EH 2303 -- CALENDAR

EH 2303 Semester Calendar

Mrs. Beverly Pace

Weeks 1 - 5 Introduction to American literature

• Colonial literature - early writings
• Anne Bradstreet
• Reason and Revolution
• Jonathan Edwards
• Benjamin Franklin 
• Thomas Paine
• Philip Freneau
• Exam I

Weeks 6 - 10

• Nature and Society
• Washington Irving
• James Fenimore Cooper
• William Cullen Bryant
• Humanitarian Sensibility
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• John Greenleaf Whittier
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Exam II

Weeks 11 - 14

• Transcendentalism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry David Thoreau
• Romanticism
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Exam III

Week 15 Thanksgiving break

Weeks 16-17

• Review, Final Part one
• Final Part two