Course Schedule
August 26 |
Course Introduction |
August 28 |
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative…, I-II |
August 31 |
Equiano, III-IV |
September 2 |
Equiano, V-VI |
September 4 |
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, “The Dance” & “The Horse Swap” |
September 7 |
Labor Day |
September 9 |
Thomas Gray, “Confessions of Nat Turner” |
September 11 |
John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn, XVII-XIX |
September 14 |
William & Ellen Craft, Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom, I |
September 16 |
Craft, II |
September 18 |
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass, 1-46 |
September 21 |
Douglass, 46-79 |
September 23 |
Douglass, 79-125 |
September 25 |
No class |
September 28 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, I-IX |
Jezebel, 7 pm at Cox Capital Theater |
September 30 |
Stowe, X-XVIII |
October 2 |
Stowe, XIX-XXVII |
October 5 |
Stowe, XXVIII-XXXVI |
October 7 |
Stowe, XXXVII-XLV |
October 9 |
Caroline Lee Hentz, The Planter’s Northern Bride, I-II |
October 10 |
Visit to Jarrell Plantation |
October 12 |
Augusta Jane Evans, Macaria, XXX-XXXVI |
October 14 |
William Wells Brown, Clotel, I-VIII |
October 16 |
Fall Break |
October 19 |
Lamar lecture 7:30 |
October 20 |
Lamar lectures 10:00 and 7:30 |
October 21 |
No class |
October 23 |
Brown, IX-XIX |
October 26 |
Brown, XX-XXIX |
October 28 |
Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 19-56 |
October 30 |
Twain, 56-91 |
November 2 |
Twain, 92-128 |
November 4 |
Twain, 128-167 |
November 6 |
No Class |
November 9 |
Thomas Nelson Page, “Marse Chan” |
November 11 |
Joel Chandler Harris, “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” |
November 13 |
Mark Twain, “The United States of Lyncherdom” |
November 16 |
Thomas Dixon, The Clansman, I |
November 18 |
Dixon, II |
November 20 |
Dixon, III |
November 23 |
Dixon, IV |
November 25 |
Thanksgiving Break |
November 27 |
Thanksgiving Break |
November 30 |
Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition, I-VII |
December 2 |
Chesnutt, VIII-XIV |
Paper abstracts due |
December 4 |
Chesnutt, XV-XXI |
December 7 |
Chesnutt, XXII-XXVIII |
December 9 |
Chesnutt, XXIX-XXXVII |
December 11 |
Writing Workshop |
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