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VELLUCCI SABRINA
(syllabus)
American Renaissances
This course examines some of the most relevant works in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. literary canon. Special attention will be devoted to the period known as "the American Renaissance", that will be studied according to the most recent critical reevaluations. Texts belonging to different literary genres -- novel, short story, essay, slave narrative, poem, oration -- will be analyzed with a view to understanding the issues related to the formation of a U.S. national culture, the Puritan legacy and the relationship with Europe, the Civil War and its representations, the writings by women and Natives.
(reference books)
Elias Boudinot, “An Address to the Whites” [1826], any edition.
William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” [1833], any edition.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” [1837], any edition.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” [1839], “William Wilson” [1839], “The Mask of the Red Death” [1842], any edition.
Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government” [1849], any edition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter [1850], ed. Brian Harding (Oxford-New York: Oxford UP, 2007).
Herman Melville, Moby Dick [1851] (London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2002)
Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” [1852], any edition.
Seattle (Duwamish), “Speech of Chief Seattle” [1854], any edition.
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [1861] (New York: W.W. Norton, 2001).
Emily Dickinson, a selection of poems will be given in class.
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), “The School Days of an Indian Girl” [1900], any edition.
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Università Roma Tre