Aug
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22 |
Course Introduction
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29
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Hurston, “Sweat” (and “Gilded Six-Bits”) (1926,
1933)
- Wall, Introduction: 3-19
- Chronology: 21-22
- Hurston, “Sweat”: 25-40
- Background to the Story: 43-134
- Hurston, "The Gilded Six-Bits": 135-46
- Hemenway, from ZNH: A Critical Biography:
149-52
- Jones, “Breaking Out of the Conventions of Dialect”:
153-68
- Walker, “Looking for Zora”: 211-30
Response Paper Due: List, Discussion of Works
Held in ERL: ZNH, STC, MWS
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Sept
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5
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Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1934)
- Washington, Foreword: ix-xvii
- Hurston, Their Eyes: 1-193
- Gates, Afterword: 195-205 (and Mekler "annotation")
- Washington, “I Love the Way Janie Crawford Left Her
Husbands”: (Sweat) 193-209
- Mekler, “‘Freedom Found Me’: Their Eyes Were
Watching God and the Slave Narrative Form”
Response Paper Due: Summary, discussion of
21st-century journal article on the novel
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12
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Manuscript Discussion
- Robinson, Introduction to The Original
Frankenstein (and The Frankenstein Notebooks)

- Robinson,"Editing and Contextualizing The
Frankenstein Notebooks"
- Romantic Digital Projects

- Shelley-Godwin Archives

- Hurston Archives (LoC)

- Hurston Archives (UF)

- Hurston Archives (UCF)

- NYPL Digital Coleridge

- BL Coleridge and The Ancient Mariner

Deadline to Select Author for Research/Oral
Presentation
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14
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Response Paper Due: Manuscript Assignment
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19
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Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (1798/1817)
- Fry, "Biographical and Historical Contexts": 3-24
- STC, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: 25-75
- Fry, "Critical History": 79-96
- Reader-Response Criticism: 97-130
- New Historicism: 168-219
- Deconstruction: 261-314
Response Paper Due
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26
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Shelley, Frankenstein (1831)
- Smith, "Biographical and Historical Contexts": 3-18
- MWS, Frankenstein: 19-189
- Smith, "Critical History": 267-99
- Psychoanalytic Criticism: 300-39
- Feminist Criticism: 340-80
Response Paper Due
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Oct
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3
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** Wellness Day: No Class **
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10
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Shelley, Frankenstein, cont.
- Gender Criticism: 381-445
- Marxist Criticism: 446-80
- Cultural Criticism: 481-529
- Postcolonial Criticism: 530-68
Response Paper Due |
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17
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Student Presentations
Response Paper Due: Secondary Source Annotation
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24
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Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (excerpt)
Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows (excerpt)
Research Paper Abstracts Due
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Nov |
31
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Working/Annotated
Bibliography Due
Final Deadline for Research Paper Abstracts
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7
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Research Paper Outline Due
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14 |
Discussion of Journals, Style Guidelines, Submission
Procedures, etc.
Response Paper Due
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21
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Initial Research Paper Draft Due |
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28
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Final Discussion of Papers
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Dec
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5
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Final Research Paper Due |
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11
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Last Day to Submit the Research Paper
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