Kent-Drury
English 655
Revised Schedule*
Date |
Reading Assignment |
Due |
| Week 1 | Intro to Course |
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| 8/21 | Syllabus Research topics Exploration literature, readers & reading Medieval/Renaissance World View Model Precis: Geertz, "Thick Description" (Dr. KD) |
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| Week 2 | Exploration and Discovery--Columbus | |
| 8/28 | Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (1492-1504) Recommended reading Montaigne, "Of Cannibals" Guaman Poma de Ayala, The First New Chronicle of Good Government |
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9/4 is Labor Day |
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| Week 3 | Perfect place or No place? | |
| 9/11 | Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1518) Vespucci, Amerigo. Mondus Novus. 1504. Pagden, Anthony."Intro to European Encounters with the New World from the Renaissance to Romanticism" Recommended Reading: Shakespeare, The Tempest
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Precis: Pagden |
| Week 4 | Exploration and Disaster--The Narvaez Expedition | |
| 9/18 | Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways (1528-1536) Plagiarism/MLA Workshop (self test) Recommended Reading: TBS |
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| Week 5 | Exploration as National Epic | |
| 9/25 | Hakluyt, Richard. Principal Navigations of the English People. Recommended Reading: Helgerson, Richard. "Voyages of a Nation." Forms of Nationhood. Fuller, Mary. Voyages in Print: English Travel to America, 1576-1624. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. Feest, Christian, Ed. "This New Prey: Eskimos in Europe in 1567, 1576, and 1577." Indians and Europe. RaderVerlag. |
Bring Preliminary version of annotated bibliography |
| Week 6 | Early English Encounters in America | |
| 10/2 | Mancall, Peter. Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization of North America. Boston & New York: Bedford, 1995. Harriot. A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. 1590. New York: Dover, 1972. Recommended Reading: Sayre, "Founding Fathers and
their Indian Relations." |
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| Week 7 | Captivity Narratives | |
| 10/9 | Hans Staden (1557) Recommended Reading: Lery, "Voyage to Brazil" (Cindy Wright) Sayre, Gordon. Les Sauvage Americains |
Bring preliminary version of annotated bibliography |
| Week 8 | Fictional Captivities | |
| 10/16 | Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko Brown, Laura. "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Traffic in Slaves." Ends of Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1993. Recommended Reading: Wheeler, Roxann. Complexion of Race. |
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| Week 9 | Fictional Castaways | |
| 10/23 | Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719) Recommended Reading: Livingstone, "Human Condition" Nick Brown?) |
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| Week 10 | The Exotic and the Absurd | |
| 10/30 | Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels Montagu. Turkish Letters Recommended Reading: Voltaire. Candide. |
Title & 1 paragraph description of paper due |
| Week 11 | African Captives | |
| 11/6 | Olaudah Equiano (1784) Recommended Reading: TBS |
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| Week 12 | Literature, Anthropology, and Natural History | |
| 11/13 | Hawkesworth, John. Cook's Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, Volumes II and III (1769-1771) (Excerpts assigned) Handout with Reading Assignment Recommended Reading: TBS |
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| Week 13 | Exploration After Cook | |
| 11/20 | Park, Mungo. Travels to the Interior of Africa Recommended Reading: TBS |
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| Week 14 | Consultations on Papers | |
| 11/27 | ||
| Week 14 | Consultations on Papers | |
| 12/4 |
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| Final Exam | Tuesday, December 11, 4:30-6:30 pm | Paper Due |
*Subject to change at the discretion of the instructor.