Tentative Readings and Schedule for 8:7500 Fall 2019
Week 1 August 26-28
M August 26th introduction; handouts on syllabus and assignments
W August 28th Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Week 2 September 4
M Labor Day
W Harriet Wilson, Our Nig
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Week 3 September 9-11
M Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
W Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
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Week 4 September 16-18
M Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills
W Hamlin Garlin, 3 stories from Main Travelled Roads
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Week 5 September 23-25
M John Ruskin, selections from Modern Painters
W selections from Modern Painters
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Week 6 September 30, October 2
M Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty,” “Binsey Poplars,” “Hurrahing in Harvest,” “Duns Scotus’s Oxford,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” “Spring and Fall”
W William Morris, “The Beauty of the Earth,” “The Society of the Future”
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Week 7 October 7-9
M John Muir, selections from The Mountains of California
W slides of Pre-Raphaelite Art, images of the Hudson River School
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Week 8 October 14-16
M William Morris, News from Nowhere, chapters 1-10
W News from Nowhere, chapters 11-20
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Week 9 October 21-23
M News from Nowhere, to end
W Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
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Week 10 October 28-30
M Looking Backward
W Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
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Week 11 November 4-6
Poems on war by Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Isaac Rosenberg, German soldiers of the period
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
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Week 12 November 18-20
M Testament of Youth
W ________
Or: alternate schedule
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Week 13 November 4-6
M Mark Twain, The War Prayer, poems by Carl Sandberg and H. D.
W Ernest Hemingway, 3 stories from In Our Time
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Week 14 November 11-13
M Susan Glaspell, The Inheritors
W _________
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Week 15 November 18-20
If time permits, M Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm
W Story of an African Farm
Title and brief abstract due by the Friday of Thanksgiving week, November 29th. __________________________________________________________________________
Thanksgiving week __________________________________________________________________________
Week 16 December 2-4
M Helen Hunt Jackson, Ramona
W Ramona, first presentations on final papers
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Final exam meeting Tuesday December 10th
Presentations on final papers
Submission of final 15+ page essay by the Friday of exam week, December 13th