Professor Rachel S. Cordasco
Lecture: TR 9:30-10:45am in Psychology 113
Email: cordasco AT wisc DOT edu
Office: 6191 Helen C. White Hall
Office Hours: T 12:00-2:00pm, Espresso Royale (650 State St)
Teaching Assistants: Paul Hansen, Emily Madsen, Kevin Mullen, Christopher Rogers
I. Colonies & Nation
| Week 1 | |
| R 9/2 |
Welcome & Course Introduction Ginsberg, "America" (e-reserves) |
| Week 2 | |
| T 9/7 |
Columbus, Letters (Norton 25-28) Cabeza de Vaca, "The Relation" (Norton 30-36) |
| R 9/9 |
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation (Norton 58-75) Bradstreet, Poems (Norton 98-117) |
| Week 3 - Response paper due in section (1-2 pgs) | |
| T 9/14 |
Franklin, The Autobiography Part I (Norton 231-76) |
| R 9/16 |
Franklin, The Autobiography Part II (Norton 276-92) |
| Week 4 | |
| T 9/21 |
Franklin, "Remarks Concerning the Savages" (Norton 226-30) selection from McCullough, John Adams (e-reserves) |
| R 9/23 |
Wheatley, Poems (Norton 420-29) |
| Week 5 | |
| T 9/28 |
Hawthorne, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," "The Maypole of Merry-Mount"(Norton 592-605; 615-22) |
| R 9/30 |
Emerson, "American Scholar" (Norton 520-32) |
II. Land & Freedom
| Week 6 | |
| T 10/5 |
Douglass, Narrative of the Life (Norton 924-56) |
| R 10/7 |
Douglass, Narrative of the Life (Norton 956-88) |
| Week 7 | |
| T 10/12 |
Midterm |
| R 10/14 |
Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (Norton 1093-1118) |
| Week 8 | |
| T 10/19 |
Whitman: "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," "Facing West from California's Shores," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" (Norton 1057, 1057-62, 1071-77) |
| R 10/21 |
de Burton, The Squatter and the Don (Ch. I-VI) |
| Week 9 - Paper 1 (3-5 pgs) due in section | |
| T 10/26 |
de Burton, The Squatter and the Don (Ch.VII-XXIII) |
| R 10/28 |
de Burton, The Squatter and the Don (Ch. XXIV- Conclusion) |
III. Immigration, Imperialism, & War
| Week 10 | |
| T 11/2 |
Twain: selections from Innocents Abroad, "To the Person Sitting in Darkness" (e-reserves) |
| R 11/4 |
Crane, "The Blue Hotel" (Norton 1795-1814) Far, "In the Land of the Free" (Norton 1721-1727) |
| Week 11 | |
| T 11/9 |
Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (Bk. I-VIII) |
| R 11/11 |
Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (Bk. IX-X) |
| Week 12 | |
| T 11/16 |
Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky (Bk. XI-End) |
| R 11/18 |
Kornbluth, "Two Dooms" (e-reserves) |
IV. Multicultural America
| Week 13 | |
| T 11/23 |
Alexie, selections (Norton 2851-2857) |
| R 11/25 |
NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING RECESS |
| Week 14- Paper 2 (5-7 pgs) due in section | |
| T 11/30 |
Wilson, Fences |
| R 12/2 |
Wilson, Fences |
| Week 15 | |
| T 12/7 |
Ng, Bone (Ch. 1-7) |
| R 12/9 |
Ng, Bone (Ch. 8-10) |
| Week 16 | |
| T 12/14 |
Ng, Bone (Ch. 11-14) |
| FINAL EXAM- Friday, December 17, 7:45 am; Location TBA | |