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Resistance to Civil Government (1849) by Henry David Thoreau

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I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe–”That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have.
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Who is Thoreau? HW#1 Read Resistance to Civil Government in Holt text.  

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Timeline of American Literature

http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/timefram.html

 

Units in Brief

UNIT  I    Puritanism and Manifest Destiny

Encounters: Explorers, Puritans, Native Americans

Columbus’s  Letters (1493) http://www.ushistory.org/documents/columbus.htm

 

Map of Columbus's four voyages: http://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/2400/2452/2452.htm

 

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542)   http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/cdv/

 

John Smith, A Description of New England (1616)  http://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/smith.html

 

John Winthrop (1630) http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/winthrop.htm

 

William Bradford (1630-1647) http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/14-bra.html

 

Geneva Bible & Authorized King James Version of the Bible (c. 1600-1610) http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

 

The Bay Psalm Book (1640) : http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm004.html

 

The New England Primer (1688)  http://www.iupui.edu/~engwft/nep.htm

 

Anne Bradstreet (1650) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/

 

Michael Wigglesworth (1662) http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry/wigglife.htm

 

Mary Rowlandson (Increase Mather) (1681) http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/captive.htm

 

 

 UNIT  II     Enlightenment and Liberty

Early American Literature: Awakening and Enlightenment

Jonathan Edwards (1741) http://edwards.yale.edu/about-edwards/legacy/ 

 

Jupiter Hammon (1760) http://www.lloydharborhistoricalsociety.org/jupiter.html

 

Phillis Wheatley: (1773) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Wheatley/philbio.htm

 

St. John de Crevecoeur, J. Hector (1782) 

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/treatise/american_farmer/letters.htm

 

Olaudah Equiano (1789)  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p276.html

 

Benjamin Franklin (c. 1730) http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/

 

Charles Brockden Brown (c. 1800) http://www.brockdenbrown.ucf.edu/biography/index.php

 

 

UNIT   III

Romanticism & Civil Conflict  

Poe’s Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhpoe1.html

 

Hawthorne’s Preface to The House of the Seven Gables http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/sgpf.html

 

Hawthorne & Native Americans http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/NativeAmericans&Blacks/Introduction.html

 

Melville's Hawthorne and His Mosses http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma96/atkins/cmmosses.html

 

Melville Bartleby the Scrivener http://web.ku.edu/~zeke/bartleby/

 

Melville's Moby-Dick Online with Annotation http://powermobydick.com/

 

Alexis de Tocqueville (Democracy in America, 1835) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/home.html

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)  http://www.rwe.org/

 

Henry David Thoreau (1854)  http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/

 

David Walker (1829) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2931.html

 

William Lloyd Garrison (1831)  http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/Slavery/williamlloydgarrison.html

 

Elijah P. Lovejoy (1837)  http://www.state.il.us/HPA/Lovejoy/bio.htm

 

Frederick Douglass (1845) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1539.html 

   

http://www.nps.gov/archive/frdo/freddoug.html

 

Sojourner Truth (c. 1850) http://www.sojournertruth.org/

 

Harriet A. Jacobs (1861)  http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/jacobs/hjhome.htm

 

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1830)  http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/sedgwick.htm

 

Margaret Fuller (1845) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/fuller/

 

Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1851)  http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/index.html

 

Twain's Huckleberry Finn http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/

 

Controversy: Twain censored and challenged http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/index.html

 

Frederick Jackson Turner Frontier Thesis http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/turner.htm

 

Zora Neale Hurston  http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/faces/hurston_text.html

 

 

UNIT IV  Modernism and Media Technologies.

Henry Adams, http://www.bartleby.com/159/25.html

 

Albert Einstein, http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/action/urgent-actions/einstein/

 

C.P. Snow,  Our Two Cultures

 

Marshall McLuhan, http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/main.html

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,  http://www.mlkonline.net/

 

Susan Sontag, http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sontag.htm

 

Thomas Pynchon, http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

 

N. Scott Momaday, http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/program/producers/momaday.htm

 

Maxine Hong Kingston, http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05252007/profile.html

 

 
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Ann Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University Bartleby hypertext notes and questions:

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/bartleby/

Haskell Springer, Professor of English atUniversity of Kansas, Bartleby's Blank Wall:

http://web.ku.edu/~zeke/bartleby/

LibriVox recording of Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. [Read by Bob Tassinari.]

http://www.archive.org/details/bartleby_scrivener_1107_librivox

 
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