American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500
This course covers a representative range of American writings of the 1620-1865 period, from seventeenth-century Puritan prose and poetry to the eighteenth-century literature of enlightenment, revolution, and national founding, and on to that unique moment of political tension and cultural flowering, the Civil War era. We explore Puritan works by William Bradford and Jonathan Edwards; texts of the American Enlightenment by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson; the poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson; nonfiction by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Abraham Lincoln; fiction by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville; the writings of African Americans, including David Walker, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs; and Native American works such as the Winnebago trickster cycle and Iroquois creation story. In addition to reading landmark works of America’s formative period, we discuss current approaches to cultural history, American Studies, and such critical approaches as historicist, queer, circumatlantic, ecocritical, and aesthetic/formalist. Class meetings are on Zoom. Assignments include a book review and a term paper.
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Lucy Victoria Phillips – Victoria started the topic Phillips PowerPoint in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 day, 20 hours ago
In PDF for easy download!
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Lucy Victoria Phillips – Victoria started the topic Review: Conroy-Krutz, Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 3 days, 5 hours ago
Dear All,
So I need editorial help because the review is still too long! Please consider which sections could be cut. I’m not sure if I will use a PowerPoint tomorrow. If I do, I will post it tomorrow before class. Thank you for your thoughts!
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Destiny Desiree Rose (She/Her/) uploaded the file: American Bloombury Review – DestIny Rose to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 week, 2 days ago
Hi all, here’s my non-academic review for tomorrows class. The powerpoint is also uploading.
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Destiny Desiree Rose (She/Her/) uploaded the file: American Bloombury Review – DestIny Rose to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 week, 2 days ago
Hi all, here’s my non-academic review for tomorrows class. The powerpoint is also uploading.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Reynolds, "'The Cask of Amontillado' in Its Cultural Contexts" to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 2 weeks ago
Take note of my marignal comments re rhetorical devices I use in this essay.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado" to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 2 weeks ago
A short story first published in 1846.
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Jiyun Kim replied to the topic Jiyun Kim’s Book Review in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Powerpoint slides
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Jiyun Kim started the topic Jiyun Kim’s Book Review in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 2 weeks, 2 days ago
Paul Hurh, American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 298 pages.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Reynolds – Poe and Popular Sensationalism to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 2 weeks, 3 days ago
For Tuesday, along with the assignments on the syllabus, read these snippets from my book Beneath the American Renaissance about some of our Poe tales, followed by brief examples of poetic techniques he uses in “The Raven.” -DSR
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Lauren J. Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, BPS replied to the topic My Oral Testimony at the Maryland House Finance Committee 3/27/2024 in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 3 weeks ago
And that should be the Compromise of 1850 – Not the Missouri Compromise (of 1820) . . . which I am hopeful I actually caught in the oral testimony.
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Lauren J. Tenney, PhD, MPhil, MPA, BPS started the topic My Oral Testimony at the Maryland House Finance Committee 3/27/2024 in the forum American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 3 weeks ago
Hi Everyone,
Professor Reynolds I hope this post reflects how much my work has already benefited from your class, just halfway through. I thought you all might find this interesting. I, of course, am obsessed.
Here is my oral testimony that I did not get to finish as I was booted out of the zoom call. The 21st Rule is likely in effect in…[Read more]
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: New version of syllabus to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 3 weeks, 2 days ago
This is our slightly revised syllabus, as of March 25.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Reynolds, "Emily Dickinson and Popular Culture" to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 3 weeks, 5 days ago
A piece on Dikcinon I wrote for “The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson.” Read it an take note of my style mark-ups in the margins.
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Josh Millstein (he/him/his) uploaded the file: Josh MIllstein PowerPoint for Book Review March 18 to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 4 weeks, 1 day ago
I am really sorry this took so long.
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Josh Millstein (he/him/his) uploaded the file: Josh MIllstein Book Review March 18 to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 month ago
This is my piece for tomorrow’s class. I will upload the power point in the morning.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: "Clean" version of Whitman/journalism article–no marginal notes to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 month ago
If you want to read the “clean” version of my Whitman/journalism piece, here it is. (Then youc could quickly glance at the marginal notes in the other version.)
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Reynolds, Walth Whitman's Journalism: The Foreground of "Leaves of Grass" to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 month ago
This is an article I wrote on the journalistic foreground of Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” Marginal notations are included to point out my stylistic techniques. Read this for our March 19 class.
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David S. Reynolds uploaded the file: Emerson's Letter to Wltitma- 1855 to American Cultural Voices, 1620-1865 ENG 75100; ASCP 81500 1 month ago
Whitman carried this letter from Emerson around in his pocket, had it published in a newspaper, and quoted from it on the spine of the second edition of his poetry volume “Leaves of Grass.” When you read the letter, you’ll see why Whitman was so delighted with it!
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