English 190

Book List

Chesnutt, C.: Conjure Tales and Stories of the Color Line; Douglass, F.: The Portable Frederick Douglass; Keckley, E.: Behind the Scenes, or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House; Lee, M.: The Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass; Lincoln, A.: The Portable Abraham Lincoln; Prince, M. : The History of Mary Prince; Samuels, S.: The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln; Walker, D.: David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Other Readings and Media

Photocopied reader

Description

We will read works by Douglass, Lincoln, their contemporaries, and their modern interpreters, taking up issues of literature, biography, politics, race, gender, and style and also debates about slavery, Civil War, and Reconstruction, then and now. Course requirements include oral presentations and a substantial research paper (20-25 pages) written in stages across the semester.

Please read the paragraph about English 190 on page 2 of the instructions area of this Announcement of Classes for more details about enrolling in or wait-listing for this course.