Poe and Hawthorne
The University of Akron
Fall 2012 • 3300:645-801
Weds 5:20 to 7:50 • Olin
107
Jon Miller, Associate
Professor of English (Ph.D., U. of Iowa, 2000). Find me at 330-972-5717 (office
and voice mail), mjon at uakron dot edu (email), or 301b Olin Hall (office).
Course Description
This is an graduate
seminar on the literature of and scholarship about Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and their historical and literary contexts.
Textbooks
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne's Tales. New York: Norton, 1987. ISBN 978-0393954265. In the reading
schedule, this is abbreviated “NH.”
Hawthorne, Blithedale
Romance. New York: Norton, 1977. ISBN 978-0393091502. a.k.a. “BR”
Poe, Edgar Allan. The
Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Norton Critical Edition. New York:
Norton, 2004. ISBN 0393972852. a.k.a. “EAP”
Willis, N.P. Sketches at
Home and Abroad. Akron: U Akron Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-931968-75-1. a.k.a.
“SHA”
Scholarly research paper
All work for the course
will culminate in a long scholarly research paper. You can write a traditional
work of literary criticism or a scholarly edition of relevant, out-of-print
literary texts. This will be due in week 11.
Presentation
Everyone will present
their research in a brief (10-15 minute) presentation in the final weeks of
class.
Attendance policy
(1) Missing 20% of class
warrants failure. (2) All reasons to miss class – personal or academic – are
equally good. An absence is an absence. (3) I do not require an explanation for
an absence. If you miss class, I will assume that you missed class for a good
reason. I respect your privacy and do not need to know why. On the other hand,
I will be concerned and curious. If you care to explain, I will listen. (4) Any
lateness to class counts as half an absence. (5) Any early departure from class
counts as half an absence. (6) Habitual tardiness or early departure warrants a
failing participation grade. (7) I will keep a careful record of the number of
times you are absent, late, or leaving early, but I will not bring this to
class. And I may not be able to provide an accurate, up-to-the-minute total of
time missed on demand. You should keep your own record if you want to miss just
under 20%. (8) Your attendance record cannot be improved by additional writing
assignments or other kinds of extra-credit work.
Attendance and participation
All students are expected
to respect the worth and contribution of everyone in the classroom. Your
attendance grade is the percentage of classes that you attend. Your
participation grade reflects your day-to-day contribution to the class. Your
attendance and participation grade is the product of these grades. Students who
text message, do email, surf the internet, or do homework for other classes
will receive a zero for class participation. Do not distract other people by
distracting yourself during class, and do not make yourself available to your
work, friends, or family during the class period. We can all be unavailable for
one hour and just concentrate on the task at hand, which is learning this
material.
Final Grade
This is the formula for
the final grade: Paper 75%, Presentation 15%, Attendance & Participation,
10%. All assignments receive a numeric grade. Grades will be awarded as
follows: 92.5, A; 90, A-; 87.5, B+; 82.5, B; 80, B-; 77.5, C+; 72.5, C; 70.0,
C-; 67.5, D+; 62.5, D; 60, D-; below 60, F.
Reading Schedule
Week 1
August 29, 2012
discussion of photocopied
materials
Week 2
September 5, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to Elizabeth C. Hathorne, March 13, 1821 NH(1821), 295 to 296.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Tamerlane” [poem]. EAP (1827), 8 to 14.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Dreams”
[poem]. EAP (1827), 15 to 15.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Spirits
of the Dead” [poem]. EAP (1827), 16 to 16.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Evening
Star” [poem]. EAP (1827), 17 to 17.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Imitation” [poem]. EAP (1827), 17 to 17.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“[Stanzas]” [poem]. EAP (1827), 18 to 18.
Edgar Allan Poe, “A
Dream” [poem]. EAP (1827), 19 to 19.
Edgar Allan Poe, “[The
Happiest Day]” [poem]. EAP (1827), 20 to 21.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Lake To ---” [poem]. EAP (1827), 20 to 21.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Sonnet--To Science” [poem]. EAP (1829), 21 to 21.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Al
Aaraaf” [poem]. EAP (1829), 22 to 41.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Fairy-Land version 1” [poem]. EAP (1829), 43 to 44.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“[Alone]” [poem]. EAP (1829), 46 to 46.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To John
Allan” [letter]. EAP (1829), 587 to 587.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux.” NH (1831), 3 to 17.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Roger Malvin's Burial.” NH (1831), 17 to 32.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Gentle Boy.” NH (1831), 32 to 55.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Introduction” [poem]. EAP (1831), 42 to 42.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Fairy-Land” [version 2]” [poem]. EAP (1831), 45 to 45.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Helen” [poem]. EAP (1831), 47 to 47.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Israfel” [poem]. EAP (1831), 48 to 48.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Valley of Unrest” [poem]. EAP (1831), 51 to 51.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
City in the Sea” [poem]. EAP (1831), 51 to 52.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Letter
to B” [Preface to Poems]” [essay]. EAP (1831), 588 to 593.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Metzengerstein” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1832), 81 to 89.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Loss of
Breath” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1832), 89 to 106.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Coliseum” [poem]. EAP (1833), 53 to 55.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ms.
Found in a Bottle” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1833), 106 to 115.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Joseph and Edwin Buckingham” [letter]. EAP (1833), 594 to 594.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Haunted Mind.” NH (1834), 55 to 58.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Assignation” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1834), 116 to 128.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Folio Club” [essay]. EAP (1834), 595 to 596.
James E. Heath, Southern
Literature, with Thompson's introduction” [criticism]. EAP (1834), 767 to 771.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Gray Champion.” NH (1835), 58 to 65.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Young Goodman Brown.” NH (1835), 65 to 75.
Week 3
September 12, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Wakefield.” NH (1835), 75 to 82.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Ambitious Guest.” NH (1835), 82 to 88.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The May-Pole of Merry Mount.” NH (1835), 88 to 97.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Minister's Black Veil.” NH (1835), 97 to 107.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1835), 309 to 311.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Some
Passages in the Life of a Lion” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1835), 128 to 133.
Edgar Allan Poe, “ShadowA
Parable” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1835), 134 to 136.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Berenice” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1835), 140 to 147.
Edgar Allan Poe, “King
Pest” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1835), 148 to 159.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Thomas W. White” [letter]. EAP (1835), 596 to 598.
Edgar Allan Poe, “from
Theodore S. Fay” [review]. EAP (1835), 598 to 600.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Man of Adamant.” NH (1836), 107 to 112.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1836), 311 to 312.
Park Benjamin, [Hawthorne
Unveiled] NH (1836), 327 to 328.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Philip Slingsby, Esq.” SHA (1836), 3 to 5.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Pedlar Karl.” SHA (1836), 5 to 21.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Niagara.” SHA (1836), 22 to 30.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Lake Ontario.” SHA (1836), 30 to 36.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The St. Lawrence.” SHA (1836), 37 to 40.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The Cherokee's Threat.” SHA (1836), 40 to 56.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"F. Smith.” SHA (1836), 57 to 75.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The Disturbed Vigil.” SHA (1836), 76 to 78.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The Mad Senior.” SHA (1836), 78 to 82.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The Lunatic's Skate.” SHA (1836), 82 to 93.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Incidents on the Hudson.” SHA (1836), 94 to 101.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Tom Fane and I.” SHA (1836), 102 to 114.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Driving Stanhope Pro Tem.” SHA (1836), 115 to 121.
Week 4
September 19, 2012
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Saratoga Springs.” SHA (1836), 121 to 131.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Mrs. Captain Thompson.” SHA (1836), 131 to 140.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"A Log in the Archipelago.” SHA (1836), 141 to 154.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"Love and Diplomacy.” SHA (1836), 155 to 163.
Nathaniel Parker Willis,
"The Madhouse of Palermo.” SHA (1836), 164 to 175.
Edgar Allan Poe, “from
Morris Mattson” [review]. EAP (1836), 601 to 602.
John P. Kennedy, To Poe”
[letter]. EAP (1836), 602 to 603.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To John
P. Kennedy” [letter]. EAP (1836), 603 to 603.
J.K. Paulding, To T.W.
White” [letter]. EAP (1836), 603 to 604.
Edgar Allan Poe, “from
Joseph Rodman DrakeFitzGreene Halleck” [review]. EAP (1836), 604 to 611.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Harrison Hall” [letter]. EAP (1836), 611 to 612.
Edgar Allan Poe, “from
Robert M. Bird” [review]. EAP (1836), 612 to 613.
N.B. Tucker, Slavery”
[essay]. EAP (1836), 772 to 778.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To N.B.
Tucker” [letter]. EAP (1836), 778 to 778.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Endicott and the Red Cross.” NH (1837), 113 to 118.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to H.W. Longfellow, June 4, 1837 NH (1837), 296 to 298.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to H.W. Longfellow, June 19, 1837 NH (1837), 298 to 298.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1837), 312 to 313.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, "Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales.” NH (1837), 328 to 330.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1838), 313 to 317.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Silence.A Fable” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1838), 136 to 140.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia”
[tale/sketch]. EAP (1838), 159 to 173.
Edgar Allan Poe, “How to
Write a Blackwood Article: A Predicament” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1838), 173 to
190.
Week 5
September 26, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1838), 429 to 563.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter
to H.W. Longfellow, January 12, 1839 NH (1839), 299 to 300.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1839), 317 to 317.
Edgar Allan Poe, “A Dream
within a Dream” [poem]. EAP (1839), 70 to 70.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man
That Was Used Up” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1839), 190 to 199.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Fall of the House of Usher” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1839), 199 to 216.
Edgar Allan Poe, “William
Wilson” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1839), 216 to 232.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Baron de la Motte Fouque” [review]. EAP (1839), 613 to 616.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Philip P. Cooke” [letter]. EAP (1839), 616 to 617.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to Sophia Peabody, October 4, 1840 NH (1840), 300 to 302.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1840), 317 to 317.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Sonnet--Silence” [poem]. EAP (1840), 55 to 55.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Man
of the Crowd” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1840), 232 to 239.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Thomas Moore” [review]. EAP (1840), 617 to 620.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Preface
to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque” [essay]. EAP (1840), 620 to 621.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Prospectus of The Penn Magazine” [prospectus]. EAP (1840), 621 to 623.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
William E. Burton” [letter]. EAP (1840), 623 to 623.
Thomas C. Upham, from
"Outlines of Imperfection and Disordered Action” [essay]. EAP (1840), 748
to 753.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Joseph Evans Snodgrass” [letter]. EAP (1840), 784 to 784.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to G.S. Hilliard, July 16, 1841 NH (1841), 302 to 302.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1841), 317 to 317.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Sleeper” [poem]. EAP (1841), 49 to 50.
Week 6
October 3, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Murders in the Rue Morgue” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1841), 239 to 266.
Edgar Allan Poe, “A
Descent into the Maelstrom” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1841), 266 to 279.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Colloquy of Monos and Una” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1841), 279 to 286.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Never
Bet the Devil Your Head” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1841), 286 to 295.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Edward Lytton Bulwer” [review]. EAP (1841), 624 to 626.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Lambert A. Wilmer” [review]. EAP (1841), 626 to 632.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to Margaret Fuller, August 25, 1842 NH (1842), 302 to 304.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1842), 318 to 318.
Edgar Allan Poe,
[Twice-told Tales, second ed.] NH (1842), 331 to 332.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Oval Portrait” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1842), 295 to 299.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Masque of the Red Death” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1842), 299 to 304.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit
and the Pendulum” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1842), 304 to 316.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Exordium to Critical Notices” [essay]. EAP (1842), 632 to 636.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” [review]. EAP (1842), 636 to 643.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Nathaniel Hawthorne part 1” [review]. EAP (1842), 643 to 644.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Nathaniel Hawthorne part 2” [review]. EAP (1842), 645 to 650.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Joseph Evans Snodgrass” [letter]. EAP (1842), 650 to 651.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Birthmark.” NH (1843), 118 to 131.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Celestial Railroad.” NH (1843), 131 to 144.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to Margaret Fuller, February 1, 1843 NH (1843), 304 to 305.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1843), 318 to 319.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
TellTale Heart” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1843), 316 to 321.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
GoldBug” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1843), 321 to 348.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Black Cat” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1843), 348 to 355.
Week 7
October 10, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Earth's Holocaust.” NH (1844), 144 to 159.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"The Artist of the Beautiful.” NH (1844), 159 to 177.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Drowne's Wooden Image.” NH (1844), 177 to 186.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Rappaccini's Daughter.” NH (1844), 186 to 209.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1844), 319 to 320.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“DreamLand” [poem]. EAP (1844), 56 to 57.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Premature Burial” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1844), 356 to 367.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Purloined Letter” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1844), 367 to 382.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
James R. Lowell” [letter]. EAP (1844), 651 to 653.
Edgar Allan Poe, “from
Marginalia” [essay]. EAP (1844), 653 to 656.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to E.A. Duyckinck, July 1, 1845 NH (1845), 306 to 306.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Raven” [poem]. EAP (1845), 57 to 61.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Some
Words with a Mummy” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1845), 382 to 398.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Power of Words” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1845), 398 to 401.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Imp
of the Perverse” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1845), 401 to 406.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1845), 407 to 414.
James Russell Lowell,
from "Our Contributors: Poe” [biography]. EAP (1845), 656 to 662.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” [review]. EAP (1845), 662 to 666.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Thomas Hood” [review]. EAP (1845), 667 to 670.
Edgar Allan Poe?,”
[Review of Poe's Tales]” [review]. EAP (1845), 670 to 675.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Preface
to The Raven and Other Poems” [essay]. EAP (1845), 675 to 675.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
preface to The Old Manse NH (1846), 268 to 288.
Week 8
October 17, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to E.A. Duyckinck, April 15, 1846 NH (1846), 306 to 307.
Henry F. Chorley, [Mosses
from an Old Manse] NH (1846), 335 to 336.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Cask of Amontillado” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1846), 415 to 421.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Philosophy of Composition” [criticism]. EAP (1846), 675 to 684.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Philip P. Cooke” [letter]. EAP (1846), 684 to 685.
Orson S. Fowler,
"Fowler's Practical Phrenology” [essay]. EAP (1846), 745 to 747.
Edgar Allan Poe,
"Tale-Writing: Nathaniel Hawthorne.” NH (1847), 332 to 335.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“UlalumeA Ballad” [poem]. EAP (1847), 61 to 65.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Nathaniel Hawthorne” [review]. EAP (1847), 685 to 693.
Frederic Henry Hedge,
"On Immanuel Kant and German Transcendentalism” [criticism]. EAP (1847),
720 to 727.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1848), 320 to 320.
James Russell Lowell,
[Hawthorne] NH (1848), 336 to 337.
Edgar Allan Poe, “To
Helen” [poem]. EAP (1848), 68 to 70.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe” [tale/sketch].
EAP (1848), 564 to 584.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Main-street.” NH (1849), 209 to 230.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1849), 321 to 321.
Edgar Allan Poe, “The
Bells” [poem]. EAP (1849), 65 to 68.
Edgar Allan Poe, “For
Annie” [poem]. EAP (1849), 71 to 74.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Eldorado”
[poem]. EAP (1849), 74 to 74.
Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel
Lee” [poem]. EAP (1849), 75 to 76.
Edgar Allan Poe,
“Hop-Frog; or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs” [tale/sketch]. EAP (1849), 421
to 428.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"A Fable for the Critics” [review]. EAP (1849), 693 to 698.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Ethan Brand.” NH (1850), 231 to 243.
Herman Melville,
"Hawthorne and his Mosses.” NH (1850), 337 to 350.
Edgar Allan Poe, from
"The Poetic Principle” [criticism]. EAP (1850), 698 to 704.
Walter G. Bowen, pseud.,
"A Reviewer Reviewed” [hoax review]. EAP (1850), 704 to 709.
George R. Graham, from
"The Late Edgar Allan Poe” [biography]. EAP (1850), 710 to 712.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
"Feathertop.” NH (1851), 243 to 258.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
preface to the 1851 edition of Twice-Told Tales NH (1851), 289 to 292.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to R.W. Griswold, December 15, 1851 NH (1851), 307 to 308.
Week 9
October 24, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
Blithedale Romance BR (1852), 1 to 114.
Week 10
October 31, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The
Blithedale Romance BR (1852), 115 to 228.
Week 11
Paper due
November 7, 2012
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
preface to The Snow Image NH (1852), 292 to 294.
Charles Baudelaire, from
"Edgar Allan Poe” [biography]. EAP (1852), 712 to 715.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from
the American Notebooks NH (1853), 321 to 321.
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
letter to James T. Fields, April 13, 1854 NH (1854), 308 to 309.
Henry James, Early
Writings NH (1879), 350 to 356.
Walt Whitman, from
"Edgar Poe's Significance” [criticism]. EAP (1880), 715 to 716.
Robert B. Heilman,
"Hawthorne's 'The Birthmark': Science as Religion.” NH (1949), 421 to 427.
Q. D. Leavis,
"Hawthorne as Poet.” NH (1951), 358 to 371.
Richard Wilbur, from
"The House of Poe” [criticism]. EAP (1959), 807 to 823.
Robert Colin McLean, from
"Poetic Theory” [criticism]. EAP (1961), 798 to 807.
James W. Gargano,
"The Question of Poe's Narrators” [criticism]. EAP (1963), 823 to 829.
Jorge Luis Borges,
"Nathaniel Hawthorne.” NH (1964), 405 to 415.
Frederick C. Crews,
"The Logic of Compulsion.” NH (1966), 380 to 389.
Leo Marx, [Ethan Brand]
NH (1967), 432 to 439.
Joseph J. Moldenhauer,
from "Murder as a Fine Art” [criticism]. EAP (1968), 829 to 844.
Floyd Stovall, from
"Poe's Debt to Coleridge," with Thompson's introduction to this
section [criticism]. EAP (1969), 785 to 798.
Grace Farrell, "The
Quest of Arthur Gordon Pym” [criticism]. EAP (1972), 856 to 863.
Liahna Armstrong,
"The Shadow's Shadow” [criticism]. EAP (1972), 863 to 873.
Paul John Eakin, from
"Poe's Sense of an Ending” [criticism]. EAP (1973), 844 to 856.
Michael J. Colacurcio,
"Visible Sanctity and Specter Evidence: The Moral World of Hawthorne's
'Young Goodman Brown'.” NH (1974), 389 to 404.
Barton Levi St. Armand,
from "The 'Mysteries' of Edgar Poe” [criticism]. EAP (1974), 873 to 883.
John P. McWilliams, Jr.,
"Hawthorne and the Puritan Revolution of 1776.” NH (1976), 371 to 379.
Nina Baym, [The Tales of
the Manse Period] NH (1976), 427 to 432.
Week 12
November 14, 2012
Joseph N. Riddel, from
"The 'Crypt' of Edgar Poe” [criticism]. EAP (1979), 884 to 895.
John W. Wright, "A
Feathertop Kit.” NH (1980), 439 to 454.
Sharon Cameron, "The
Self Outside Itself: 'Wakefield' and 'The Ambitious Guest'.” NH (1981), 415 to
421.
J. Gerald Kennedy, from
"Phantasms of Death in Poe's Fiction” [criticism]. EAP (1983), 896 to 904.
James McIntosh, Preface
to the Norton Critical edition NH (1987), ix to xi.
J.V. Ridgely, "The
Authorship of the 'Paulding-Drayton Review'" [criticism]. EAP (1992), 779
to 784.
John T. Irwin,
"Detective Fiction as High Art: Lacan, Derrida, and Johnson on "The
Purloined Letter” [criticism]. EAP (1994), 941 to 952.
John Carlos Rowe, from
"Antebellum Slavery and Modern Criticism” [criticism]. EAP (1997), 904 to
920.
Terence Whalen, from
"Average Racism: Poe, “Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism”
[criticism]. EAP (1999), 921 to 941.
G.R. Thompson,
"Poems” [introduction]. EAP (2004), 3 to 8.
G.R. Thompson,
"Tales and Sketches” [introduction]. EAP (2004), 77 to 80.
G.R. Thompson,
"Transcendentalism and Alternative Romanticism” [criticism]. EAP (2004),
717 to 720.
G.R. Thompson,
"Edgar Allan Poe: An American Life” [bio]. EAP (2004), xiii to xlviii.
Samuel L. Gilbert,
"The Critical Reception of Inklings of Adventure.” SHA (2010), 179 to 182.
Jen St. Clair,
"Niagara Falls and Other Watering Holes.” SHA (2010), 182 to 184.
Lindsay Dalrymple,
"Willis in Recent Scholarship.” SHA (2010), 184 to 187.
Marissa Marangoni,
"Higher Education in the Nineteenth Century.” SHA (2010), 187 to 189.
Carrie Tangenberg,
"'Scenes of Fear' and Poe's Literary Criticism.” SHA (2010), 189 to 191.
Shurice Gross,
"Portraits of the Insane in Poe and Willis.” SHA (2010), 192 to 194.
K.E. Birdsall, "N.P.
Willis's Antebellum Bachelor Narrative.” SHA (2010), 194 to 199.
Tony Bradford,
"Beauty and Nature in Willis's Inklings of Adventure.” SHA (2010), 199 to
201.
Alyssa Berthiaume,
"Counterfeiting in Antebellum America.” SHA (2010), 202 to 204.
Sara Bennett,
"Willis and Stagecoach Travel in the 1830s.” SHA (2010), 204 to 207.
Sara Bennett,
"Willis and a Gentleman's Travels in the Mediterranean.” SHA (2010), 207
to 209.
Abby Stiegemeier,
"Courtship and Marriage in Antebellum America.” SHA (2010), 209 to 212.
Jeremy Sayers, "'The
Madhouse of Palermo' and Samuel Tuke.” SHA (2010), 212 to 214.
Week 13
November 28, 2012
readings TBA
Week 14
December 5, 2012
Presentations
Week 15
December 12, 2012
Presentations
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