| lecture 1 |
Introduction & Puritans |
| lecture 2 |
John Winthrop and William Bradford |
| lecture 3 |
Anne Bradstreet |
| lecture 4 |
Benjamin Franklin (part 1) and the
Enlightenment |
| lecture 5 |
Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine |
| lecture 6 |
Olaudah Equino and Phillis Wheatley |
| lecture 7 |
Novels, Sentimentalism, and Charlotte |
| lecture 8 |
Charlotte, concluded; Judith
Sargent Murray |
| lecture 9 |
Telling American Stories,
part I: Washington Irving (1783-1859) and Catharine Sedgwick (1801-1864) |
| lecture 10 |
Telling
American Stories, part II: James Fenimore Cooper and Caroline
Kirkland |
| lecture 11 |
Edgar Allan Poe and Gothic narrative |
| lecture 12 |
Edgar Allan Poe, continued |
| lecture 13 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short fiction |
| lecture 14 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"Nature" |
| lecture 15 |
Emerson’s
essays: “The Divinity School Address," "The
Poet," and "Self Reliance." |
| lecture 16 |
Margaret Fuller |
| lecture 17 |
Henry David Thoreau, part I |
| lecture 18 |
Henry David Thoreau, part II |
| lecture 19 |
Frederick Douglass |
| lecture
20 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle
Tom's Cabin |
| lecture 21 |
Harriet Jacobs' Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl, Louisa May Alcott’s
"Transcendental Wild Oats" |
| lecture 22 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter, I |
| lecture
23 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter, continued |
| lecture
24 |
Herman Melville and Moby Dick |
| lecture 25 |
Walt Whitman, "Song of
Myself" |
| lecture 26 |
Walt Whitman, continued |
| lecture 27 |
Emily Dickinson, I |
| lecture 28 |
Emily Dickinson, II: major themes |
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