Wednesday, 1/17 -- beginnings
Friday, 1/19 -- read Charlotte Temple (Chapters 1 - 17)
Monday, 1/24 -- finish Charlotte Temple
FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Untitled, by Stephanie Osborn | "Kissing Kathleen," by James Tysse
Wednesday, 1/26 -- Charlotte Temple
Friday, 1/28 -- NO CLASS
Monday, 1/31 -- read Wieland (Chapters 1 - 7)
SECOND WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Untitled, by Kate Porter
Wednesday, 2/2 -- read Wieland (Chapters 8 - 20)
Friday, 2/4 -- finish Wieland
Monday, 2/7 -- read The Pioneers (Chapters 1 - 15)
Wednesday, 2/9 -- read The Pioneers (Chapters 16 - 24)
Friday, 2/11 -- read The Pioneers (Chapters 25 - 34)
THIRD WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Untitled, by Christine Countryman | Untitled, by Chris Yeung
Untitled, by Giza High | Untitled, by Lauren Webb
Monday, 2/14 -- finish The Pioneers
Wednesday, 2/16 -- read Hope Leslie (Vol I i.e. Chaps 1-12)
Friday, 2/18 -- read Hope Leslie (Vol II, Chaps 1-8)
Monday, 2/21 -- finish Hope Leslie
Wednesday, 2/23 -- Hope Leslie
FIRST FORMAL ESSAY
KATE PORTER'S ESSAY | JUSTIN MUTTER'S ESSAY
Friday, 2/25 -- read Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapters 1 - 13)
Monday, 2/28 -- read Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapters 14 - 22)
Wednesday, 3/1 -- read Uncle Tom's Cabin (Chapters 23 - 31)
Friday, 3/3 -- finish Uncle Tom's Cabin
Monday, 3/6 -- Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture
REVISION WRITING ASSIGNMENT
THIS WEEK WE'LL MEET IN CLEMONS 313
Our "texts" this week will include songs, illustrations, "Tomitudes," movie clips, and other indices of Americans' responses to Stowe's novel, in its time and up through the early 20th century. All these "texts" are available in the multi-media electronic archive I'm building called UNCLE TOM'S CABIN & AMERICAN CULTURE, and you'll be "reading" them through the web. Please feel free to check out the whole site, but the specific texts I want you to read|look at|listen are listed as links right here. For the first of these three classes you'll be reading newspaper and magazine reviews and stories from 1852 to 1857:
Wednesday, 3/8 -- UTC & AMERICAN CULTURE (continued)
Stowe's novel was something Americans saw and heard as well as read. For this class you'll be looking at and listening to some examples of that, still from the 1850s. These links will open up a new browser window that you'll have to close to come back to this list:
Friday, 3/10 -- MIDTERM ASSIGNMENT
UTC & AMERICAN CULTURE "concluded"
Stowe's novel was also something Americans saw enacted. From 1853 to the early 20th century, in fact, it was unquestionably the single most frequently produced stage show. The links below will give you an idea of how the story made the transition, first to the stage, then to movies. One question I want you to keep in mind as you look at this material is: what do these later transformations help us appreciate about the novel itself? As before, these links open up a new browser window that you'll have to close to come back to this list:
SPRING BREAK
Monday, 3/20 -- read The Scarlet Letter (Chapters 1 - 8)
GOOD QUESTIONS!
Wednesday, 3/22 -- read The Scarlet Letter (Chapters 9 - 20)
Friday, 3/24 -- finish The Scarlet Letter
FOURTH WRITING ASSIGNMENT
Monday, 3/27 -- The Scarlet Letter
Wednesday, 3/29 -- read The American (Chapters 1 - 12)
Friday, 3/31 -- read The American (Chapters 13 - 20)
Monday, 4/3 -- finish The American
Wednesday, 4/5 -- The American
SECOND FORMAL ESSAY
MAGGIE GUGGENHEIMER'S ESSAY
Friday, 4/7 -- read Connecticut Yankee (Chapters 1 - 23)
Monday, 4/10 -- Connecticut Yankee (Chapters 24 - 38)
Wednesday, 4/12 -- finish Connecticut Yankee
Friday, 4/14 -- Connecticut Yankee
Monday, 4/17 -- read The Awakening (Chapters 1 - 28)
Wednesday, 4/19 -- finish The Awakening
Friday, 4/21 -- The Awakening
Monday, 4/24 -- read The Conjure Woman (First 4 Stories)
Wednesday, 4/26 -- finish The Conjure Woman
Friday, 4/28 -- The Conjure Woman
THIRD FORMAL ESSAY
Monday, 5/1 -- last class
Thursday, 5/11 -- 9-12 a.m., FINAL EXAM