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Course No. 250 (84 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Arnold Weinstein Brown University Ph.D., Harvard University
Course Lecture Titles 01. Introduction to Classics of American Literature 02. Benjamin Franklins Autobiography – The First American Story 03. Washington Irving – The First American Storyteller 04. Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday – Americas Coming of Age 05. Emerson Today – Architect of American Values 06. Emerson Tomorrow – Deconstructing Culture and Self 07. Henry David Thoreau – Countercultural Hero 08. Thoreau – Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire 09. Walden – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow 10. Edgar Allan Poe 11. Poe – Ghost Writer 12. Poes Legacy – The Self as “Haunted Palace” 13. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past 14. The Scarlet Letter – Puritan Romance 15. Hawthornes A – Interpretation and Semiosis 16. The Scarlet Letter – Political Tract or Psychological Study 17. Hawthorne Our Contemporary 18. Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick 19. The Biggest Fish Story of Them All 20. Ahab and the White Whale 21. Moby-Dick – Tragedy of Perspective 22. Melvilles Benito Cereno – American (Mis)adventure at Sea 23. Benito Cereno – Theater of Power or Power of Theater 24. Walt Whitman – The American Bard Appears 25. Whitman – Poet of the Body 26. Whitman – Poet of the City 27. Whitman – Poet of Death 28. The Whitman Legacy 29. Uncle Toms Cabin – The Unread Classic 30. Stowes Representation of Slavery 31. Freedom and Art in Uncle Toms Cabin 32. Emily Dickinson – In and Out of Nature 33. Dickinsons Poetry – Language and Consciousness 34. Dickinson – Devotee of Death 35. Dickinson – “Amhersts Madame de Sade” 36. Dickinsons Legacy 37. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – American Paradise Regained 38. Huckleberry Finn – The Banned Classic 39. Huckleberry Finn – A Childs Voice, a Childs Vision 40. Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan 41. Mark Twains Puddnhead Wilson – Black and White Charade 42. Henry James and the Novel of Perception 43. The Turn of the Screw – Do You Believe in Ghosts 44. Turning the Screw of Interpretation 45. Stephen Crane and the Literature of War 46. The Red Badge of Courage – Brave New World 47. Stephen Crane – Scientist of Human Behavior 48. Charlotte Perkins Gilman – War Against Patriarchy 49. The Yellow Wallpaper – Descent into Hell or Free at Last 50. Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England 51. Robert Frost – At Home in the Metaphor 52. Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth 53. T.S. Eliot – Unloved Modern Classic 54. T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land and Beyond 55. F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby – American Romance 56. The Great Gatsby – A Story of Lost Illusions 57. Fitzgeralds Triumph – Writing the American Dream 58. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises – Novel of the Lost Generation 59. The Sun Also Rises – Spiritual Quest 60. Ernest Hemingway – Wordsmith 61. Hemingways The Garden of Eden – Female Desire Unleashed
62. The Garden of Eden – Combat Zone 63. William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury – The Idiots Tale 64. The Sound and the Fury – Failed Rites of Passage 65. The Sound and the Fury – Signifying Nothing 66. Absalom, Absalom – Civil War Epic 67. Absalom, Absalom – The Language of Love 68. Absalom, Absalom – The Overpass to Love 69. The Grapes of Wrath – American Saga 70. John Steinbeck – Poet of the Little Man 71. The Grapes of Wrath – Reconceiving Self and Family 72. Invisible Man – Black Bildungsroman 73. Invisible Man – Reconceiving History and Race 74. Invisible Man – What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue 75. Eugene ONeill – Great God of American Theater 76. Long Days Journey Into Night – Theres No Place Like Home 77. Tennessee Williams – Managing Libido 78. A Streetcar Named Desire – The Death of Romance 79. Death of a Salesman – Death of an Ethos 80. Death of a Salesman – Tragedy of the American Dream 81. Toni Morrisons Beloved – Dismembering and Remembering 82. Beloved – A Story of Thick Love 83. Beloved – Morrisons Writing of the Body 84. Conclusion to Classics of American Literature
