UNED American Literature I: Presentation

Literatura Norteamericana IAmerican Literature I

Ricardo Menéndez

10 ECTS Credits 2015-2016

Presentation of Course

Course Calendar

1st term

2nd term

Course contents

Authors and Contents 1st Semester

Authors and Contents 2nd Semester

Q&A

Ricardo Menéndez UNED 2015-2016 [email protected]

Class calendar

90 minute tutorial sessions

26 sessions in the whole course

13 sessions First semester

13 sessions Second semester

First tutorial sesión: 7th October

Christmas break: 16th December

End Christmas break: 13th January

End First Term: 20th January

Beginning Second Term: 17th February

End Tutorial Sessions:18th May


Main Bibliography Used in Class

AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 (2nd EDITION) – CERA

Gibert Maceda, Mª Teresa

A STUDY GUIDE FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1900 (2009) – CERA

Gibert Maceda, Mª Teresa

THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (1994) – CUP

Bercovitch, Sacvan

Guía de Estudio (parts I & II) – Online and PDF available through UNED Student

Site


Authors & Contents 1st TermStudy Block I

Early American Literature

Captain John Smith – Oct 7th

William Bradford – Oct 14th

Anne Bradstreet – Oct 21st

Mary Rowlandson – Oct 28th

The American Enlightment

Jonathan Edwards – Nov 4th

Benjamin Franklin – Nov 11th

Olaudah Equiano – Nov 18th

Phillis Wheatley – Nov 25th

Romanticism (part I)

Washington Irving – Dec 2nd

James Fenimore Cooper – Dec 9th

Ralph Waldo Emerson – Dec 16th

Henry David Thoroeau – Jan 13th

Review past exams – Jan 20th


Authors & Contents 2nd TermStudy Block II

Romanticism (part II)

Nathaniel Hawthorne – Feb 17th

Herman Melville – Feb 24th

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Mar

2nd

Edgar Allan Poe – Mar 9th

Frederick Douglass – Mar 16th

Harriet Beecher Stowe – Mar 30th

Walt Whitman – Apr 6th

Emily Dickinson– Apr 13th

Realism and Naturalism

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) –

Apr 20th

Henry James – Apr 27th

Kate Chopin – May 4th

Stephen Crane – May 11th

Review past exams – May 18th


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