Lecture Notes 2017/2018

Term 1

Lecture 1 - Introduction

Lecture 2 - Sansay and the Haitian Revolution

Lecture 3 - Benito Cereno and the Haiti-US South Connection

Lecture 4 - Edgar Huntly and the Frontier

Lecture 5 - Joaquin Murieta, Indian Removal, and the Mexican-American War

Lecture 7 - Mark Twain, Puddn'head Wilson, and Racial Melodrama

Lecture 8 - Harriet Jacobs and Writing Back to Sentimentalism

Lecture 9 - Dunbar, Chesnutt, Page and the Plantation Romance

Term 2

Lecture 1 - Rebecca Harding Davis, Slavery, and the Industrial Revolution

Lecture 2 - House of Mirth and the Marriage of Finance

Lecture 3 - Daisy Miller and the Making of the American Girl

Lecture 4 - Ragged Dick and The Making of the Slum

Lecture 5 - Marrow of Tradition and the Minstrel Tradition and quotesheet