ENGLISH 3380: SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I
“Revolution and the Written Word”
Section 1, Fall 2010: COB 103, 10:50-12:05, Tuesdays and Thursdays
Course Webpage: http://www.uccs.edu/~faculty/lginsber/english338/index.html
Dr. Lesley Ginsberg
Office: 1007 Columbine Hall
E-Mail: lginsber@uccs.edu
Office Phone: 255-4004
Mailbox: 1042 Columbine Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm, and by appointment.
Schedule for In-Class Presentations on a Secondary Source:
Week Four
Tues., 14 Sept.
Puritan Revolution and the Woman Writer
Anne Bradstreet (A 187-88), “The Flesh and the Spirit,” “The Author to
Her Book” (A 202-05), “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of
Our House…” (A 212-13); SKIM The New-England Primer (A 353-56).
*Secondary Source: Reid, Bethany. “‘Unfit for Light’: Anne Bradstreet’s
Monstrous Birth.” New England Quarterly 71:4 (Dec. 1998): 517-42.
Web. Jessica Abell, Lindsay Stroup, Clinton Nicholson.
Week Five
Tues., 21 Sept.
Natives, Witches, and Revolution
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative… (A 256-67); Read Sherman Alexie,
“Captivity,” On-Line.
*Secondary Source: Lepore, Jill. The Name of War. New York: Knopf,
1998. ix-xv, 125-36. Book On Reserve. Jackie Gallagher, Rob Burton,
Brittni Darras.
Week Six
Thurs., 30 Sept.
Revolution and Patriarchal Authority
Finish Franklin, The Autobiography (A 491-518, 522-34).
John and Abigail Adams, J. Sullivan, “Letters 1776” (one page,
HANDOUT attached to syllabus).
*Secondary Source: Looby, Christopher. “‘The Affairs of the
Revolution….’” American Quarterly 38:1 (Spring 1986): 72-96. Web.
Emily Robinson, Susan Hulsopple, Chris Seward.
Week Eight
Tues., 12 Oct.
Romantic Revolution
Contexts: Skim Norton B 929-950; Read Washington Irving, “Rip Van
Winkle,” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (B 951-85).
*Secondary Source: Bedell, Rebecca. “John Quidor and the Demonic
Imagination: Ichabod Crane Flying from the Headless Horseman (c
1828).” Yale Journal of Criticism 11: 1 (Spring1998): 111-18. Web.
Jillian Mathena, Chris Stork, Megan Lovell, Alyse Bessert.
Thurs., 14 Oct.
Week Ten
Thurs., 28 Oct.
**Extra Credit** Attend a performance of “Ben Franklin’s Tea
Party,” UCCS Theatreworks. See web. Free.
Revolutionary Words: Slavery
Finish Douglass, Narrative of the Life… (B 2094-2129).
*Secondary Source: Carson, Sharon. “Shaking the Foundation….”
Religion and Literature 24.2 (Summer 1992): 19-34. Web. Rhiannon
Conley-Pierson, Hannah Dettling, Dan Sack.
Week Eleven
Tues., 2 Nov.
Gothic Revolution
Edgar Allan Poe (B 1528-32), “The Fall of the House of Usher” (B 154365).
* Secondary Source: Peeples, Scott. “Poe’s ‘Constructiveness’ and ‘The
Fall of the House of Usher.’” The Cambridge Companion to Edgar Allan
Poe. Ed. Kevin J. Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. 178-90. Book
On Reserve. Cameron Karnes, Avalon Manly, Jenni Carrithers,
Jacquelyn Othon.
Thurs., 4 Nov.
Edgar Allan Poe. “The Purloined Letter” (B 1599-1611).
* Secondary Source: Medoro, Dana. “‘So Very Self Evident….’”
Literature and Medicine 26.2 (Fall 2007): 342-63. Web. Larissa
Bramhall, Brandi Ballard, Ashley Wallentine.
Week Twelve
Thurs., 11 Nov.
Revolutionary Fiction and the Antebellum Reader
Finish Melville, “Benito Cereno” (B 2430-61).
* Secondary Source: Richards, Jason. “Melville’s (Inter)national
Burlesque: Whiteface, Blackface, and ‘Benito Cereno.’” American
Transcendental Quarterly 21.2 (June 2007): 73-94. Web. Audrea
Branham, Elizabeth Finch, Lane Goodman.
Quiz 4.
Week Thirteen
Thurs., 18 Nov.
Narrative Revolution
Continue Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (B 1405-50).
* Secondary Source: Doyle, Lara. “‘A’ for Atlantic: the Colonizing Force
of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.” American Literature 79.2 (June
2007): 243-73. Web. Focus on pp251-end.
Quiz 5. Rachel Flowers, Kelind Baker, Ashley Downing.