American Literature 1800-Present: Lowell Mill Workers

Monday, February 16, 2009

Lowell Mill Workers

Melville's "Tartarus of Maids" is based in part on the mill workers in Lowell, Massachusetts. Here are some images from those mills.

Two weavers

At the loom

Boott cotton mill

Sources, and find out more, at these websites:
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/21boott/21boott.htm
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/americanstudies/lavender/lowell.html

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Reading Schedule

T Jan. 13
Introduction to the course

Th Jan. 15
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (Norton)

Tu Jan. 20
Abraham Lincoln, “A House Divided” and “Second Inaugural Address” (Norton)
Assignment: watch Obama’s inaugural address (today at noon, or watch it online later) and compare to Lincoln’s inaugural addresses

Th Jan. 22
William Apess, An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man (Norton)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, Vol. I, Chapter 4 (Norton)

Tu Jan. 27
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” (Norton)

Th Jan. 29
Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birth-Mark” (Norton)

Tu Feb. 3
Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”
Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia” (Norton)

Th Feb. 5
Poe, “The Raven,” “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “William Wilson” (Norton)

Tu Feb. 10
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Norton)

Th Feb 12
Douglass, Narrative
First paper due Friday, Feb. 13, 4 p.m.

Tu Feb 17
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” (Norton)

Th Feb 19
Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron-Mills” (Norton)

Tu Feb 24
Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” and “Song of Myself” parts 1-7 (Norton)

Th Feb 26
Emily Dickinson, poems: 112, 124, 207, 225, 260, 340, 347, 359, 372, 407, 409, 466, 475, 477, 479, 591, 598, 760, 764, 788, 1096, 1263 (Norton)

Tu March 3
Henry James, “Daisy Miller” (coursepack)

Th March 5
Edith Wharton, “Souls Belated” (coursepack)

March 10-12: Spring Break

Tu March 17
Charles Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine,” “Po’ Sandy,” and “The Wife of His Youth” (coursepack)

Th March 19
Langston Hughes, poems (coursepack)
Second paper due Friday, March 20, 4 p.m.

Tu March 24
Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, poems (coursepack)

Th March 26
Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “Hills Like White Elephants,” “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” (coursepack)

Tu March 31
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, to p. 75

Th April 2
Hurston, to p. 128

Tu April 7
Hurston, to end

Th April 9 and Tu April 14
No class—Easter break / Monday schedule

Th April 16
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac (coursepack)

Tue April 21
Maxine Hong Kingston, “No Name Woman” and “A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe” (coursepack)

Th April 23
Toni Morrison, A Mercy

Tu April 27
Morrison, A Mercy

Th April 30
Morrison, A Mercy

Final paper due Wed. May 6, 4 p.m.

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Lowell Mill Workers

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