HUM 2450.A01/A02 CORRECTEDAssignments
06/07-06/11/04 (Week 5)
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for MONDAY June 7
-- Continue course notes for this section
-- Pohl Ch.3 130-171, Ch.4 185-194
for TUESDAY June 8
Course notes for this section available online now!
Online readings:
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, first chapter of Nature [1849]. In this first chapter of Nature, Emerson encapsulates much of the Transcendentalist view toward the possible relationship between the human and natural worlds, focusing on the emotions, intuition, and the child-like.
--also, a few choice quotations from Emerson to sample his thinking.
--Henry David Thoreau, the final chapter of Walden, [1854] wherein Thoreau picks up much of Emerson's thought from another text ("Self-Reliance") and writes about trying to put them into practice. (This site is particularly nice for the hyper-notes it offers within the text.)
--also, a few choice quotations from Thoreau.
--Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [1845]. In this famous poem, Poe conveys much that fascinated the late American Romantic and Transcendentalist mind: the emoitions, intuition, the individual, and the often darker powers of nature and the imagination.
for WEDNESDAY June 9.
Course notes for this section available online now!
-- Pohl Ch.3 171-174, 258-260, 263-66
for THURSDAY June 10
-- Pohl Ch.3 269-282
Online readings:
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "Declaration of Sentiments" [1848]. The convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two Quakers whose concern for women's rights was aroused when Mott, as a woman, was denied a seat at an international antislavery meeting in London. The Seneca Falls meeting attracted 240 sympathizers, including forty men, among them the famed former slave and abolitionist leader, Frederick Douglass. The delegates adopted a statement, deliberately modeled on the Declaration of Inde-pendence, as well as a series of resolu-tions calling for women's suffrage and the reform of marital and property laws that kept women in an inferior status.
-- Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman?" [1851]. Delivered at the later Women's Convention of 1851 in Akron, Ohio, this speech by Sojourner Truth, former slave, emphasizes the extent to which black women had been left out of the Women's Movement, despite that movement's alliances with the Abolition struggle. Truth indicates the blind spots inherent to most "emancipation" drives of the day.
for FRIDAY June 11--Journal #2 due -- see Cultural Events & Sample Journal page for guidelines and assignment.
-- Pohl Ch.3 197-211
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