DOROTHY BERRSON                                             
ENGLISH 312
LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE

                     THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Texts

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Essays (Penguin)
Margaret Fuller, The Woman and the Myth (The Feminist Press)
Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Norton)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (New American Library)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (Penguin)
Linda Brent, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (New American Library)
Louisa May Alcott, Work (Schocken)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (New American Library)
Emily Dickinson, Complete Poems (Little, Brown)

Requirements

Journal; one short paper (5-6 pages); one longer paper (8-10
pages); one final examination.

Course Outline

Week 1
     January 9       Introduction and Organization
     January 11      Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

Week 2
     January 14      Fuller, from The Woman and the Mvth:
                     1-4, pp. 30-34; 14, p. 57; 1-6, pp. 84-90;
                     23-29, pp. 121-131; 13, pp. 239-265
     January 16      Handouts on Emerson and Fuller
     January 18      Moby Dick

Week 3
     January 21-25 Moby Dick

Week 4
     January 28 -
     February 1      Uncle Tom's Cabin

Week 5
     February 4-8    The Scarlet Letter
     FIRST PAPER DUE

Week 6
     February 11-15  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Week 7
     February 18-22 Walden

Week 8
     Feb. 25 - March 1 Work

Week 9
     March 4-8      Whitman, from Leaves of Grass
                     "Song of Myself," pp. 49-74
                     "Scented Herbage of My Breast," p. 112
                     "Eighteen Sixty-One," p. 233
                     "The Wound-Dresser," p. 252
Week 10
     March 11-15    Dickinson, from Complete Poems
                     49 I Never Lost as much but twice
                    102 Great Caesar!
                    106 The Daisy follows soft the Sun
                    199 I'm Wife--I've finished that
                    214 I taste a liquor never brewed--
                    219 She sweeps with many--Colored Brooms
                    249 Wild Nights
                    241 I Like a Look of Agony
                    288 I'm Nobodyl Who are you?
                    303 The Soul Selects her own Society
                    315 He fumbles at your Soul
                    327 Before I got my eye put out
                    271 A Solemn thing--it was--I said
                    328 A Bird Came down the Walk--
                    365 Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
                    401 What Soft--Cherubic Creatures
                    435 Much Madness is divinest sense--
                    494 Going to Him/Her! Happly letterl
                    441 This is my letter to the World.
                    465 I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--
                    479 She dealt her pretty words like Blades
                    528 Mine--by the Right of the White Electionl
                    579 I had been hungry, All the Years--
                    601 A still--Volcano--life
                    613 They shut me up in Prose
                    670 One need not be a Chamber--to be Haunted--
                    712 Because I could not stop for Death--
                    754 My Life had stood--a Loaded Gun--
                    824 The Wind begun to knead the Grass
                   1129 Tell All the Truth but tell it Slant--
                   1677 On my volcano grows the grass
                   1737 Rearrange a "Wife's" Affection!
                           SECOND PAPER DUE
Week 11
     March 18        Review