{"id":19186,"date":"2012-09-12T13:42:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19186"},"modified":"2012-09-12T13:42:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:42:11","slug":"topics-in-american-studies-2-american-non-fiction-writing-1580-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19186&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Topics in American Studies 2: American Non-Fiction Writing, 1580-1880"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: Topics in American Studies 2: American Non-Fiction Writing, 1580-1880
Instructor: <\/strong>Prof. Douglas Ambrose (Fulbright Scholar)<\/span>
ECTS credits: <\/strong> 6<\/span>
Status<\/strong>: Elective<\/span>
Language: <\/strong>English<\/span>
Semester:<\/strong> 8th<\/sup><\/span>
Enrolment requirements:<\/strong> enrolment in the 8th<\/sup> semester<\/span><\/p>\n

COURSE PURPOSE<\/strong>: <\/b>This course provides an introduction to American history through various forms of non-fiction writing.\u00a0 Beginning with sixteenth-century English accounts of the New World, we will explore the development of certain themes and genres that came to characterize American non-fiction, including the jeremiad, the captivity narrative, social and physical mobility, \u201cmanifest destiny\u201d and providentialism, the slave narrative, nature writing, and the promise of \u201cthe west.\u201d\u00a0 We will follow a chronological narrative through American history, recognizing throughout the political and social contexts of the texts while paying close attention to the internal development of the genres to which they belong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

COURSE STRUCTURE<\/strong>: <\/b>\u00a0Students must complete the readings for the week prior to our Monday meetings.\u00a0 Each Monday meeting will begin with a brief quiz on that week\u2019s materials.\u00a0 Each student must bring the week\u2019s readings to class each week.\u00a0 Although I will occasionally lecture in order to situate the texts, class discussion of the readings will constitute the bulk of our meetings.\u00a0 A successful class requires the participation of all<\/b> students.\u00a0 Attendance, therefore, counts.\u00a0 Students may miss two classes without penalty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

COURSE REQUIREMENTS<\/strong>:\u00a0 In addition to regular attendance, preparation, and participation, students will write four short papers (500-750 words each) and one longer paper (2500 words).\u00a0 Beginning with Week 2 and continuing for every subsequent week through week 14, I will provide a question at the conclusion of Tuesday\u2019s meeting.\u00a0 Students will pick four of these questions to write on.\u00a0 Papers are always due the following Monday.\u00a0 I will not accept any late papers<\/i><\/b>, so choose wisely.\u00a0 For the final paper, the student will choose one of the genres we will focus on, read at least two secondary sources on and two additional primary sources from that genre, and write a paper that examines the historical and literary meanings of those texts. Final papers are due not later than 16:00 on 14 June.<\/span><\/p>\n

Course schedule:<\/strong><\/span>
Week 1<\/strong>: Envisioning America.\u00a0 Read Thomas Harriot, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia<\/i><\/a> (1588\/1590).<\/span>
Week 2<\/strong>: Planting a \u201cNew England.\u201d John Cotton, \u201cGod\u2019s Promise to His Plantation<\/a>\u201d (1630); John Winthrop, \u201cModel of Christian Charity<\/a>\u201d (1630).<\/span>
Week 3<\/strong>: Exhorting America: The Jeremiad and its Meanings.\u00a0 Read Samuel Danforth, New England\u2019s Errand into the Wilderness<\/i><\/a> (1670); Increase Mather, An Exhortation To the Inhabitants of New England<\/i><\/a> (1676).<\/span>
Week 4<\/strong>: Captivity, Identity, and Redemption.\u00a0 Read Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God<\/i><\/a> (1682).<\/span>
Week 5<\/strong>: The Beginnings of \u201cAmerican\u201d History.\u00a0 Read Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana<\/i><\/a> (1702); Robert Beverly, The History and Present State of Virginia<\/i><\/a> (1705).<\/span>
Week 6<\/strong>: Becoming American.\u00a0 Read Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography<\/i> <\/a>(1791).<\/span>
Week 7<\/strong>: The Transformation of Political Discourse.\u00a0 Read Thomas Paine, Common Sense <\/i><\/a>(1776); Samuel Sherwood, \u201cThe Church\u2019s Flight into the Wilderness<\/a>\u201d (1776).<\/span>
Week 8<\/strong>: <\/span>Explaining America. Hector St. John de Crevecour, Letters From an American Farmer<\/i><\/a> (1782): Read “Advertisement and Dedication,” Letter I, Letter III, and Letter IX<\/span><\/b>; Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia<\/i><\/a> (1787): Read “Front Matter,” Query 8, Query 11, Query 14, and Query 17<\/b>.<\/span><\/span>
Week 9<\/strong>: Exploring America.\u00a0 For William Bartram, Travels<\/i> <\/a>(1791), read Part IV, Chapters \u00a0I-VI<\/b><\/span>; For Lewis and Clark, Journals<\/i> <\/a>(1814), read July 30, 1804; August 25, 1804; September 24 & 25, 1804; October 8, 9, 10, 11, & 12, 1804; October 27, 1804; October 29, 1804; October 31, 1804; November 4, 1804.<\/b><\/span><\/span>
Week 10<\/strong>: Creating an American Identity.\u00a0 Read Noah Webster, \u201cOn the Education of Youth in America<\/a>\u201d (1788); Fisher Ames, \u201cAmerican Literature\u201d (1803), on Omega.<\/span>
Week 11<\/strong>: American Destiny.\u00a0 Read Lyman Beecher, A Plea for the West<\/i><\/a> (1832); John L. O\u2019Sullivan, \u201cThe Great Nation of Futurity<\/a>\u201d (1839). <\/span>
Week 12<\/strong>: The Beginnings of African American Political Writing. Read David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World<\/i><\/a>.<\/span>
Week 13<\/strong>: Narrating American Slavery and American Freedom. Read William Wells Brown, Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive <\/i>Slave<\/a> (1847); Josiah Henson, The Life of Josiah Henson . . . <\/i><\/a>(1849).<\/span>
Week 14<\/strong>: The \u201cOther America\u201d: The South. Read James Henley Thornwell, \u201cThe Christian Doctrine of Slavery\u201d (1850); Louisa McCord, \u201cWoman and Her Needs\u201d (1852); George Fitzhugh, \u201cSouthern Thought\u201d (1857), on Omega.<\/span>
Week 15<\/strong>: A New Birth: Postbellum America. Read Lincoln, \u201cSecond Inaugural Address<\/a>\u201d (1865); Horace Bushnell, \u201cOur Obligations to the Dead\u201d (1865) on Omega; Frederick Douglass, \u201cWhat the Black Man Wants<\/a>\u201d (1865); and \u201cOration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln<\/a>\u201d (1876)<\/span><\/p>\n

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