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ENGL405: The American Renaissance
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Course Introduction
Unit 1: The American Renaissance in Context
Unit 2: Continuity and Change in Poetic Form
Unit 3: The Invention of the Short Story
Unit 4: The Development of the Novel and its Various Forms
Unit 5: Nature and Technology: Creating and Challenging American Identity
Unit 6: The Question of Women's Place in Society
Unit 7: The Slavery Controversy and Abolitionist Literature
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Course Syllabus
Romanticism in America
The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Essayists and Poets
William Wordsworth's
The Prelude
Expanding and Revising the American Renaissance
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The American Scholar"
Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?"
Biography of Andrew Jackson
William Apess' "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"
Jacksonian Democracy and the Ideal of the Self-Made Man
The Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism
Harold Clark Goddard's "Transcendentalism"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Editors to the Reader"
Sophia Ripley's "Woman"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Gnothi Seauton"
George Ripley's "1840 Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Reply to George Ripley"
Unit 1 Assessment
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Poet"
Overview of Ralph Waldo Emerson and "The Poet"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Threnody"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Rhodora"
Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Snow-Storm"
Edgar Allan Poe's "Philosophy of Composition"
Overview of Edgar Allen Poe and "Philosophy of Composition"
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven"
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier's "The Christian Slave"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Witnesses"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Quadroon Girl"
Edgar Allan Poe's "Review of Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems"
Edgar Allan Poe's "Review of Longfellow's Poems"
Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Free Verse
Introduction to Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself"
Image of Walt Whitman from 1855 Edition of "Leaves of Grass"
Walt Whitman
The Emily Dickinson Project
Emily Dickinson and the Nineteenth-Century Women Poets: The Poetics and Politics of Reticence
Emily Dickinson's "I'm Nobody"
Emily Dickinson's "The Soul Selects Her Own Society"
Emily Dickinson's "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died"
Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain"
Critical Commentary on Emily Dickinson
Unit 2 Assessment
The Short Story
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe's "Review of Twice-Told Tales"
Edgar Allen Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil"
The Gothic and the Antebellum American Short Story
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"
Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia"
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Imp of the Perverse"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"
Herman Melville's "Hawthorne and His Mosses"
Rationalism and Romanticism in Detective Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Biography of Herman Melville
Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"
Essay on Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno'
Unit 3 Assessment
Publishing in the US, 1820–1860
What Copyright Protection Is and How It Works
Literacy
Educational Reforms
Native American Education at Carlisle and Hampton
A Short History of the Early American Novel
Fiction Literature
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Preface to The House of the Seven Gables"
Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
The Scarlet "A": Role-Play in Writing
Sensationalism
Sentimentalism
Fanny Fern's (Sara Payson Willis') "Ruth Hall"
Unit 4 Assessment
Technology, Industrialization, and Antebellum U.S. Literature
Orestes Brownson's "The Laboring Classes"
The Election of 1824
Antebellum Economic Development and the Growth of Consumerism
Immigration
The Penny Press and the Emergence of Urban Mass Culture
The New Social Order
The Lost Museum
Blackface Minstrelsy
Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
Essay on Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener'
Herman Melville's "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"
Essay on Rebecca Harding Davis' "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Rebecca Harding Davis' "Life in the Iron-Mills"
Essay on Henry David Thoreau and "Walden"
Henry David Thoreau's "Walden"
Henry David Thoreau's "Resistance to Civil Government"
Unit 5 Assessment
Boundless
: "Women and the Early Republic"
U.S. Department of State: "Women of Influence"
Susan B. Anthony's "On Women's Right to Vote"
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
Women's Sphere and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement
"2014 Summer Conversational Series: Margaret Fuller and the Problem of Female Genius"
Margaret Fuller's "Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 1"
Margaret Fuller's "The Great Lawsuit, Man versus Men, Woman versus Women"
New World Encyclopedia: "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody"
Elizabeth Stoddard's "Lemorne versus Huell"
New World Encyclopedia: "Alice Paul"
New World Encyclopedia: "Frances Harper"
New World Encyclopedia: "Ida. B. Wells Barnett"
Susan Warner's
The Wide, Wide World
Essay on Louisa May Alcott and "Little Women"
Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women"
Unit 6 Assessment
Resistance and Abolition
The Library of Congress: "Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy"
Boundless
: "Manifest Destiny and the Western Frontier"
The Mexican War and Expansion of Slavery
Essay on David Walker, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Emergence of Radical Abolitionism
William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator: To the Public"
Excerpts from David Walker's "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"
New World Encyclopedia: "Lucretia Mott"
Essay on the Slave Narrative
Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"
Harriet Jacobs' "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Essay on Harriet Beecher Stowe and "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Unit 7 Assessment
ENGL405 Study Guide
ENGL405: Certificate Final Exam
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