Resources

Presentations

Paper 1 Wrap-Up of Pitfalls of Format, Grammar, and Style: Powerpoint version, Text document version

Handouts Distributed in Class

9/20 Melville's Typee: Passages for Discussion I

9/25 Melville's Typee: Passages for Discussion II

9/29 From The Columbian Orator, I: Dialogue Between a Master and a Slave

9/29: From The Columbian Orator, II: Arthur O'Connor's Speech in the Irish Parliament

10/18: Webb's Garies: Passages for Discussion I

10/27: Webb's Garies: Passages for Discussion II

10/30: Guide to Basic English Prosody

11/1: Letters Between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

11/10: Wharton's House of Mirth: Passages for Discussion I

11/13: Wharton's House of Mirth: Passages for Discussion II

11/15: Theories of Realism: An Overview

12/11: Final Exam Overview

Quizzes

10/25: Quiz on Garies: Answers

E-Texts

Bryant - The Prairies

Whitman - Leaves of Grass 1860 (electronic reserve version)

Whitman - Leaves of Grass (version of "Song of Myself" in Connaroe)

Whitman - Civil War poetry (selections in Connaroe)

Whitman - Civil War poetry (selections not in Connaroe)

Melville - Typee

Melville - Civil War poetry

Douglass - Narrative of the Life

Webb - The Garies and Their Friends

Dickinson - Poems (selections in Connaroe)

Dickinson - Poems (selections not in Connaroe)

Wharton - House of Mirth

Hughes - n/a

Stevens - Poems

Morrison - n/a