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1. Intro and Puritans

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Housekeeping handout 1 - dyscyplina lista lektur - egzamin - lista lektur z datami, kojarzenie autorw z tytuami dzie i datami, i grupami lub prdami literackimi Periodyzacja - handout - okresy: -- Colonial (1607-1776) ----Puritan (1620-1776) ----Other colonial (1607-1776) ----Enlightenment (1700-1776) --Early National (1776-1836) --American Renaissance (1836-1865) --The Gilded Age (1865-1914) --Modernism (1914-1930) --The Red Decade (1930-1945) --Post-War (1945-1968) --Post-Modernism (1968-1989) --Ethnic, Feminist, Post-Colonial Turn (1989-2000) --Contemporary (2000-2013) - nazwiska wypenia na bieco - genres dzieli kolorami - motywy i tematy dzieli stronami
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1. Intro and Puritans Puritans - chosen national identity - other bridgeheads

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9. bridgeheads 10. Leyendec 11. Leyendec 12. Bradf mnsc 13. sermn prnt 14. Plymuth 15. Mflr Comp 16. Leviathan 17. Arabella 18. Srmn mnt 19. civitas dei 20. New Israel 21. DofDoom 22. Indep Day 23. Bradstrt 24. Baxtr witch

Other Puritan authors (Genesis, Exodus, Apocalypse)

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2. 18th century

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Bradstreet and Taylor handout Bradstreet ?1612-1672 (Northampton-Salem) 1650: To My Dear and Loving Husband, Dialogue Between Old England and New, Before the Birth of One of Her Children, Meditations Taylor (?1642-1729) (?-Westfield, MA) ca 1700 (1671) 1939: Preparatory Meditations, Upon a Spider Catching a Fly, love poems Literature in America as the life of the mind

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2. 18th century Edwards and Franklin (topology and Marquis de Concordets Sketsch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1794) Edwards (1703-1758) read Lockes Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) at 13 Calvinism Freedom of the Will and Dissertation on Virtue, slightly modified for easier reading (1733) Lockes philosophy A Divine and Supernatural Light, Immediately Imparted to the Soul by the Spirit of God. (1734) Images and Shadows of Divine Things (ca 1720, 1948) Franklin (1706-1790) 1723-fugitive from apprenticeship in Boston 1723-proposes to Deborah Read 1723-leaves for London 1730-has an illegitimate son 1733-Poor Richards Almanac, glass harmonica, population studies, Atlantic sea currents, electricity, geology, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, autobiography 1790 Autobiography, use of table

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Early biographical narratives and novels Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereigny and Goodness of God (1684) William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy: Or, The Triumph of Nature (1789) Susanna Rowson, Charlotte: A Tale of Truth (1791) Exam: 5 qq for everybody, the other 5 will be during lecture sometime, so everybody has it and passes

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3. Early National prose; 1776-(1820)-1836 Literary nationalism; foreign derision and domestic claims - Sydney Smith (a British literary critic who asked in 1820: In all the quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?) - James Wentworth Longfellow (one of the many Americans who were worried about such comments, and generally about lack of national literature) Cult of nature and American exceptionalism: Spartan, Roman and sentimental inspirations; Concordet, Rousseau, Filson Early sentimental and satirical novel - William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy (1789) - Susanna Rowson, Shirley Temple (1791) - Hannah W. Foster, The Coquette (1797) - Tabitha Tenney, Female Quixotism (1801) - Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry (1792-1815) American Gothic and Brown 1801 Sally Wood, Julia and the Illuminated Baron 1811 Isaac Mitchell The Asylum: Or, Alonzo and Melissa a large, old fashioned castle-like building fifty miles from NYC Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) - psycho-Gothic Wieland (1789) - novelization of Philadelphia murders Edgar Huntley: or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker (1799) - frontier

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Washington Irving; short story, folklore (popular, democratic source of culture) - various articles in Salmagudi (1815-1820) - Sketches of Jeffrey Crayon, Gent (1820) - Stories of a Traveller (1824) subsequent artistic and political career: - A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) - Astoria (1836) - Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837)

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4. Early National poetry Early patriotic poetry, anxiety of influence (Transatlantic Double Cross); - how not to re-write English literature - themes: the American myth (the new Eden, the new Adam) - themes: nature, democracy, future of America - American, democratic verse? (no) Connecticut wits 1780-1820 - imitations of Augustian poetry John Trumbull (1750-1831), MFingal 1775 Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), Greenfield Hill 1794 Joel Barlow (1754-1812) Vision of Columbus (1787) Columbiad (1807) The Hasty Pudding (1793)

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William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) 1817 Thanatopsis 1834 The Prairies The course of the empire Hudson School of American painting 5. American Romance Cooper and sir Walter Scott slide handout

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4. Early National poetry Early patriotic poetry, anxiety of influence (Transatlantic Double Cross); - how not to re-write English literature - themes: the American myth (the new Eden, the new Adam) - themes: nature, democracy, future of America - American, democratic verse? (no) Connecticut wits 1780-1820 - imitations of Augustian poetry John Trumbull (1750-1831), MFingal 1775 Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), Greenfield Hill 1794 Joel Barlow (1754-1812) Vision of Columbus (1787) Columbiad (1807) The Hasty Pudding (1793)

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Romance and the Gothic: Bird The South: Simms Romance and American literature as the life of the mind later continuations; delay in realism 6. Poe Psycho Gothic and idealism; life of the mind Fiction: story grouping Non-fiction: early aesthetic Poetry slide handout

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4. Early National poetry Early patriotic poetry, anxiety of influence (Transatlantic Double Cross); - how not to re-write English literature - themes: the American myth (the new Eden, the new Adam) - themes: nature, democracy, future of America - American, democratic verse? (no) Connecticut wits 1780-1820 - imitations of Augustian poetry John Trumbull (1750-1831), MFingal 1775 Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), Greenfield Hill 1794 Joel Barlow (1754-1812) Vision of Columbus (1787) Columbiad (1807) The Hasty Pudding (1793)

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7. American Renaissance: prose Romancers keep writing Domestic novel Stowe

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8. American Renaissance: New England Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Fuller Beecher, Hedge

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9. American Renaissance: Melville and Hawthorne Nay-sayers (genesis); romancers (evolution) Hawthorne Melville

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10. American Renaissance: poetry Whitman; American epic, influence on modernist epics Dickinson Minor: Boston Brahmins, Whittier

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11. American Renaissance: popular literature Reynolds argument Lippard

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11. American Renaissance: popular literature

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Young America; OSullivan revelations

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12. Gilded Age: Twain Use of mythic figures: rebirth, eternal innocence, escape, nature Satirical sketches Children and Huck Yankee and No. 44

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13. Gilded Age: lesser authors, regionalists Howellss thesis; no longer life of the mind Jamess thesis; the lag and detritus West: Harte, Mary Hunter Austin New England: Jewett, Wilkins Freeman South: Chopin, Cable 14. Gilded Age: late phase, naturalism

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Harte, London Dreiser

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13. Gilded Age: lesser authors, regionalists Howellss thesis; no longer life of the mind why naturalism; as typology

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15. Gilded Age: pop (optional)

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early sf and crime magazines

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NEW SEMESTER 16. Modernism: early poetry fascinations Amy Lowell, Harriet Monroe, Peggy Guggenheim; little magazines Some Imagist Poets Pound; Eliot, Williams, Stevens Chicago poets

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17. Modernism: later poetry evolution to longer forms Eliot and Pound emigrate late Williams and Stevens Crane Fugitives

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17. Modernism: later poetry evolution to longer forms 18. Modernism: early prose Joyces Ulysses; new experience; time and douree Sherwood Anderson Thomas Wolfe Faulkner

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19. Modernism: later prose

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Novels without words

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20. Inter-war pop

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21. Post-war prose social criticism and satire John Cheever Mary McCarthy, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth OConnor and McCullers Harper Lee, drama 22. Post-war poetry confessional, continuation of modernist nature poetry, Black Mountain Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath Elizabeth Bishop, A.R. Amons Charles Olson

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23. Post-war poetry and pop (optional) Robert Heinlein and Alfred Bester Beatnicks

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24. Post-modern theory and prose historiographic metafiction (Linda Hutcheon): Gaddis, Pynchon, Barth, Doctorov

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24. Post-modern theory and prose Literature of exhaustion (Barth 1968) experimental, self-referential form: Barth, Barthelme, Federman

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25. Post-modern and ethnic prose Indian Renaissance: N. Scott Momaday; Gerald Vizenor Blacks: Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Angelou, Walker, Morrison

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26. Post-modern poetry

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Feminist and ethnic protest: Rich, Lorde, Anzaldua

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27. Post-modern poetry 2 (optional)

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28. Contemporary prose Demise: Morrison, Roth, Updike Recent Gaddis and Pynchon Powers Coover, Hannah and Mason

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29. Contemporary poetry

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30. Most recent trends and awards

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