slave narrative, gothic and fiction -- that trace lines of revolutionary separation women’s or radical social transformation. Readings include Charles The Crisis; Autobiography; Tom Paine’s Benjamin Franklin’s gothic novel Wieland, or the Transformation; Brockden Brown’s Nat Turner’s Confessions; Autobiography; H.D. Thoreau’s “Life Without Principle”; Black Hawk’s and short works by Charles Chesnutt. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Harriet Jacobs’ Students will become familiar with selected literary critical works from relevant fields: especially African-American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Marxist/historicist and post-structuralist literary theory. Three short (5pp) writing assignments and one class presentation will be directed toward the production of a prospectus and final writing project (12-15 pp). Creative writing and digital humanities students are welcome. Final projects will be designed in consultation with the professor. AREA: American Literature PERIOD: 18th/19th Centuries
slave narrative, gothic and women’s fiction -- that trace lines of revolutionary separation or radical social transformation. Readings include Tom Paine’s The Crisis; Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography; Charles Brockden Brown’s gothic novel Wieland, or the Transformation; Nat Turner’s Confessions; H.D. Thoreau’s “Life Without Principle”; Black Hawk’s Autobiography; Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and short works by Charles Chesnutt. Students will become familiar with selected literary critical works from relevant fields: especially African-American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Marxist/historicist and post-structuralist literary theory. Three short (5pp) writing assignments and one class presentation will be directed toward the production of a prospectus and final writing project (12-15 pp). Creative writing and digital humanities students are welcome. Final projects will be designed in consultation with the professor. AREA: American Literature PERIOD: 18th/19th Centuries
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