Dr. Donna M. Campbell  campbedm@gmail.com
Robinson House 24, 323-6676 http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell
Office Hours: M W F 10-10:50, M 11-12 and by appointment.
 Virtual Office Hours:  Send an instant message to Drcampbell6676@aol.com,
 Drcampbell6676@hotmail.com, or drcampbell6676@yahoo.com.

Required Texts

Ammons, Elizabeth and Valerie Rohy, eds. American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920. New York: Penguin, 1998.  ISBN 0 14 04-3688 X
Baym, Nina. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Volume I. Fifth Edition. New York: Norton, 1998. (Note: Older editions will not work for this class.) ISBN 0 393 95871 X
Clemens, Samuel L. The Portable Mark Twain. Ed. Bernard DeVoto. New York: Penguin, 1977. ISBN 0 14 015 020 X
James, Henry. Daisy Miller. Mineola, NY: Dover Press, 1995. ISBN 0 486 28773-4

Recommended Text

Harmon, William, and C. Hugh Holman. A Handbook to Literature. Eighth Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2000.

Course Description

English 311/511 traces the development of American literature from the romanticism of the 1820s to realism and its allied movements, local color and naturalism, in the later part of the century. In addition to traditional works by "American Renaissance" writers such as Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, and Hawthorne, we will read mid-century works by Fuller, Alcott, Stowe, Douglass, Jacobs, Davis, and other writers concerned with issues of gender, race, and social justice. We will also discuss the roots of realism in such movements as Southwestern humor before reading Twain, James, Zitkala-Sa, Chesnutt, and Jewett. The readings are thematically linked by the authors' attempts to define the American artist's relationship to an emerging national identity.

Schedule of Assignments

This schedule should be regarded as a tentative guide to the assignments; it may well be changed as the semester progresses.  Because good, in-depth class discussion is more important than keeping up with the schedule, you should not be disturbed if some selections are omitted or if we appear to fall behind.  If you are absent, please check with me or with a classmate to make sure of the assignment.

You should read each day's assignment carefully and come to class prepared to discuss the reading. In addition, you should bring with you a question or comment about the day's assignment written on a 3 x 5 index card.  I will collect these regularly and use them in the day's class discussion.

All course materials handed out in class are available at the following site:
http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/index.html
In addition, this site contains bibliographies on many of the authors and works covered in the course as well as links to selected sites with materials relevant to the work covered in English 311/511.
 

Report days

Exam days

No class

Written assignment due

Week	Date	Reading	Additional Assignments and Reports	English 511
1	1/16	Introduction
	1/18	American Romanticism “Israfel” (1485); “To Helen” (1484-5) “The Philosophy of Composition” (1572-80)
2	1/21	No Class: Martin Luther King Holiday
	1/23	Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1508-1521)
	1/25	Meet in Writing Lab,  AD 134	Sign up for reports
3	1/28	American Transcendentalism Emerson, Nature, esp. ch. 1-4 (1072-1101) "Hamatreya" (1217); "Each and All" (1215)
	1/30	Individualism and Dissent Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1126-44) “The Divinity School Address”
	2/1	Reports: Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott	Reports
4	2/4	4  Emerson, "Thoreau" (1202-1215) Walden (1768-1943), especially chapters 1, 2, 9, 12, 16, and 17	Prospectus Due for Paper 1	Crews, "Whose American Renaissance?" Baym, "Melodramas of Beset Manhood"  Alcott, "Behind a Mask"
	2/6	Thoreau, Walden (continued)
	2/8	Thoreau, Walden (continued) Alcott, "Transcendental Wild Oats" (2560-73)
5	2/11	Reports: Douglass, Jacob, and the Slave Narrative Reports		Keckley, Behind the Scenes, Chapters 1-3 Jean Fagan Yellin's introduction
	2/13	Abolitionism and The Slave Narrative Douglass, Narrative (1990-2057)
	2/15	Jacobs, Incidents (1717-1739)	Paper 1 Revision Option Due Date
6	2/18	6  No Class: Presidents’ Day Holiday
	2/20	Exam 1	Exam 1
	2/22	American Renaissance  Hawthorne and Melville Hawthorne, “Rappaccini’s Daughter”  Preface to The House of the Seven Gables
7	2/25	Melville, “Hawthorne and His Mosses” (2261-73) Hawthorne,“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (1223-36)	Paper 1 Due	"Melville's Fist"
	2/27	Melville, Billy Budd  (2432-2488)
	3/1	Billy Budd, continued
8	3/4	Reports: Whitman and Dickinson Reports	Extra Credit Opportunity: Lecture by Alfred Habegger, author of My Wars are Laid Away in Books, a biography of Emily Dickinson	Discussion of poems.
	3/6	Nineteenth Century American Poetry: Dickinson and Whitman Dickinson (read all 2488-253, including letters, but especially poems numbered 67, 185, 199, 214, 216, 258, 303, 305, 315, 326, 328, 341, 441, 435, 448, 449, 465, 501, 505, 712, 732, 754, 1129, 1624)
	3/8	Dickinson (continued)
9	3/11-15	Spring Break: No Class
10	3/18	The Struggle for Women’s Rights and the "Other" American Renaissance Fuller, The Great Lawsuit (1590-1626) Fern, Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (1706-1717)		Melville, "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" Selections from the Lowell Offering
	3/20	Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills” 2484
	3/22	Whitman, "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking" (2161-65)
11	3/25	Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” (2175-81)		"Song of Myself"
	3/27	Exam 2	Exam 2
	3/29	Southwestern Humor  Thorpe, "The Big Bear of Arkansas" (1739-49) Twain, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
12	4/1	No Class: Easter Holiday
	4/3	Reports on Twain, Howells and James
	4/5	Mark Twain  “The Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech”(handout)  “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” (541-556) Letters, pp. 750-751, 760-764, 773-776, 780-785 Reports Prospectus Due for Paper 2
13	4/8	Huckleberry Finn (all)		"The Mysterious Stranger"
	4/10	Huckleberry Finn, continued
	4/12	Huckleberry Finn (debate)
14	4/15	Classic Realism: Howells and James Howells, "Editha" and selections on realism (handout)
	4/17	James, Daisy Miller Paper 2 Revision Option Due Date
	4/19	No Class: Reading Day
15	4/22	Reports: Local Color and Regionalism Reports		Pryse's essay on "The Foreigner" Fetterley, "Not in the Least American" Zagarell, "Crosscurrents of Nordicism"
	4/24	Local Color and Regionalism  Chesnutt,  "The Sheriff's Children"(ALCW  26-44) Dunbar-Nelson, “The Stones of the Village” (ALCW  47-70)
	4/26	Jewett, “The Foreigner” (ALCW 243-269) Freeman, “A New England Nun” (ALCW  211-224)	Paper 2 Due
16	4/29	Zitkala-Sa, “The Soft-Hearted Sioux” (ALCW  408-414) Sui Sin Far, “Its Wavering Image” (ALCW  351-373)		Wharton, The Age of Innocence
	5/1	Mena, “The Vine-Leaf” (ALCW 422-428) Chopin, “The Storm” (ALCW 74-79)
	5/3	Discussion
		Exam 3 will be held during the final exam time slot specified in the Spring 2002 Course Offerings booklet.

Course Policies

Attendance.  Attendance is required. According to the Gonzaga University Student Handbook, after six hours of unexcused absences, or six class periods in a course that meets three times a week, students will receive a grade of "V," which "has the same effect as an 'F' on the grade point average" (87).  Being 5 minutes late on three occasions or more than 10 minutes late on any one occasion will count as an absence.

Disability Support Services.  If you have a disability that affects your ability to access materials or information in this course, please contact Disability Support Services on the third floor of the AD building as soon as possible so that any necessary accommodations can be made.

Class Participation.  Your participation in class discussions is important and is an essential part of your grade.

Plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of another person’s words or sentence structures without acknowledging the source.

• Remember, materials from websites as well as printed matter must be cited properly. You cannot simply cut and paste quotations into your text without attribution.
• The MLA Guidelines published in the Bedford Handbook, MLA Handbook, and other sources will tell you how to cite materials, as will the MLA website guidelines for citing electronic materials.  All of these are available (free) online at the Writing Lab website: (http://www.gonzaga.edu/writinglab/index.html).
• Penalties for plagiarism range from a minimum of an F on the paper to an F in the course, suspension, or expulsion from the university, according to the rules set forth in Gonzaga University’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Examinations. The course includes three equally weighted examinations.

Formal Papers or Web Project.

Formal Papers. Students in English 311/511 will write two formal papers, a short (5-6 pages) analytical interpretation of a work, and a longer analytical paper (8-10 pages) that will require some research. A list of paper topics will be handed out well before the papers are due.

Web Project: Annotated Story Edition. One option to a formal paper for the second (longer) paper assignment is to prepare an annotated hypertext of one story, chapter, theme, or character for posting on the web.

• Your hypertext would define words, analyze images and themes, and provide a brief bibliography of works consulted.  The analysis should be detailed and insightful, just as it would be in a paper. About 75% of the grade will be based on the analysis; the remaining 25% will be based on features of your web page: Does the presentation enhance the reader’s understanding of the story? Is it easy to navigate and attractive to view? Are relevant external links included?
• This option provides the opportunity to share your work with a broader audience, since if the project turns out well, it can be linked to other sites and become a useful resource for others.  You may work in a group if you choose this option; all participants will share in the final grade
• Your group will also need to write a 2-3 page rationale explaining why you made the choices you did in terms of analysis.
• You need not have technical knowledge of web pages to choose this option; I can show you what you need to know.

Format. Papers must be neatly typed and carefully proofread. Citations should follow MLA style as it is outlined in the MLA Handbook or other handbooks such as the Bedford Handbook.

Option to Revise. I strongly encourage you to bring in drafts of your papers well before they are due so that we can confer about the subject and style of your paper.

Students also have the option to hand in papers early and to resubmit them for credit on the usual due date, an option for which the following rules apply:

• Revising a paper does not guarantee a higher grade the second time around.
• The revision option is a no-risk proposition, however, for if the paper receives a higher grade the second time, both grades will be averaged and counted toward the final course grade.
• Resubmitted papers that receive a lower grade will not be counted.
• Papers will not receive extensive comments on the second grading.
• Please note that this option does not constitute an editing service: papers that exhibit too many mechanical or spelling errors will be turned back unread.

• Late papers are penalized at the rate of one letter grade per class day late.
• Missed papers receive a 0. Handing a paper in late is preferable to not handing one in at all. If you miss handing in a paper, it is unlikely that you will pass the course.
• You are allowed one 48-hour extension without penalty if you speak to me about it before the paper is due.
• In addition to, or instead of, turning in your essays in paper form, you will need to send me (campbedm@gmail.com) a computer-readable version of your paper. You can do this in any one of these ways:

o Paste a copy of the paper into an e-mail message and send it to me.
o Send me the paper as an attachment.
o Use the Paper Submission Form at http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/papersin.htm
o Put the paper in the Digital Drop Box on Blackboard.

Students will research a topic of interest to the class and present a clear, concise (5-7 minutes) oral report on their findings on selected report days.  Those who do not wish to present their findings orally will be expected to write a 5-6 page paper or to prepare a web page on their topic instead.  On the report signup day, please indicate if you intend to write a paper or prepare a web page instead of presenting an oral report.

Online Discussion and Cards

• Cards. Since this course does not require a reading journal, students should instead come to class prepared with a 3 x 5" index card on which is written a question on, comment about, or favorite quotation from the day's reading.  Cards will not be graded individually but will be used in both class discussions and small group discussions. You can also use the questions or comments you write on your cards on the online discussion list.
• Online Discussion. In addition, in lieu of an individual reading journal, this class will have a community reading journal—an online discussion component in which you’ll provide thoughtful, in-depth responses to the readings.

• How do I join the e-mail list? To subscribe to the list, send a message to majordomo@gonzaga.edu
• Leave the subject line blank. In the message section, write the following and then send this message: subscribe engl311-l
• Note that there’s a lower-case L, not a one, at the end of engl311-l. If you use a signature file, please delete it; there should be nothing in the message except "subscribe engl311-l"  (without the quotation marks).

• To send a message to the list, put this in the TO: line engl311-l@gonzaga.edu
• Write your subject in the subject space and your message in the message space, and then send your message. It will appear in the e-mail boxes of the other people in the class as well as on the archive page. You can also reply to messages.

• If you want to, you can delete all the mail coming from engl311-l and then go to the archives to read the messages. The archive is located at  http://ns2.gonzaga.edu/engl311-l.In this way, you can read through a series of posts and then send your own message to the list.

• You should plan to contribute to the discussion page at least once a week. Each week, you’ll post a question (usually from your comment cards) or a comment in response to the other questions and comments posted at the site. You are, of course, welcome to post more frequently than this.
• Writing all 15 messages in the last week of class or another short space of time won’t be acceptable.
• You can also use the questions or comments you write on your daily cards as a message to post to the online discussion list.

Number of posts by 5/3/02 Grade (if quality is acceptable)
15+ A
12-14 B
10-11 C
7-9 D
0-6 F

I will periodically count the number of posts that you contribute and put that number into the Blackboard Gradebook (available online; only you can see your own grades) so that you can see the number. Posts that say simply "I agree" or other extremely brief messages won’t be counted.
Individual posts will not be graded for either content or style, but the overall quality of your contributions to the discussion will be evaluated at the end of the semester.
I hate discussion lists and don't want to participate.  What then?

• Those who don't want to participate have the option to write an additional 5-6 page paper, due 5/3/02. The grade for this paper will replace the online discussion grade.
• You can also write the paper if for some reason you haven't been able to keep up with the discussion list.

Brief reading quizzes, brief in-class responses to the reading, and short out-of-class response papers may be given from time to time.

Approximate Weights of Grades

Paper 1:    15%
Paper 2:    25%
Report:     10%
Exams:      35%
Online Discussion     5%
Cards, in-class writings, responses, group presentations, quizzes, and class participation: 10%