LIT Project Custom Essay

Project Instructions will be upload. Below are course topics:

Week 1:

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca

Samuel de Champlain, from Voyages of Samuel de Champlain: The Voyages of 1604-1607

Christopher Columbus, Report of the First Voyage

John Smith, from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, Chapter II: What Happened Till the First Supply

Week 2:

William Bradford, from Of Plymouth Plantation, Book I & Book II

Puritanism

Anne Bradstreet, Contemplations

Puritanism, Indians and Witchcraft

Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Edward Taylor, Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children

Cotton Mather, from Bonifacius: Essays to Do Good

The South and the Middle Colonies

St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer, What is an American?

Week 3:

Reason and Revolution, Part 1

Reason and Revolution

Benjamin Franklin, Speech in the [Constitutional] Convention at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations

Benjamin Franklin, from Information to Those Who Would Remove to America

Thomas Paine, from Common Sense

Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African

Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Biography

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature/Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature/Phillis Wheatley

Phillis Wheatley (1753 – 1784)

Week 4:

The Romantic the Real and the American Indian

Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle

The Romantic, the Real, and the American Indian

James Fenimore Cooper: “Author Bio”—220

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter I

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter III

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers — Chapter IV

Week 5:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ode to Beauty

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Waldeinsamkeit

Transcendentalism, Women, and Social Ideas

Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Visitors

Henry David Thoreau, Walden — Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors

Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

Week 6:

The Romantics

Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to The House of the Seven Gable

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Ambitious Guest

Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener

The Fireside Poets

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My Lost Youth

Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old Ironsides

Oliver Wendell Holmes: My Aunt

Week 7:

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Chapter VII: The Mother’s Struggle

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Chapter XIX: Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions, Continued

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Chapter XL: The Martyr

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Chapter XLI: The Young Master

Slave Narratives

Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Week 8:

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Preface

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter I

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter VI

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter VII

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Chapter XI

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