Tuesday, January 31 Early Nineteenth Century

Reading:

W&AE, pp. 71-108

Catharine Maria Sedgwick, from Hope Leslie (1827), WW, pp. 177-91.

Wednesday, February 1, 7:00 PM, SH 221: FILM: The Heiress (1949)

Link to reviews

Thursday, February 2 Slavery

Reading:

W&AE, pp. 108-128.

Frederick Douglass, from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845), in Course Reader, pp. 6-14.

Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), WW, pp. 315-20, 327-35, 337-44.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), in Women's Work, pp. 249-259; 276-283)

Tuesday, February 7 The Self-Made Man & the Cult of True Womanhood

Reading:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) in Course Reader, pp. 15-27;

Margaret Fuller, from Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), WW, 206-217;

Amy Clampitt, "Margaret Fuller, 1847" (poem 1987), WW, 951-53.