Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America

Readings

Required Texts

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.

[Download Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, a version of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, or download Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a version of Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl from Project Gutenberg.]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390030.

[Download Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

Melville, Herman. “Benito Cereno.” In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Selected and Edited by Paul Lauter, et al. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. ISBN: 0618109196.

Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.

[Download Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President’s Daughter, a revised version of William Wells Brown’s Clotel, download The Marrow of Tradition, a version of Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition, or download Iola Leroy, a version of Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy from Project Gutenberg.]

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 0140439048.

Delany, Martin. Blake: or, the Huts of America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. ISBN: 080706419X.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390464.

[Download The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

Twain, Mark. Pudd’nhead Wilson and Other Tales. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0192818066.

[Download Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, a version of this text from Project Gutenberg.]

LEC #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction
2	Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845)	Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.
3	Douglass
4	Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)	Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390030.
5	Stowe
6	Stowe (cont.)
7	Wells Brown, Clotel (1853) Research Workshop	Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
8	Brown
9	Melville, “Benito Cereno” (1853, 1856) Submit topic (choice of passage) for first essay.	Melville, Herman. “Benito Cereno.” In Melville’s Short Novels: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism. Selected and Edited by Dan McCall. New York: Norton, 2002. ISBN: 0393976416.
10	Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (1856)	Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. ISBN: 0140439048.
11	Stowe
12	Stowe (cont.)
13	Martin Delany, Blake (1861)	Delany, Martin. Blake: or, the Huts of America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. ISBN: 080706419X.
14	Delany
15	Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) Submit topic (author and research question) for second essay.	Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Mentor/Penguin, 1987. ISBN: 0451627261.
16	Jacobs
17	Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)	Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. ISBN: 0140390464.
18	Twain
19	Twain (cont.)
20	Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1892)	Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
21	Harper
22	Conference Day
23	Mark Twain, Puddn’head Wilson (1894)	Twain, Mark. Pudd’nhead Wilson and Other Tales. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. ISBN: 0192818066.
24	Twain Submit topic for final essay and be prepared to report on your progress.
25	Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)	Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed. Three Classic African-American Novels. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 0679727426.
26	Conference Day
27	Chesnutt
28	Conclusion