Materials . . .

The Advocate of Moral Reform (May 1, 1839)

Adam Miller has prepared this full-text PDF reproduction of George Cragin's The Advocate of Moral Reform. This is volume 5, number 9, dated May 1, 1839, and it's eight pages long. As Adam writes in his one-page postscript, the Advocate was the mouthpiece of the New York Female Moral Reform Society from 1835 to 1845. It continued the notorious McDowall's Journal, which began in 1833 and met a quick end when its proprietor, the Rev. John Robert McDowall, was engulfed in a variety of scandals.

Unlike the other editions, this one reproduces the look and layout of the original. And I did none of the PDF production; Adam Miller made this all by himself.

Portrait of Lucretia Mott (1793-1880)

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge. This image file is in the public domain. I created it with a scanner and an out-of-copyright book that I own. Use it as you please. Source of the original image: James Parton, Horace Greeley, T.W. Higginson, et al., Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of The Lives and Deeds of The Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation (Hartford: S.M. Betts, 1869) 371.

Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

Click on the thumbnail to enlarge. This image file is in the public domain. I created it with a scanner and an out-of-copyright book that I own. Use it as you please. Source of the original image: James Parton, Horace Greeley, T.W. Higginson, et al., Eminent Women of the Age; Being Narratives of The Lives and Deeds of The Most Prominent Women of the Present Generation (Hartford: S.M. Betts, 1869) 333.

Politics in American Literature, all the words

Here are the words for the 2006 edition of Politics in American Literature.

Brackenridge handout for Politics in American Literature

The handout called "Hugh Henry Brackenridge, “Provincial Honors to an Exciseman” (1807)" can be found here as both HTML and PDF. All hail Alex Morris, graduate student from the Spring 2006 section of Early American Literature, for his preparation of this reading.

Hannah More handout

That Hannah More handout that we read for the second day of class in Politics in American Literature? Here it is.

Politics in American Literature, Fall 2006

Here's the syllabus for Politics in American Literature. A week before classes began, I learned that Lillie Devereux Blake's Fettered for Life has gone out of print, which is most regretful. As a consequence, there is hole in the center of the reading list that we will fill with various short readings.

Politics in American Literature loses text

The bookstore tells me that Fettered for Life is out of print, and no copies are available. So ... it will not be on our reading schedule.

Politics in American Literature: Readings in Irving

Seminar students getting an early start on the Fall semester will want the readings from the first of our seven books.

Hugh Henry Brackenridge, “Provincial Honors to an Exciseman” (1807)

A reading by Alex Morris for Early American Literature (Spring 2006). This is number 6 in the series. This post contains the full text of this edition, which is also available in a graceful PDF format.

Politics in American Literature, Fall 2006, book order

This upper-level seminar studies works of creative literature with political themes. The readings will be works of fiction mainly.

Politics in American Literature, Fall 2004

I've taught this in the fall every even-numbered year since 2000. Here is the Fall 2004 edition. It will run again in the Fall of 2006; I am still working on the reading list and book order for the forthcoming section.