Prepare a project that analyzes the meaning and importance of early American literature.Explain how the fiction and drama of the pre-Civil War (wk 5 on reading list) period relates to earlier literary works. Explain early American literature’s significance to the colony and to the nation in the periods studied. This may have changed over time and may vary according to the culture of specific periods. Explain how early American literature is relevant to contemporary society.Include examples from each period studied as you make your argument.Include at least four outside sources to support your position.Present your assignment using one of the following options or another of your choice. Your assignment must consist of about 5 to 7 pages of written work outlining your proposal, program, or anthology. Be creative in both technological and conceptual formats. suggested formats for your projectDemonstrate how literature can be used for cultural awareness or to resolve conflicts.-Must include in-text citations and a Reference Page -APA format-Please also use texts from the attached reading list from textbook included in sourceshttps://phoenix.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780393624083
Prepare a project that analyzes the meaning and importance of early American literature.Explain how the fiction and drama of the pre-Civil War (wk 5 on reading list) period relates to earlier literary
LIT/255 Reading List LIT/255 Version 4 University of Phoenix Material LIT/255 Reading List Be sure to refer to the Table of Contents and the How to Use This Digital Edition. Use the search button to enter the name of the author or title of the reading to navigate in your VitalSource text. You will see that in most cases, if work by an author is assigned, a brief biography of the author is also assigned. As you review these, do not try to memorize dates; you will not be quizzed on the facts of these authors’ lives. However, do review the biographies for external factors that might shed light on the readings, or help you understand the context of creation, publication, and/or distribution of the pieces read. Week 1 Modern Perspectives on First Encounters Before you plunge into the first readings from the period in which Europeans and Native Americans first encountered one another, a broad perspective sketching key concepts is useful. Read the following subsections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1 located in the “Beginnings to 1820” section: Introduction Timeline Native American World Views The Native Americans did not share a single unified culture when the Europeans arrived, but their beliefs shared similarities, and addressed similar topics. Examining these groupings can give insight into Native culture. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1820 Native American Oral Literature Stories of the Beginning of the World Trickster Tales Explorations, Encounters, and Interactions The first Europeans to explore North American were not Americans. They thought of themselves as Spaniards, Englishmen, Christians, etc. That being said, those first encounters shaped European understanding of America, and the nation that would emerge. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1820 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Letter of Discovery From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c.1490-1558) From The Relation of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca First Encounters: Early European Accounts of Native America John Smith (1580-1631) From The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles From New England’s Trials Roger Williams (c.1603-1683) From A Key into the Language of America Week 2 Colonial Leaders While all of the European colonists in North America faced challenges, colonial leaders carried a particular weight: they had to think about their own fate, but also about how entire groups of people should live. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginings to 1820 William Bradford (1590-1657) Of Plymouth Plantation Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Biography The Way to Wealth Information to Those Who Would Remove to America Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America The Autobiography Part One Part Two Colonial Ministers Almost all of the colonists were Christian—a small number were Jewish—and many took their religion quite seriously. However, formal ministers had to both articulate their own faiths and speak to and for their communities. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginings to 1820 John Winthrop (1588-1649) Biography A Model of Christian Charity From The Journal of John Winthrop Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729) Biography From God’s Determinations Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold Huswifery Cotton Mather (1663-1728) Biography From The Wonders of the Invisible World From Magnalia Christi Americana Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Biography Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Colonial Women Some elements of the colonists’ experience was shared. Other elements were specific to women. Examining a set of readings by colonial women should give special insight into these aspects of colonial life. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginings to 1820 Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) Biography The Prologue To Her Father with Some Verses The Flesh and the Spirit The Author to Her Book Before the Birth of One of Her Children To My Dear and Loving Husband Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711) Biography A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Ethnographic and Naturalist Writing Sarah Kemble Knight Biography From The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York in the Year 1704 Saturday, October the Seventh From December the Sixth Week 3 Creating America The North American continent had long existed, but for the United States of America to come into being, people had to define it. This set of readings helped do that. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1820 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) From Letters from an American Farmer John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818) From The Letters Thomas Paine (1737-1809) From Common Sense The Crisis, No. 1 From The Age of Reason Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson From Notes on the State of Virginia The Federalist From The Federalist No. 1 [Alexander Hmailton] No. 10 [James Madison] Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) From The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself Philip Freneau (1752-1832) The Wild Honey Suckle The Indian Burying Ground To Sir Toby On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man On the Religion of Nature Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784) On Being Brought from Africa to America To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth To the University of Cambridge, in New England On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitfield, 1770 Thoughts on the Works of Providence To S.M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works To His Excellency General Washington Letters To John Thornton To Rev. Samson Occom Washington Irving (1783-1859) From A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrick Knickerbocker Rip Van Winkle American Literature 1820-1865 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Pioneers The Last of the Mohicans William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Thanatopsis To a Waterfowl Sonnet – To an American Painter Departing for Europe The Prairies The Death of Lincoln William Apess (1798-1839) A Son of the Forest An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man Week 4 The American Renaissance: Poetry During this period, a number of poets emerged who earned international reputations—and money. Longfellow was the first American poet to make his living from his poetry. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: American Literature 1820-1865 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Nature Self-Reliance Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Young Goodman Brown The Minister’s Black Veil Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) The Jewish Cemetery at Newport My Lost Youth John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) The Hunters of Men Ichabod! Snow Bound: A Winter Idyl Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) The Raven Annabel Lee The Tell-Tale Heart The Philosophy of Composition Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Resistance to Civil Government Walden, or Life in the Woods 1. Economy 2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 5. Solitude 17. Spring 18. Conclusion Herman Melville (1819-1891) Bartleby, the Scrivener Week 5 Period Perspectives on Racial Issues In the decades leading up to the Civil War, race relations and slavery drew more and more attention, shaping politics, religious activity, and literature. During this period the women’s rights movement arose, culminating in 1848 with the Seneca Falls Convention. The struggle between men and women took many forms, and appeared in literature as well as politics. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: American Literature 1820-1865 Native Americans: Removal and Resistance Black Hawk Petalesharo Elias Boudinot The Cherokee Memorials Ralph Waldo Emerson Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) A House Divided: Speech Delivered at Springield, Illinois, at the Close of the Republican State Convention, June 16, 1858 Address Delivered at the Dedicaiton of the Cemetary at Gettysburg, November 19, 1863 Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) The Great Lawsuit Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Fourth of July Things and Thoughts in Europe Slavery, Race, and the Making of American Literature Thomas Jefferson David Walker Samual E. Cornish and John B. Russworm William Llyod Garrison Angelina E. Grimké Sojourner Truth James M. Whitfield Martin R. Delany Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly Volume 1 Chapter VII. The Mother’s Struggle Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That A Senator Is But A Man Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811-1872) Male Criticism on Ladies’ Books Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Midcentury Poetry Though they lived very different lives, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickson were truly great poets, writers who reshaped American poetry and inspired both readers and writers. Read the following sections of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 1: American Literature 1820-1865 Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Preface to Leaves of Grass Sea Drift Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking Drum-Taps The Wound-Dresser Memories of President Lincoln When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) 259 [A Clock Stopped – ] 260 [I’m Nobody! Who are you?] 269 [Wild nights – Wild nights!] 320 [There’s a certain Slant of light] 339 [I like a look of Agony] 340 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain] 355 [It was not Death, for I stood up] 359 [A Bird, came down the Walk – ] 365 [I know that He exists] 372 [After great pain, a formal feeling comes] 373 [This World is not conclusion] 409 [The Soul selects her own Society – ] 411 [Mine – by the Right of White Election!] 446 [This was a Poet – ] 448 [I died for Beauty – but was scarse] 479 [Because I could not stop for Death – ] 519 [This is my letter to the World] 591 [I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – ] 598 [The Brain – is wider than the Sky – ] 620 [Much Madness is divinest Sense – ] Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.
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