• Thursday, Sep. 28: Introduction to the course
  • Friday, Sep. 29: Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" – sections 1–19 + essay 1 (Simon)
  • Thursday, Oct. 5: Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" – sections 20–38
  • Friday, Oct. 6: Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" – sections 39–52
  • Thursday, Oct. 19: Walt Whitman, "The Wound Dresser" + essay 2 (Fuller)
  • Thursday, Oct. 26: Emily Dickinson,  “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”; “A Bird, came down the Walk – ”; “Wild Nights – Wild Nights!”; “There’s a certain Slant of Light” 
  • Friday, Oct. 27: Emily Dickinson,  “One need not be a Chamber – ”; “They Dropped like Flakes –”; “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –”; “Because I could not stop for Death – ”
  • No classes on Nov. 2 and 3 (Public holiday)
  • Thursday, Nov. 9: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapters: 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, 17 + essay 3 (Braxton)
  • Friday, Nov. 10: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapters: 21, 29, 41
  • Thursday, Nov. 16: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters: 1–6 + essay 4 (Smith)
  • Friday, Nov. 17: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters: 7-18 
  • Thursday, Nov. 23: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters: 19–31
  • Friday, Nov. 24: Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, chapters: 32–The Chapter Last
  • Thursday, Nov. 30: Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman: “The Goophered Grapevine,” “Po' Sandy,” “Mars Jeems' Nightmare.” + essay 5 (Hubbs)
  • Friday, Dec. 1: Charles Chesnutt, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color-Line: “The Wife of his Youth,” “Her Virginia Mammy,” “The Passing of Grandison.”
  • Thursday, Dec. 7: Henry James, The Aspern Papers, chapters 1–4 + essay 6 (Stein)
  • No classes on December 8 (Public holiday)
  • Thursday, Dec. 15 (two-hour class): Henry James, The Aspern Papers, chapters: 5–7
  • Friday, Dec. 16: Henry James, The Aspern Papers, chapters: 8–9


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