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This page provides a detailed calendar of course readings, sessions, and assignments.
Course Schedule Information
| Session | Topic | Readings | Resources |
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| 1 | Democracy and Tradition | Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition, Introduction and Chapter 1 F.O. Matthiessen, "Method and Scope," from American Renaissance Timothy Powell, Ruthless Democracy, "Introduction" (preview) Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" Henry Highland Garnet, "An Address to the Slaves" Walt Whitman, selections from Democratic Vistas |
Handout: Major Types of Democracy (pdf) |
| 2 | Democratic Pasts | Josiah Ober, "Historical Legacies: Moral Authority and the Usable Past" Pericles's "Funeral Oration" Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address Daniel Webster, The Plymouth Oration William Apess, "Eulogy on King Philip" |
Library of Congress Exhibition: The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg Address (video) Lincoln's Legend & Legacy (video) |
| 3 | Foundations of Democracy | Henry David Thoreau, Walden Walter Benn Michaels, "Walden's False Bottoms" |
Thoreau's Walden multimedia resources |
| 4 | Puritan Legacies and Jacksonian Democracy | Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, through page 60 (Vol. 1) Nathaniel Hawthorne, House of the Seven Gables Judith N. Shklar, "Hawthorne in Utopia" Edward L. Widmer, "Democracy in Literature" |
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| 5 | Democracy and the Public Sphere | Jurgen Habermas, "Social Structures of the Public Sphere" (preview) Nancy Fraser, "Rethinking the Public Sphere" (preview) Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Vol. 1-2) |
Democracy in America (online resources) |
| 6 | Transnational Spaces of Democracy | Anna Brickhouse, "Introduction: Transamerican Renaissance" Daniel Webster, Bunker Hill Monument Address, Speech on the Panama Mission Simon Bolivar, "The Jamaica Letter" Paul Gilroy, "The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity" David Walker, Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World |
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| 7 | Democratic Discourse | Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, "Hegemony and Radical Democracy" Iris Marion Young, "Inclusive Political Communication" Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglass, "The Ottawa Debate" Sojourner Truth, "Ain't I a Woman" Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Wendell Phillips, "Toussaint L'Ouverture" |
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" (Time Magazine article) |
| 8 | Mediating Democracy | Harvey Graff and John Duffy, "Literacy Myths" Harvey Graff, "The Nineteenth-Century Origin of Our Times" Michael Schudson, "Click Here for Democracy" Sandra M. Gustafson, "Margaret Fuller and the Forms of Sentiment" Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century |
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| 9 | Democracy and The Book | Jorge Luis Borges, "On the Cult of Books" Walter D. Mignolo, from "Signs and their Transmission" Herman Melville, Moby-Dick |
Moby-Dick |
| 10 | The Novel as Democratic Form | Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Sandra Gustafson, "Democratic Fictions" Jane Tompkins, "Sentimental Power" |
Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture (multi-media archive) |
| 11 | Dramas of Race | Eric Lott, "Uncle Tomitudes: Racial Melodrama and Modes of Production" Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon William Wells Brown, Clotel |
The Silent Film Still Archive: The Octoroon |
| 12 | Outlaws in the Cultural Borderlands | John Rollin Ridge, The Life of Adventures of Joaquin Murieta Shelley Streeby, "Joaquin Murieta and Popular Culture" |
"Murieta" (movie clip) |
| 13 | Dickinson and the Politics and Poetics of Medium | Emily Dickinson, selected poems Susan Howe, "Flames and Generosities" Betsy Erkilla, "The Emily Dickinson Wars" Martha Nell Smith, "Dickinson's Manuscripts" Browse The Dickinson Archive |
The Dickinson Archive |
| 14 | Whitman and the Forms of Democracy | Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1855 edition), "Salut au Monde," "I Sing the Body Electric," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Passage to India," "Prayer of Columbus" Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Michael Moon, Allen Grossman, Betsy Erkilla, critical essays included in the Norton edition of Leaves of Grass Kenneth Cmiel, "Whitman the Democrat" Browse The Walt Whitman Archive |
The Walt Whitman Archive |
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