The reading list

Follow this link to see what the specific assignment is:

http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/english/graduate/readinglists.pdf

Enjoy.

The schedule

Week 1 is next week, the 13th-19th; we'll carry on from there. The groupings are not ideal, but hopefully, they'll do.


1. Moby Dick
2. Smith to Edwards
3. Franklin to Cooper
4. Emerson to Thoreau
5. Whitman and Dickinson (and bleed-over from previous week)
6. Twain to James
7. Dreiser to Wharton
8. The poets on this page, except Langston Hughes
9. Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner
10. Hughes and Hurston to Brooks
11. The poets on the last page
12. Ellison and Morrison
13. Kingston, Hwang, Anzaldua
14. Williams, Miller, and DeLillo (clean-up week)

The first posting

Read Moby Dick. Pause. Reflect. Post. Congratulate self.