitman: Children of Adam, Calamus

Long paper due

6  Whitman: “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”; “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”; “the Sleepers”; “A Noiseless Patient Spider”

Final exercise Wednesday, May 12, 7:30 am