ELIT 48B Reading/Assignment ScheduleREADING SCHEDULE FOR ELIT 48B--AMERICAN LITERATURE
Tuesday, January 6--
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (1-14)
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself (1881)" (Handout)
Wednesday, January 7--
Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself (1881)" (Handout)
Thursday, January 8—
Emily Dickinson, Poems (Handout)
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer” (111-113)
Monday, January 12--
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters 1-18)
Tuesday, January 13—
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters 19-27)
Wednesday, January 14—
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters 28-35)
Thursday, January 15—
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Chapters 36-the last)
Tuesday, January 20—
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (18-22)
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (918-931, 935-938)
Wednesday, January 21—
Emily Dickinson Explication Due
W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (945-958)
W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Song of the Smoke” (965-966)
Thursday, January
22--
Charles Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth” (143-150)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Poetry (170-177)
Monday, January 26—
William Dean Howells, “The Editor’s Study” (253-254)
William Dean Howells, “Criticism and Fiction” (254-257)
Hamlin Garland, “Up the Coule” (466-495)
Tuesday, January 27—
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham (Handout)
Wednesday, January 28—
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (22-24)
Zitkala Sa, The School Days of an Indian Girl (859-867)
Tuesday, February 3—
Jack London, “South of the Slot” (533-543)
Wednesday, February 4-Monday, February 9—
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage [Poetry (528-531)?]
Tuesday, February 10—
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (14-18)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (608-619)
Wednesday, February 11—
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “The Revolt of ‘Mother’” (757-767)
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (26-28)
Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (Handout)
Thursday, February 12--
Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron” (723-730)
Tuesday, February 17—
Sarah Orne Jewett, “The Foreigner” (730-748)
Wednesday, February 18-Thursday, February 19--
Henry James, Daisy Miller: A Study (280-319)
Monday, February 23--
Introduction, "Late Nineteenth Century 1865-1910" (29-34)
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (637-650)
Wednesday, February 25—
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie (Handout)
Thursday, February 26—
Abraham Cahan, “A Sweat-Shop Romance” (Handout)
Carl Sandburg, “Chicago” (Handout)
Monday, March 1—
Ellen Glasgow, “The Professional Instinct” (1000-1010)
Tuesday, March 2--
Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case” (Handout)
Wednesday, March 3-Monday, March 8—
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (368-459)
Tuesday, March 9--
Edith Wharton, “Souls Belated” (1013-1031)
Wednesday, March 10--
Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever” (1067-1076)
Thursday, March 11—
Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1110-1119)
Monday, March 15—
Robert Frost, Poetry (1127-1140) (And Handout)
Tuesday, March 16—
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poetry (89-998) (And Handout)
John Swensson, Guest teacher
Wednesday, March 17—
Robert Frost, Poetry
“Design,” “Birches,” and “For Once, Then Something”
Carolyn Keen, Guest teacher
Thursday, March 18—
Robert Frost, Poetry
“Home Burial,” “Fire and Ice,” and others
Jill Quigley, Guest Teacher
Monday, March 22—
Robert Frost, Poetry
Review
Thursday, March 25—
Final Exam in this room from 11:30 to 1:30
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