Term 1
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Preparation (Book of commonplace) |
1.1 Individuation in the time of revolt: Introductory Workshop |
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1.2 Individuation in the time of revolt: First Nations Film Screening on Monday 17:00 in A0.23, Social Studies "Bury My Heart in Wounded Knee" |
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1.3 Individuation in the time of revolt: Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland (1798) Film Screening on Monday 17:00 in A0.23 "Last of the Mohicans" |
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1.4 Individuation in the time of revolt: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) Film Screening on Monday 17:00 in A0.23 "Huckleberry Finn" |
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1.5 Individuation in the time of revolt: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852) | Optional additional reading Emerson, "The Transcendentalist" (1842) Read chapter 4 of Roberta Weldon's Book, Hawthorne, Gender and Death, titled: "From Melancholy to Mourning" and available through the Warwick Library as an e-book. There is a vast selection of critical essays on JSTOR which you may wish to consult. The early essays (1950s-170s) are not as satisfactory as the later ones. You will also note that many critics have read this novel in comparison with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure or Hamlet. Elizabeth Dill, "Angel of the House, Ghost of the Commune" is a thought-provoking essay on the representation of Zenobia in this novel. Accessed through the Library's LION database.
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READING WEEK |
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1.7 Conflicts of gender, race, class: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) |
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1.8 Conflicts of gender, race, class: Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall (1854) |
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1.9 Conflicts of gender, race, class: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (c. 1860) |
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1.10 End of term test | the test will take place during your seminar slot. |