Calendar:
Week One
T: Introduction to course. Read syllabus. Choose presentations.
Th: Crosscurrents: Freedom in the Gilded Age.
Week Two
T: William Dean Howells: Editha (371)
Th: Begin reading Henry James: Daisy Miller (383-393)
Week Three
T: Sarah Orne Jewett: A White Heron (529) and continue Daisy Miller (394-404)
Th: Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour and finish Daisy Miller.
Week Four
T: Crosscurrents: Prosperity and Social Justice (663)
Th: Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (686) and begin reading Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (706-716)
Week Five
T: Finish Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Robert Frost: Mending Wall; The Road Not Taken; The Hill Wife. Begin discussing Essay #1
Th: Willa Cather: Neighbour Rosicky and Edward Arlington Robinson: Richard Cory; Miniver Cheevy; Mr. Flood's Party; The Mill; New England
Week Six
T: Rough Drafts due. Discuss Carl Sandburg: Gone and Amy Lowell: Patterns
Th: Essay due. Review for Exam.
Week Seven
T: Exam #1
Th: Crosscurrents: The Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance and introduce Langston Hughes.
Week Eight
T: Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues; Song for a Dark Girl; Trumpet Player; from Montage of a Dream Deferred; Feet Live Their Own Life
Th: Richard Wright: A Five Dollar Fight (1245) Begin reading Tennessee Williams: A Glass Menagerie (1270-1280)
Spring Break
Week Nine
T: F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited (1144) and Williams (1280-1291)
Th: Finish Menagerie. Rough Draft Essay 2
Week Ten
T: Essay #2 due.Begin discussing Crosscurrents: The Age of Anxiety
Th: Continue discussing Age of Anxiety. Bernard Malamud: The Mourners
Week Eleven
T: James Baldwin: Sonny's Blues, Allen Ginsberg: Howl
Th: John Ashbery: The Painter, Anne Sexton: Her Kind; With Mercy for the Greedy and Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck
Week Twelve
T:
Th: Philip Roth: The Conversion of the Jews (1671)
Week Thirteen
T: Louise Erdrich: The Red Convertible
Th: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel the Fool
Week Fourteen
T:
Th: Jhumpa Lahiri: The Third and Final Continent, discuss Essay Two
Week Fifteen
T: Essay Two due and Review for Finall
Th: Review for Final
Week Sixteen
T: FINAL
8/24/2017 Revised by Rochelle Gregory