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COURSE INTRODUCTION
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Unit 1: The American Renaissance in Context
1.1: The Influence of European Romanticism in America
1.2: Individuality, Conflict, and Context
1.3: President Jackson and Indian Removal
1.4: Jacksonian Democracy and the Self-Made Man
1.5: The Second Great Awakening and the Emergence of Transcendentalism
1.6: The "Transcendental Club" and "The Dial"
1.7: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Father of the Transcendental Movement
1.8: Competing Visions of Reform
Unit 1 Assessment
Unit 2: Continuity and Change in Poetic Form
2.1.1: Ralph Waldo Emerson
2.1.2: Edgar Allen Poe
2.2: The Question of Poetry's Social Role
2.3: Walt Whitman, Free Verse, and the Poetics of Democracy
2.4: Emily Dickinson and the Personal Lyric
Unit 2 Assessment
Unit 3: The Invention of the Short Story
3.1: "The Limit of One Sitting" and Concerns with Length
3.2: The Short Story's Artistry and Conventions
3.3: The Gothic, Suspense, and the Macabre
3.4: Building a New Genre with the Detective Story
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4: The Development of the Novel and its Various Forms
4.1: The Establishment of American Publishers and the Passage of Copyright Laws
4.2: The Rise of Literacy and Public Education in the Young Republic
4.3: The Popularity of the Novel
4.4: The Romance and Nathaniel Hawthorne
4.5: Sensationalism
4.6: Sentimentalism
Unit 4 Assessment
Unit 5: Nature and Technology: Creating and Challenging American Identity
5.1: Technology and Class Division
5.2: Economic Development
5.3: Urban Popular Culture, the Penny Press, and the New Social Order
5.4: Melville, Capitalism, and the Limits of Sympathy
5.5: The Move toward Realism in Davis' "Life in the Iron-Mills"
5.6: American Nature as Challenge to American Progress
Unit 5 Assessment
Unit 6: The Question of Women's Place in Society
6.1: Women's Rights in the Young Republic
6.2: Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Peabody, and the Transcendentalists
6.3: Law, Class, Race, and Marriage
6.4: Sentiment, Religion, and the Power of Womanhood
Unit 6 Assessment
Unit 7: The Slavery Controversy and Abolitionist Literature
7.1: Slavery and the Debate over Abolition
7.2: Manifest Destiny and the Expanding Western Frontier
7.3: Radical Abolition and The Liberator
7.4: The Slave Narrative
7.5: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Unit 7 Assessment
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