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Jan 12

Course Introduction Overview of Realism/Naturalism Period: Its Definitions, Historical and Cultural Contexts, and Key Figures

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Jan 19

Primary Texts:
-Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
-Harriet Prescott Spofford's "Circumstance"”
-Twain, “The Notorious Jumping Frog on Calaveras County” and "Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”
-Louisa May Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats”
-Supplemental Texts: Shi, Chapters 1 and 2
-Discussion Leader

-Oral Report: Matthew Brady (Caley)

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Jan 26

-Primary Text: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

-Supplemental from Norton: 1) Fisher Fishkin's "Was Huck Black" 2) Morrison's "This Amazing, Troubling Book"

3) Stephen Railton’s Website
4) Shi, Chapter 3

-Discussion Leader:  Michelle
-Oral Report: “Photography” – its role beyond the Civil War (Steven)
 -Short Paper Due on Twain

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Feb 2

Primary Text: The Rise of Silas Lapham and excerpt from Criticism and Fiction (handout)
-Supplemental from Norton Critical Edition
1)  G. Thomas Tanselle's "The Architecture of The Rise of Silas Lapham"
2) C. Hugh Holman's "Of Everything the Unexplained and Irresponsible Specimen: Notes on How to Read American Realism"

3) Edwin Cady "The Chief American Realist"
4) Shi, Chapter 4

Discussion Leader: Rachel

-Oral Report:  (Topic: "Howells as Editor)--(Michelle)
-Short Papers Due on Howells

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Feb 9

-Primary Text: The Bostonians  
-Supplemental Texts: “The Art of Fiction" and "Feminist Sources in The Bostonians" (available through MLA) and Shi, Chapter 5

-Discussion Leader: Caley 

Oral Report: (Topic: Victoria Woodhull)

-Short Papers Due on James

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Feb 16

 -Primary Text: Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”; Freeman’s “Old Woman Mangoun” Jewett’s “The Foreigner”:; Zitakla-Sa’s “Impressions of an Indian Childhood;” Garland’s “Under the Lion’s Paw”
-Supplemental: Regionalism and Local Color Fiction selection from Donna Campbell's website and Shi, Chapter 6
-Discussion Leader: Steven
Oral Report:  (Topic: World's Fair) -- (Rachel)
***Short Papers Due on ONE of the short stories for today

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Feb 23

-Primary Text: Puddn’head Wilson
-Supplemental from Norton Critical Edition:
1) Gillman's "'Sure Identifiers," pp.445-464
2) Rowe's "Fatal Speculations," pp. 426-445
3) Shi, Chapter 7
-Discussion Leader: Joel 

Oral Report: (Topic: Darwinism)-- (Leanna)
***Short Papers Due on Puddn'head

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Mar 2

-Primary Texts: Maggie, “The Blue Hotel,” “An Episode of War,” “The Open Boat” and London “To Build a Fire”
-Supplemental Texts:
-Joseph Brennan's "Ironic and Symbolic Structure in Crane's Maggie"
-Shi, Chapter 8
-Discussion Leader: Leanna

-Oral Report: Realism and Architecture -- (Joel) 
***Short Paper Due on Crane or London
NOTE: A Paper Prospectus for your longer paper will be due to me via email Friday March 12. 

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Mar 9

Primary Text: The Awakening  

Supplemental Text:
1) Nancy Walker's "Feminist or Naturalist," pp. 252-256
2) Cynthia Griffin Woolf's "Thanatos and Eros," pp. 231-241
3) Shi, Chapter 9
--Discussion Leader: Kim
-Oral Report:  (Women’s Movement / “New Woman”) -- (Rebecca)
***Short Paper Due on Chopin

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Mar 10

Last day to withdraw from a spring semester course.  (Automatic N grade is issued.)  Students may not withdraw from a course after this date without documented extenuating circumstances. Last day to rescind elected S/U option.  A rescinded S/U will still count toward the maximum of four allowed.

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Mar 16

Spring Break

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Mar 23

-Primary Text: McTeague
-Supplemental from Norton Critical Edition: 
1)Lawlor's "Naturalism in the Cinema," pp. 389-395.
2) Pizer's  "Late Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism," pp. 306-311
3) Shi, Chapter 10
Discussion Leader:  Melissa
Oral Report: Frontier/Closing of the Frontier—Turner -- (Christina)
***Short Paper Due on Norris
Note: Paper Conferences will be held this week to discuss prospectus and research plan. 

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Mar 30

-Primary Text: Sister Carrie
-Supplemental from Norton Critical Edition:
1) Fisher's "The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City," pp.497-509
2) Gelfant's "What More Can Carrie Want?" pp.554-573
3) Shi, Chapter 11
-Discussion Leader: Christina

Oral report: Role of the theatre -- (Melissa)

***Short Paper Due on Dreiser
Annotated Bibliographies Due

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Apr 6

-Primary Text: The House of Mirth
-Supplemental from Norton Critical Edition:
1) Ammons's "Edith Wharton's Hard-Working Lily," pp. 345-357
2) R.W. B. Lewis's "The House of Mirth Biographically," pp. 339-345
3) Shi, Chapter 12

-Discussion Leader Whitney

Oral Report: Clothing Trends -- (Kim)

***Short Paper Due on Wharton

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Apr 13

Primary Texts:

-Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk and Chapter 1 “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” and Chapter III, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” 

Booker T. Washington from Up from Slavery, Chapter XIV, “The Atlanta Exposition Address” 

Charles Chesnutt: “The Goophered Grapevine” 1899 and “The Passing of Grandison” 1899

Paul Laurence Dunbar  “Frederick Douglass,” “An Ante-Bellum Sermon,” “We Wear the Mask,” “When Malindy Sings” (1896) and Howells' Review

-Shi, Chapter 13
-Discussion Leader:

-Oral Report: Armory Show -- (Whitney)

***Short Paper Due on one of works for today

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Apr 20

Course Evaluations
Final Long Papers Due--Paper Presentations
Exam Review

The Final Exam is scheduled for Friday, April 30, 6:30 pm. Winthrop University policy does not accept travel plans or work schedules as reasons to reschedule a final examination. 

***NOTE: I HAVE LISTED DUE DATES FOR THE SHORT PAPERS THROUGHOUT THE SEMESTER; HOWEVER, REMEMBER YOU NEED TO COMPLETE ONLY 3 OF THEM, AND THEY NEED TO REPRESENT AT LEAST 2 DIFFERENT AUTHORS.