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SEPTEMBER

W. 18^th Introduction to the course. American life in the early 19^th century.

M. 23^rd Norton, pp. 919 - 931; also, Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

W. 25^th Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" and "Rappaccini's Daughter."

M. 30^th Test #1. Emerson, biography, "Uriel," "Hamatreya."

OCTOBER

W. 2^nd Emerson, "Self-Reliance," "The American Scholar."

M. 7^th Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado."

W. 9^th Poe, "The Purloined Letter," "The Masque of the Red Death," + poem, "The City in the Sea."

M. 14^th Test #2. Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."

W. 16^th Finish Jacobs. Thorpe, "The Big Bear of Arkansas."

M. 21^st Emerson's essay, "Thoreau." Also, Thoreau, "Walking."

W. 23^rd Thoreau, the "Economy" chapter of Walden, pp. 1768-1810.

M. 28^th Test #3. Miscellaneous poems, [to be announced on Th. 21st.]

W. 30^th Melville, biography. Begin Billy Budd, pages to be announced. 4th-hour Projects are due today.

NOVEMBER

M. 4^th Melville, Billy Budd.

W. 6^th Whitman, biography. "Song of Myself."

M. 11^th Veterans Day – no class.

W. 13^th Test #4. Dickinson, biography and selected poems.

M. 18^th More selected Dickinson poems.

W. 20^th Melville, "A Paradise of Bachelors" and "A Tartarus of Maids."

M. 25^th Summing-up lecture, and looking ahead to Realism, Naturalism, Modernism.