{"id":19166,"date":"2012-07-19T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2012-07-19T12:05:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T11:05:10","slug":"nineteenth-century-american-short-fiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19166&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Nineteenth-Century American Short Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong> <\/strong> Nineteenth-Century American Short Fiction<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
Undergraduate Elective<\/span>
Nineteenth-Century American Short Fiction<\/span>
Prof. Charles L. Crow<\/span>
Thursday 11:45-12:30, D-5<\/span>
Friday 2:45-4:15, A-123<\/span>
charleslcrow@yahoo.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements: regular attendance, and readings completed before class discussions. Two short essays of approximately 1000-1250 words each. Final examination.<\/span>
Note 1: I welcome enthusiastic class discussion, including constructive disagreement, and conversations continued after class, in my office, and by e-mail.<\/span>
Note 2: There may be some modification of this syllabus after the pace of the class is established.<\/span>
Note 3: Most of these stories are available on the internet. In some cases it may be necessary to provide a copy for duplication.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1. 8-9 March<\/span>
Introductions. Overview of periods, issues in 19th<\/sup> century American literature and culture. A few American paintings shown to illustrate trends and themes. Two brief folk tales from non-white cultures represent voices to be heard later in the semester.<\/span>
Charles Brockden Brown, “Somnambulism”<\/span>
Washington Irving, \u201cRip van Winkle\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2: 15-16 March<\/span>
The \u201cDark Romantics\u201d and their quarrel with Emerson.<\/span>
E. A. Poe, \u201cThe Cask of Amontillado,\u201d \u201cHop Frog.<\/span>
Nathanael Hawthorne, “Alice Doan’s Appeal.” \u201cYoung Goodman Brown.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3: 22-23 March<\/span>
From Romanticism to Realism<\/span>
Herman Melville, \u201cThe Bell Tower,\u201d “Bartleby the Scrivener”<\/span>
Rebecca Harding Davis, \u201cLife in the Iron Mills\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4: 29-30 March<\/span>
Harriet Prescott Spofford, \u201cCircumstance\u201d<\/span>
S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain) \u201cA True Story,\u201d selection from \u201cOld Times on the Mississippi.” “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5: 5-6 April<\/span>
Two anti-war stories by realist masters.<\/span>
Mark Twain, “The War Prayer”<\/span>
W. D. Howells, \u201cEditha\u201d<\/span>
Note: April 6 is Good Friday<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6: 12-13 April<\/span>
The “American Girl” and women’s regional realism<\/span>
Henry James, \u201cA Bundle of Letters\u201d<\/span>
M. E. Wilkins Freeman. \u201cThe Revolt of Mother,\u2019 \u201cA Church Mouse\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 7: 19-20 April<\/span>
Regional realism, continued<\/span>
Sarah Orne Jewett, \u201cA White Heron,\u201d \u201cThe Foreigner,\u201d “The Circus at Denby.”<\/span>
Joel Chandler Harris, \u201cThe Wonderful Tar Baby,\u201d “How Mr. Rabbit was too Sharp for Mr. Fox.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8: 26-27 April<\/span>
Race and the South<\/span>
Charles Chesnutt, \u201cThe Passing of Grandison\u201d \u201cThe Sheriff\u2019s Children,\u201d \u201cThe Dumb Witness\u201d<\/span>
Paul Laurence Dunbar, \u201cThe Lynching of Jube Benson\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9: 3-4 May<\/span>
Race and the South, continued<\/span>
Alice Dunbar Nelson, \u201cSister Josepha\u201d<\/span>
Grace King, \u201cThe Little Convent Girl\u201d<\/span>
George Washington Cable, “Jean-Ah Poquelin”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 10: 10-11 May <\/span>
Kate Chopin’s Louisiana: <\/span>
“D\u00e9sir\u00e9e\u2019s Baby,” “The Story of an Hour,” “The Storm,” “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” “A Respectable Woman,” “A Gentleman of Bayou Teche.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 11: 17-18 May<\/span>
Naturalism and beyond.<\/span>
Frank Norris, “A Deal in Wheat”<\/span>
Stephen Crane, \u201cThe Monster\u201d<\/span>
Jack London, \u201cTo Build a Fire,\u201d \u201cSouth of the Slot\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12: 24-25 May<\/span>
Willa Cather’s Nebraska:<\/span>
\u201cOld Mrs. Harris,\u201d \u201cNeighbor Rosicky\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 13: 31 May-1 June <\/span>
A feminist classic and a new voice.<\/span>
Charlotte Perkin’s Gilman, “The Yellow Wall-Paper”<\/span>
John M. Oskison, “The Problem of Old Harjo\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14: 7-8 June<\/span>
Thursday is Corpus Christi<\/span>
Theodore Dreiser, \u201cTyphoon\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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