Ernest Lee Tuveson, Redeemer Nation.
9/25: Classic Paradigms II: The Middle Ground: Early National Period to WW I
- Thomas Jefferson, Draft of The
Declaration of Independence. andQuery 4 pp. 142-149 and Query 19
pp. 290-291, from Notes on the State of
Virginia.
- James Madison, The
Federalist #10
- George Washington, Farewell Address.
- Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur, Letter III: What is an American?, from Letters from an American Farmer.
- Alexis deTocqueville, Volume II, Influence of Democracy on the Action of
Intellect in The United States, Philosophical Method of The Americans, Of the Principal Source
of Belief Among Democratic Nations, Why the Americans Show More General Aptitude and
Taste for General Ideas that their Forefathers, The English, Why the Americans have never been
so Eager as the French for General Ideas in Political Affairs, How Equality Suggests to the
Americans the Indefinite Perfectibility of Man, In What Spirit the Americans Cultivate the Arts,
Literary Characteristics of Democratic Times, How American Democracy has Modified the
English Language, What Causes Almost All Americans to Follow an Industrial
Calling, How an Aristocracy may be Created by Manufacures. from Democracy in America
- Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg
Address.
- Walt Whitman, selection from Democratic Vistas.(R)
- Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in
American History.
- Henry Adams, Chicago and The Dynamo and the Virgin, from
The
Education of Henry Adams.(C)
Suggested:
- Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience.
- Michael Kammen, The Machine that Would Run by Itself: The Constitution
in American Culture.
- Miles Orvell, The Real Thing.
- Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Myth and
Symbol.
- Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
10/2: The American Studies Movement.
- Gene Wise, Paradigm Dramas in American Studies: A Cultural
and Institutional History of the Movement.
- Henry Nash Smith, Can American Studies Develop a Method.(R)
- Leo Marx, American Studies A Defense of an
Unscientific Method.
- Frederick Lewis Dekker, Disassembling the Machine in the
Garden.
- Donald Pease, Visionary Compacts and the Cold War
Consensus.
- Phillip Fisher, The New American Studies.
- Christopher P. Wilson, Containing Multitudes:
Realism,Historicism, American Studies.
- Nina Baym, Melodramas of Beset Manhood.
- Christopher Clausen, National Literatures in English.
- Frederick Crews, The New Americanists.
- Frederick Crews, Whose American Renaissance?
- David Levin, American Historicism Old and New.
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Between Individualism and
Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender.
- Richard Ruland, Art and a Better America.
- Jay Mechling, An American Culture Grid, With Texts.
- Gerald Graff, The Promise of American Studies.
Suggested:
- Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin, eds., Critical Terms for Literary
Study, especially Stanley Fish, Rhetoric, Stephen Greenblatt, Culture, John
Guillory, Canon, Myra Jehlen, Gender, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Race,
Werner Sollors, Ethnicity, James H. Kavanagh, Ideology, John Fiske, Popular
Culture, Louis Menand, Diversity, and Daniel T. O'Hara, Class. (C)
- Theresa de Lauretis, ed., Feminist Studies, Critical Studies.
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Race: Writing and Difference.
- Frederick Jameson, The Political Unconscious.
- John Fiske, Understanding Popular Culture.
- Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American
Culture.
- Edward Said, Orientalism.
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NOTE: scanned articles are due 10/6; Reading days 10/7-10/10.
10/11: Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land.
Note: click here for a somewhat fuller
description of our objectives in regard to Virgin Land
Suggested:
- Robert Berkhofer, The White Mans' Indian.
- Frank Prucha, Americanizing the American Indian.
- Richard Slotkin, Regeneration Through Violence.
- Tompkins, Jane P. West of everything : The Inner Life of Westerns.
10/11: Virgin Land (continued).
10/16: Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden.
Suggested:
- Gary Cross, Technology and American Society : A History.
- Thomas Parke Hughes, American Genesis : A Ccntury of Invention and
Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970.
- Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears : Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist
America,
10/23: Machine in the Garden (continued)>
NOTE: by 10/27, sign up for scanning sections of The
Education of Henry Adams.
10/30: Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America.
Suggested:
- John Cawelti, America on Display: The Worlds' Fairs of 1876, 1893, 1933, in F. Jaher,
ed., The Age of Industrialism in America.
- John Higham, Strangers in the Land.
- Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted.
- Neil Harris, Grand Illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893
- Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol.
- Sam Bass Warner, The Urban Wilderness.
- David Noble, America by Design.
11/6: The Incorporation of America (continued).
11/13: Miles Orvell,The Real Thing.
Suggested:
- Daniel Boorstin, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America.
- Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum.
- T. Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance : A Cultural History of Advertising in
America.
- Susan Sonntag, On Photography.
- Susan Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass
Market.
- Alan Trachtenberg, Brooklyn Bridge: Symbol and Fact.
- Alan Trachtenberg, Photography as History.
11/20: The Real Thing (continued).
NOTE:no class meeting Friday, November 3.
11/22:Last day of class: Thanksgiving
NOTE: scanned portions of The Education of Henry
Adams are due 11/22.
11/27: Designing a hypertext edition of The Education of Henry
Adams.
Suggested:
- IATH guide to web
resources for
web authoring including pointers to theoretical and practical considerations of hypertext.
- Purveyor HomePage. (Purveyor is the web software
we
will be using to serve up the American Studies HomePage; this site also includes a number of
good tutorials and tools for hypertext authoring.)
12/1: Classes End.
NOTE: Revisons of Yellow Pages sections to be posted 12/1, synoptic
journal files to be posted by 12/8.
12/11: Exams Begin.
Final Project. Introduction to American Studiesdue 12/15.
12/18: Exams End.
