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Fem. Lit:
Ain't I A Woman
Susan B. Anthony writings
Declaration of Sentiments, Stanton
Address to NY State Legislature
Frost:
-Acquainted w/ the night
-Dust of Snow
-Mending Wall
-Stopping in the Woods
- Fragmentary Blue
-Not all there
Goldman:
-Anarchism and Other Essays
Gilman:
-The Manmade World
DuBois:
-The Souls of Black Folk
Hughes:
-Let America be America again
Stevens:
-Harmonium
Dr. K. Kramer and B. Santoro
Month One [Foundations]:
Common Sense [Thomas Paine 1776**], Sheffield Declaration [1773**]
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Months Two and Three [Early Am. Lit. Pt. 1: Poetry and Thought]:
2-Thanatopsis [William Cullen Bryant, 1811-1816?], Holmes & Longfellow***, Dickinson
3- Civil Disobedience [Thoreau 1849], Emerson**, Woman in the 19th Century [Fuller 1845**]
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Months Four and Five [Development Pt. 1]:
4- Uncle Tom’s Cabin [H.B. Stowe, 1852]*, The Hypocrisy [Douglass 1859]
5- Twelve Years a Slave [Northrup 1853]*/**, Linda Brent*
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Months Six and Seven [Development Pt. 2]:
6- The Scarlet Letter [Hawthorne 1850*], Leaves of Grass [Whitman 1855***],
7- H. Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener & Benito Sereno [1855]^, Feminist Lit.
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Month Eight [Twain]:
[The] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Twain 1884*], Essays of Twain
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Month Nine [Development Pt. 3, Turn of the Century Pt. 1]
The Voice of the City [O. Henry, 1908^], Country of the Pointed Firs [Jewett 1896*],
Hospital Sketches [Alcott 1863^]
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Month Ten [ToC Pt. 2 ]:
Annie Kilburn [Howells 1888*], Sister Carrie [Dreiser 1900*], Desiree’s Baby [Chopin 1893^]
Alt: The Awakening, Chopin.
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Month Eleven [ToC Pt. 3]:
Pragmatism [W. James 1907**], Old New York Novellas [Wharton 1924^], The Finer Grains^
[H. James 1878*]
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Month Twelve [ToC Pt. 4]:
The Jungle [Sinclair 1904*], Robert Frost***, Wars I Have Seen [Stein**], Winesburg, Ohio [Anderson 1919]
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Month Thirteen [Modernism Pt. 1: Introduction]:
Anna Christie [O’Neill 1921^^], The New Negro [Alain Locke 1925]
Dorothy Parker satire and poetry [Enough Rope 1926***]
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Month Fourteen [Modernism Pt. 2]:
Emma Goldman**, Charlotte Perkins Gilman^, W.E.B. Du Bois**, Jury of Her Peers [Glaspell 1917^]
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Month Fifteen Modernism Pt. 3: Poetry]
Spring and All [W.C.W.]/Hughes/Stevens, The People Yes, Bread and Roses
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Months Sixteen and Seventeen [Modernism Pt. 4 and 5, Post WWI]:
16- Main Street [Lewis 1920*], Our Town [Wilder 1938*]
17- Gatsby [Fitzgerald*], Passing [Larsen 1929*], Strange Fruit [Smith 1944*]
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Month Eighteen Hemingway]:
A Farewell To Arms [Hemingway 1929*], The Death of A Soldier [from Harmonium]
The Harp Weaver and Other Poems [Millay 1922]
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Month Nineteen [Hurston]
Their Eyes Were Watching God [Hurston 1937*], How it Feels to be Colored, Me [ZNH*]
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Month Twenty [Conclusion Pt. 1]
Native Son [Wright 1940*], Machinal [Treadwell 1928^^], The Waking [Roethke 1953***]
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Month Twenty-One [Conclusion Pt. 2]
Democracy and Education (Selections) [Dewey 1916***], The World is Round [Stein 1939^], Tell Me A Story [Warren***], Of Being Numerous Oppen***]
Key:
* -Novel
** -Essay
*** -Poem
^ -Short Story
^^ -Play
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