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American Literature Survey

Humanities

Author: Robert Wyckoff
Publisher: Housatonic Community College
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01: Week X First Encounters
1.01: Indigenous Stories
1.1.01: Creation Story (Haudenosaunee (Iroquois))
1.1.02: How the World Was Made (Cherokee)
1.1.03: Origin of Disease and Medicine (Cherokee)
1.1.04: Of the Girl who Married Mount Katahdin (Penobscot)
1.1.05: The Coming of the Whiteman Revealed - Dream of the White Robe and Floating Island (Micmac)
1.02: European Exploration Accounts
1.2.01: Thomas Harriot
1.2.1.01: From A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
1.2.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
1.2.02: John Smith
1.2.2.01: From The Generall Historie of Virginia New-England and the Summer Isles
1.2.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
1.2.03: Adriaen van der Donck
1.2.3.01: From A Description of New Netherland the Country
1.2.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
02: Week X New England
2.01: Introduction
2.02: William Bradford
2.2.01: Of Plymouth Plantation
2.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
2.03: Thomas Morton
2.3.01: New English Canaan (Excerpt)
2.04: Mary Rowlandson
2.4.01: From The Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson
2.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
2.4.03: Student Responses to Mary Rowlandson
2.4.3.01: Watch the Point of View
2.4.3.02: The Role of Religion in the Colonial Encounter
2.4.3.03: Perspective of One-Eyed John from the First Remove.
2.4.3.04: Those Monsters
2.4.3.05: A Guilty Victim
2.4.3.06: How to Get Away with Genocide
2.4.3.07: Colonial Enfrownters And How to Survive One
2.4.3.08: Paint with All the Colors of Perspective
2.4.3.09: The Contorted Colonial Encounter
2.4.3.10: Exposing Yourself Whilst Trying To Expose Others
2.05: Introduction
03: Week X Puritanism and it's problems
3.01: Roger Williams
3.1.01: Christenings Make Not Christians
3.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
3.02: Cotton Mather
3.2.01: Wonders of the Invisible World- The Authors Defence
3.2.02: Wonders of the Invisible World- The Trial of Martha Carrier at the Court of Oyer and Terminer Salem August 2 1692
3.2.03: Decennium Luctuosum- An History of Remarkable Occurrences in the Long War
3.03: Jonathan Edwards
3.3.01: Introduction (2015)
3.3.02: Personal Narrative (Excerpt)
3.3.03: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Excerpt)
04: Week X Political and Social Though of the Late 18th Century
4.01: Introduction
4.02: Benjamin Franklin
4.2.01: The Way to Wealth
4.2.02: An Edict by the King of Prussia
4.2.03: Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One
4.2.04: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
4.2.05: Reading and Review Questions
4.03: Judith Sargent Murray
4.3.01: On the Equality of the Sexes
4.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
4.04: John Adams and Abigail Adams
4.4.01: From Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution
4.4.02: Reading and Review Questions
4.05: Thomas Jefferson
4.5.01: Introduction (2015)
4.5.02: Notes on the State of Virginia (Excerpt)
4.5.03: Letter to Nathaniel Burwell
4.06: The Federalist
4.6.01: Federalist 1
4.6.02: Federalist 10
4.6.03: Reading and Review Questions
4.07: J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
4.7.01: From Letters from an American Farmer
4.7.02: Reading and Review Questions
05: Week X Native Americans and the 19th Century
5.01: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
5.1.01: From Hope Leslie
5.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
5.02: William Apess
5.2.01: An Indians Looking-Glass for the White Man
5.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
5.03: James Fenimore Cooper
5.3.01: The Pioneers
5.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
Other Indigenous Writers
06: Week X Poetry of the Early Republic
6.01: Anne Bradstreet
6.1.01: The Prologue
6.1.02: The Author to Her Book
6.1.03: To My Dear and Loving Husband
6.1.04: Contemplations
6.1.05: Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
6.1.06: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
6.1.07: In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet
6.1.08: On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet
6.1.09: Reading and Review Questions
6.02: Phillis Wheatley
6.2.01: On Being Brought from Africa to America
6.2.02: To the Right Honorable William Earl of Dartmouth
6.2.03: On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield. 1770
6.2.04: To S. M. a Young African Painter on Seeing his Works
6.2.05: Letter to Rev. Samson Occom
6.2.06: Reading and Review Questions
6.03: Philip Freneau
6.3.01: To Sir Toby
6.3.02: The Indian Burying Ground
6.3.03: On Mr. Paines Rights of Man
6.3.04: A Political Litany
6.3.05: Reading and Review Questions
6.04: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney
6.4.01: To the First Slave Ship
6.4.02: Indian Names
6.4.03: Our Aborigines
6.4.04: Fallen Forests
6.4.05: Reading and Review Questions
6.05: William Cullen Bryant
6.5.01: Thanatopsis
6.5.02: To a Waterfowl
6.5.03: The Prairies
6.5.04: Reading and Review Questions
6.06: John Greenleaf Whittier
6.6.01: The Hunters of Men
6.6.02: The Farewell
6.6.03: Reading and Review Questions
07: Week X Supernatural Tales
7.01: Charles Brockden Brown
7.1.01: Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
7.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
7.02: Washington Irving
7.2.01: Introduction (2017)
7.2.02: Introduction (2016)
7.2.03: Rip Van Winkle
7.2.04: Rip Van Winkle- A Feminist Battle Cry
7.2.05: Irving Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
7.03: Edgar Allan Poe
7.3.01: SonnetTo Science
7.3.02: The Raven
7.3.03: Annabel Lee
7.3.04: Ligeia
7.3.05: The Fall of the House of Usher
7.3.06: The Tell-Tale Heart
7.3.07: The Purloined Letter
7.3.08: The Cask of Amontillado
7.3.09: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
7.3.10: Reading and Review Questions
7.3.11: Deviance in Edgar Allan Poe and American Literature (Group contribution 2019)
08: Week X Hawthorne and Melville
8.01: Nathaniel Hawthorne
8.1.01: My Kinsman Major Molineux
8.1.02: The Ministers Black Veil
8.1.03: Young Goodman Brown
8.1.04: The Birth-Mark
8.1.05: Rappaccinis Daughter
8.1.06: Reading and Review Questions
8.02: Herman Melville
8.2.01: Bartleby the Scrivener
8.2.02: Benito Cereno
8.2.03: The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
8.2.04: The Portent
8.2.05: A Utilitarian View of the Monitor Fight
8.2.06: Shiloh- A Requiem
8.2.07: Reading and Review Questions
09: Week X Transcendentalism
9.01: Introduction- Romanticism and Transcendentalism
9.02: Ralph Waldo Emerson
9.2.01: A Look Into Transcendentalism (Group Anthology Contribution 2019)
9.2.02: Introduction (2017)
9.2.03: Introduction (2016)
9.2.04: Self-Reliance (1841)
9.2.05: Double-Edged Pen
9.03: Henry David Thoreau
9.3.01: Resistance to Civil Government
9.3.02: From Walden or Life in the Woods
9.3.03: Reading and Review Questions
10: Week X White Women Writing Slavery
10.01: Lydia Maria Child
10.1.01: The Quadroons
10.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
10.02: Louisa May Alcott
10.2.01: My Contraband
10.2.02: Reading and Review Questions
10.03: Harriet Beecher Stowe
10.3.01: Uncle Toms Cabin
10.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
10.04: Student Responses to Stowe
10.4.01: Introduction (2017)
10.4.02: Introduction (2016)
10.4.03: When Sympathy Goes Beyond the Pages
10.4.04: All The Slave Texts Thus Far
10.4.05: Slaves Are Human TooWhen They Act White and Look Attractive
10.4.06: How to Depict a Black Character by Depicting Them as Not all Black
10.4.07: Hot People Are White-Looking and Good Ugly People Are Evil
10.4.08: Using Religion to Internalize Whiteness
10.4.09: Stowe was White
10.4.10: The Depiction of Race in Uncle Toms Cabin
10.4.11: The Mother The Father and the Holy American Man
10.4.12: The Book That Started the Civil War
10.4.13: Things To Stop Romanticizing- The Stranger Things Kids and 19th-Century Slaves
10.4.14: Gentle Giants
10.4.15: Uncle Toms Cabin- The Good The Bad and the Ugly
10.4.16: Racisms Prevalence in Early American Literature
11: Week X Black People Writing Slavery
11.01: Frederick Douglass
11.1.01: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself
11.1.02: Reading and Review Questions
11.02: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
11.2.01: The Slave Mother
11.2.02: Ethiopia
11.2.03: Learning to Read
11.2.04: Reading and Review Questions
11.03: Harriet Jacobs
11.3.01: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
11.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
12: Week X- Whitman and Dickinson
12.01: Introduction
12.02: Walt Whitman
12.2.01: Song of Myself
12.2.02: Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
12.2.03: When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer
12.2.04: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
12.2.05: The Wound-Dresser
12.2.06: Reconciliation
12.2.07: When Lilies Last in Dooryard Bloomd
12.2.08: Reading and Review Questions
12.2.09: New Page
12.03: Emily Dickinson
12.3.01: 341 (Tis so appalling it exhilarates)
12.3.02: 348 (I would not paint a picture)
12.3.03: 353 (Im ceded Ive stopped being Theirs)
12.3.04: 355 (It was not Death for I stood up)
12.3.05: 359 (A Bird came down the Walk)
12.3.06: 372 (After great pain a formal feeling comes )
12.3.07: 381 (I cannot dance upon my Toes)
12.3.08: 407 (One need not be a Chamber to be Haunted)
12.3.09: 409 (The Soul selects her own Society)
12.3.10: 466 (I dwell in Possibility)
12.3.11: 122 (These are the days when Birds come back)
12.3.12: 479 (Because I could not stop for Death)
12.3.13: 519 (this is my letter to the World)
12.3.14: 598 (The Brain is wider than the Sky)
12.3.15: 620 (Much Madness is divinest Sense)
12.3.16: 656 (I started Early Took my Dog)
12.3.17: 675 (What soft Cherubic Creatures)
12.3.18: 764 (My Life had stood a Loaded Gun )
12.3.19: 857 (She rose to His Requirement dropt)
12.3.20: 1096 (A narrow Fellow in the Grass)
12.3.21: 1263 (Tell all the truth but tell it slant)
12.3.22: 194 (Title divine is mine)
12.3.23: 1773 (My life closed twice before its close)
12.3.24: Reading and Review Questions
12.3.25: 207 (I taste a liquor never brewed)
12.3.26: 225 (Im wife Ive finished that)
12.3.27: 236 (Some keep the Sabbath going to Church)
12.3.28: 260 (Im Nobody Who are you)
12.3.29: 269 (Wild nights Wild nights)
12.3.30: 320 (Theres a certain Slant of light)
12.3.31: 340 (I felt a Funeral in my Brain)
13: Week X Realism to Naturalism
13.01: Introduction- Realism
13.02: Introduction- Naturalism
13.03: Rebecca Harding Davis
13.3.01: Life in the Iron Mills
13.3.02: Reading and Review Questions
13.04: Mark Twain
13.4.01: Introduction (2015)
13.4.02: The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
13.4.03: The One Million Pound Banknote
13.4.04: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
13.05: Ambrose Bierce (1842circa 1914)
13.06: Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)
13.07: Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
14: Week X Women Writers at the end of the 19th Century
14.01: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
14.02: Kate Chopin (1850 - 1904)
14.03: Chopin Kate The Story of an Hour (1894)
14.04: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930)
14.05: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935)
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