Dr. Fan A. Shen
Early American Literature

Office: MH 336
Phone: 285-7518
Hours: MWRF 10-11

Syllabus

8/28 M Introduction. Sign up for oral report.

9/4 M Holiday. No class.

9/11 M Readings: Iroquois 54-67; Smith 105-113; Winnebago 122-131;

Dove, Chinook, Navajo136-152.

Writing assignment due: One page (single space) response.

Lecture: Overview. Oral reports begin. Class discussion.

Sign up for oral report.

9/18 M Readings: Bradford 164-166, 174-177, 181-189; Winthrop 214-217,

223-231; Williams 234-239; Bradstreet 247-248, 262-280.

Writing Assignment due: One page summary.

Lecture: Puritanism and Calvinism. Oral reports and class discussion.

9/25 M Teacher's Conference. No class.

10/2 M Readings: Taylor 331-343, 349-351; Mather 374-379, 400-402;

Edwards 474-485.

Writing Assignment: One page summary.

Lecture: Disintegration of Puritanism. Oral reports and class discussion.

10/9 M Quiz I.

Readings: Franklin 493-498, 524-534, 574-585; Occom 612-619;

Crevecoeur 640-659.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

Lecture: Age of Reason, Deism, The Enlightenment. Discussion.

10/16 M Readings: Adams 680-686; Paine 693-711; Jefferson 714-719;

Hamilton 742-746.

Writing Assignment: One page summary or response.

Lecture: Federalism, The Southern Tradition, Deism.

10/23 M Readings: Freneau 815-823; Wheatley 825-830;

Morton 842-849.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

Lecture: Review Literary Terms: Poetry.

10/30 M Readings: Cooper 980-984; Irving 936-969; Bryant 1039-1044;

Longfellow 1450-1459.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

Lecture: Review Literary Terms: Fiction.

11/6 M Quiz II.

Readings: Emerson 1072-1114, 1126-1143, 1184-1202.

Writing Assignment: One page summary.

Lecture: Transcendentalism and Unitarianism.

11/13 M Readings: Hawthorne 1223-1236, 1252-1305.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

Movie: Rappaccini's Daughter.

11/20 M Readings: Poe 1483-1495, 1499-1521, 1535-1546, 1563-1567;

Lincoln 1582-1588.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

Lecture: British and American Romanticism.

11/27 M Readings: Thoreau 1752-1828, 1888-1892, 1915-1943.

Writing Assignment: One page summary.

Lecture: The Protest Literature/Tradition.

12/4 M Readings: Whitman 2080-2096, 2150-2153, 2182-2189, 2198-2216,

2238-2241; Dickinson 2491-2499, 2516-2519.

Writing Assignment: One page response.

12/11 M Readings: Melville 2261-2273, 2330-2355, 2372-2427.

Writing Assignment: Drafting of your final paper.

Lecture: Naturalism.

12/18 M Deadline: Turn in Your Final Paper and Portfolio to My Office

on or before This Date.

Examination week. No formal class. Conference.

Good Luck!