English Department
ENG 343 Term 1

American Renaissance

Monday

9/1

Introduction to Course

1:00 Meeting with Lane Dunlop

Tuesday

9/2

Discussion: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter: "The Custom-House," Chpts I-IV

Wednesday

9/3

Discussion: The Scarlet Letter: Chpts V-XV

Thursday

9/4

Discussion: The Scarlet Letter: Chpts XVI-XXIV

Friday

9/5

No Class

Saturday

9/6

5:00 Paper due on The Scarlet Letter


Monday


9/8


Discussion: Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit

1:30 Discussion: Leaves of Grass: "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete," "Great Are the Myths," "Europe: The 72nd and 73rd Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad"

Tuesday

9/9

Discussion: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"

1:30 Discussion: Leaves of Grass: "A Song for Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer"

Wednesday

9/10

1:00 Discussion: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Chpts 1-16

Thursday

9/11

No Class

Friday

9/12

Discussion: Moby-Dick: Chpts 17-57


Monday


9/15


Discussion: Moby-Dick: Chpts 58-110

Tuesday

9/16

Discussion: Moby-Dick: Chpts 111-Epilogue

Wednesday

9/17

Discussion: Leaves of Grass: "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Passage to India"

Thursday

9/18

Discussion: Henry David Thoreau, Walden: to p. 67

Friday

9/19

Discussion: Walden: to p. 140


Monday


9/22


Discussion: Walden--finish

Tuesday

9/23

Final Examination

Wednesday

9/24

5:00 Paper due on Moby-Dick or Walden

 

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