Schedule
| Sept. 3 | Introduction. | |
I. The New Woman |
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| Sept. 5 | Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1899) | |
| Sept. 10 | Edith Wharton, The House
of Mirth (1905), Book One, chapters 1-7. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from Women and Economics (1898): Chapters 1-5. |
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| Sept. 12 | The House of Mirth, Book One, chapters 8-15. | |
| Sept. 17 | No class -- Prof. Fitzpatrick out of town. | |
| Sept. 19 | The House of Mirth,
Book Two. Wharton response paper due. |
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| Sept. 24 | Willa Cather, A Lost Lady
(1923), Part One. George Santayana, “The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy” (1931), in The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays. |
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| Sept. 26 | A Lost Lady, Part
Two. Cather response paper due. |
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II. The Great War |
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| Oct. 1 | Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell
to Arms (1929), Books 1-2. Leslie Buswell, “With the American Ambulance Field Service in France: Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front” (1916) (http://raven.cc.ukans.edu/~libsite/wwi-www/Buswell/AAFS1.htm) |
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| Oct. 3 | A Farewell to Arms,
Books 3-5. Hemingway response paper due. |
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| Oct. 8 | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender
Is the Night (1934), Book 1. Andrew Carnegie, “Wealth” (1889) (http://www.furman.edu/~benson/docs/carnegie.htm) |
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| Oct. 10 | Tender Is the Night, Book 2. | |
| Oct. 15 | Tender Is the Night,
Book 3. Fitzgerald response paper due. |
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| Oct. 17 | No class — Prof. Fitzpatrick out of
town. Midterm paper due in English department office no later than 4:00 pm, Friday, October 18. |
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| Oct. 22 | No class — fall break. | |
| Oct. 24 | Dashiell Hammett, Red
Harvest (1929), chapters 1-12. Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address (1913); Declaration of Neutrality (1914); Second Inaugural Address (1917); War Message to Congress (1917); Fourteen Points (1918). (http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html) |
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| Oct. 29 | Red Harvest, chapters
13-27. Hammett response paper due. |
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III. The Meaning of “Race” |
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| Oct. 31 | Nella Larsen, Passing
(1929). W.E.B. Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk (1903): Chapters 1-4. (http://www.bartleby.com/114/) |
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| Nov. 5 | Richard Wright, Native
Son (1940), Introduction and Book One. |
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| Nov. 7 | Native Son, Book Two. | |
| Nov. 12 | Native Son, Book
Three. Wright response paper due. |
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| Nov. 14 | William Faulkner, Light
in August (1932), chapters 1-7. C. Vann Woodward, from The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955). |
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| Nov. 19 | Light in August,
chapters 8-14. Annotated bibliography due. |
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| Nov. 21 | Light in August,
chapters 15-21. Faulkner response paper due. |
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| Nov. 26 | Ralph Ellison, Invisible
Man (1952), chapters 1-6. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, from Racial Formations in the United States (1994). Term paper draft due to peer review partner. |
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| Nov. 28 | No class — Thanksgiving. | |
| Dec. 3 | Invisible Man,
chapters 7-13. Commented term paper draft due to peer review partner. |
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| Dec. 5 | Invisible Man, chapters 14-20. | |
| Dec. 10 | Invisible Man,
chapters 21-25. Concluding discussion. Ellison response paper due. Term paper due no later than 4:00 pm, Wednesday, December 11. |
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