ENGLISH 430 FALL 2001
LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS TO 1810

PART A: DISCOVERY, EXPLORATION, CONQUEST, AND SETTLEMENT

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART A:

• Tzvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America.
• William Cronon, Changes in the Land.
• Francis Jennings, The Invasion of America.
• James Axtell, After Columbus.
• Sandra Messinger Cypess, La Malinche in Mexican Literature from History to Myth.
• William Rasmussen and Robert Tilton, Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend.
• Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions.
• Irving Leonard, Books of the Brave.
• Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters.
• Rolena Adorno, Guaman Poma: Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru.
• June Namias, White Captives.
• Christopher Castiglia, Bound and Determined.
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Purian Goodwifes.
• John Demos, Unredeemed Captive.

PART B: RELIGION AND LITERATURE IN COLONIAL SOCIETY

• Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World (in anthology).
  
• The Examination of Susanna Martin
  
DUE: DRAFT PAPER 1 (4-5 pages)

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART B:

• David Hall, World of Wonder, Days of Judgment.
• Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness.
• Sacan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad
• Stephen Nissenbaum, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft.
• John Canup, Out of the Wilderness. The Emergence of an American Identity in Colonial New England.
• Philip Gura, A Glimpse of Zion.
• Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic.
• Stephen Foster, The Long Argument.

PART C: WRITING THE LIVES OF MEN AND WOMEN IN THE EARLY AMERICAS

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART C:

• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale.
• Linda Kerber, Women of the Republic.
• Oberg and Stout, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin and the Representation of American Culture.
• Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico.
• Irving Leonard, Baroque Times in Old Mexico.

PART D. SCIENCE, TRAVEL, AND SATIRE IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAS

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART C:

• Frank Shuffleton, ed. A Mixed Race.
• Leo Lemay, Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland.
• Kenneth Lockridge, On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage.
• Annette Kolodny, The Land Before Her.
• ---, The Lay of the Land.
• Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
• Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes.
• Pamela Regis, Describing America.

PART E: EMPIRE AND POETRY IN THE EARLY AMERICAS

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART E:

• David Shields, Oracles of Empire.
• William Dowling, Poetry and Ideology in Revolutionary Connecticut;
• Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom

PART F: EARLY NATIONAL IDENTITY, PRINT CULTURE, AND THE AMERICAN NOVEL

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS IN PART F:

• Cathy Davidson, Revolution and the Word.
• Bennedict Anderson, Imagined Communities.
• Larger Ziff, Writing in the New Nation.
• Michael Warner, Letters of the Republic.
• Jay Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims.

FINALS DAY