Cathia Jenainati's Lectures

This page contains material I presented in previous years which may still be of interest to you.

Gender, Domesticity, and Ideologies of Private Life

Seneca Falls Convention 1848

Declaration of Sentiments

Sojourner Truth

Slavery in America (slave trade)

Marriage of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell under protest

Godey's Lady's Book

nathaniel Hawthorne, the scarlet letter (1850)

PMLA, Vol. 83, No. 5 (Oct. 1968), pp. 1439-1447

Charles Ryskamp, "The New England Sources of The Scarlet Letter", American Literature, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Nov. 1959), pp. 257-272

Erika M. Kreger, "Depravity Dressed up in a Fascinating Garb": Sentimental Motifs and the Seduced Hero(ine) in The Scarlet Letter, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Dec. 1999), pp. 308-335

Frank MacShane, The House of the Dead: Hawthorne's Custom House and The Scarlet Letter, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar. 1962), pp. 93-101

SERMONS

John Winthorpe, A Modell of Christian Charity (1630)

Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1740)

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

Online sources:

Timeline 1860-1869

The Library Congress: Slavery--The Peculiar Institution

Abolitionism in America

Selection of articles: article 1, article 2, article 3, article 4, article 5 (from JSTOR)

Powerpoint presentation from the lecture (November 2009) and the Word doc

Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition (1901)

Early African American Perspectives on the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898

John Merrick's speech on the race riots in Wilmington: brief excerpt or whole book

Black Codes, including Emancipation Proclamation

Americans of African Ancestry is an excellent essay offering a thoughtful and concise account of African-Americans' contributions to the literature and culture of the US in antebellum and post-bellum periods.

Harlem 1900-1940: An online exhibition

Herman Melville's "Paradise of bachelors, Tartarus of maids" (1855) and "Bartleby the Scrivener: a tale of Wall Street" (1853)

Powerpoint presentation of my lecture

Here's the text of Emerson's lecture "The Transcendentalist"

Here's the link to the article on Bartleby and Thoreau that I mentioned in the lecture: Egbert S. Oliver, "A second Look at 'Bartleby'" in College English, Vol. 6, No. 8 (May, 1945), pp. 431-439 <Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/370322>

Seneca falls