ELIT 48A: American Literature Beginnings to 1864

Course Syllabus

Schedule of Assignments

Supplemental Research Assignment

Short Essay Assignment

Sample short essay

Longer Essay

What is Literary Analysis?

Lecture 1: First Contact

Iroquois Creation Story

Lecture 2: Columbus and De las Casas

Lecture 3: How to Analyze Meter

Lecture 4: Calvinism

Lecture 5: Revolution, Franklin, Paine

Lecture 6: Last of the Mohicans

Lecture 6: Hawthorne and Literary Romanticism

Lecture 7: Transcendentalism

Lecture 8: Slavery

Lecture 9: Douglass

Lecture 11: Poe 

Image: Fuseli, “The Nightmare”

Phrenology chart

Montressor family coat of arms

Lecture and discussion 12: "Bartleby" Point of View

Lecture 13: Benito Cereno

Lecture 14: First Wave Feminism

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