Readings
[Melville] = Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. Edited by John Bryant and Haskell Springer. Longman, 2009. ISBN: 9780205514083.
[Jacobs] = Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Edited by Jean Fagan Yellin. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780674035836. [Preview with Google Books]
[Twain] = Twain, Mark. Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson. Edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780199554713. [Preview with Google Books]
[Wharton] = Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. Vintage, 2012. ISBN: 9780307949516.
[Faulkner] = Faulkner, William. Absalom! Absalom. Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732181.
[Morrison] = Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. Vintage, 2009. ISBN: 9780307276766.
[Butler] = Butler, Octavia. Kindred. Beacon Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780807083697.
| SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| Strange Places | |
| 2 | [Butler] “Prologue,” “The River,” “The Fire,” and “The Fall” |
| 3 |
[Butler] “The Fight,” “The Storm,” “The Rope,” and “Epilogue” Annotation Studio Workshop |
| 4 |
[Melville] “Etymology,” “Extracts,” and Chapters 1-9 Locast Mapping Workshop |
| 5 | [Melville] Chapters 10–28 |
| 6 | [Melville] Chapters 29–46 |
| 7 | [Melville] Chapters 47–67 |
| 8 | [Melville] Chapters 68–88 |
| 9 | [Melville] Chapters 89–113 |
| 10 | [Melville] Chapter 113 and Epilogue |
| Strange Families | |
| 12 | [Jacobs] Chapters 1–18 |
| 13 | [Jacobs] Chapters 19–41 |
| 14 | [Twain] Chapters 1–11 |
| 15 | [Twain] Chapters 12–21 and Conclusion |
| 16 | [Wharton] Chapters 1–13 |
| 17 | [Wharton] Chapters 14–23 |
| 18 | [Wharton] Chapters 24–34 |
| Strange Histories | |
| 20 | [Faulkner] Chapters 1–4 |
| 21 | [Faulkner] Chapters 5–7 |
| 22 | [Faulkner] Chapters 8–9 |
| 23 | [Morrison] Chapters 1–4 |
| 24 | [Morrison] Chapters 5–7 |
| 25 | [Morrison] Chapters 8–13 |
