Kent-Drury
English 420/655
Summer 2003
Tentative Schedule of Assignments*

 
Date
Topic/Reading Assignment
Presentations
Week 1  
   7/14 Intro to course; Raiders of the Lost Ark
Study Questions
 
   7/15 Four Voyages of Columbus, 2nd Voyage 
Study Questions
P: Geertz, "Thick Description."  (RKD)
 7/16 Four Voyages of Columbus, 3rd Voyage P: Pratt, "Arts of the Contact Zone (RKD)
  7/17 Four Voyages of Columbus, 4th Voyage 
P: Campbell, "Mandeville" (RKD)
   7/18 Cabeza de Vaca, 1st 1/2 
Study Questions
P: Montaigne, Michel de. "Of Cannibals." Essays. (RKD)
Week 2    
   7/21 Cabeza de Vaca, 2nd 1/2 P: Hulme, "Columbus" 
P:Hulme, "Caribs" 
   7/22 More, Utopia, 1st 1/2 
Utopia Definitions
Study Questions
P:  Las Casas 
P:  Withers
  7/23 More, Utopia, 2nd 1
   7/24 Oroonoko,1st 1/2 
Worksheet
Study Questions
P:  Brown, Laura. 
   7/25 Oroonoko, 2nd 1/2
Week 3    
   7/28 Robinson Crusoe, 1st 3rd 
Study Questions
P: Wheeler, Roxann. " 'My Savage,' 'My Man': Racial Multiplicity in Robinson Crusoe.
   7/29 RC, 2nd 3rd P: Hulme, Peter. "Robinson Crusoe & Friday"
  7/30 RC, 2nd 3rd  
   7/31 RC, final 3rd P: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Turkish Letters
   8/1 Gullivers Travels, Book 1 
Study Questions
 
 Week 4    
   8/4 GT, Book 4 P: Theodore de Bry. Engravings of Native American Life. (also available as oversized book in Library)
   8/5    
   8/6 Candide, 1st half 
Definitions
Study Questions
Candide, 2nd half
P: Sayre, Gordon. "John Smith & Samuel de Champlain: Founding Fathers & Their Indian Relations" 
P:Hulme, Peter. "John Smith & Pocahontas" 
   8/7 American Captivity Narratives, Chapter 1 
  Staden 18-58 

ACN, Chapter 2, John Smith, p. 83-91 
Study Questions

P: Sayre, Gordon. "War, Captivity, Adoption, Torture" 
   8/8 ACN, Chapter 3 
  Jogues 91-121 
  Regnaut 121-127 
Film: Black Robe 
Study Questions 

ACN, Chapter 4, Mary Rowlandson 
Film: Black Robe 
Study Questions

 
Week 5    
   8/11 Equiano 
ACN, 225-257
Study Questions
P: Recent Equiano scholarship
   8/12 Mungo Park
67-121
   8/13 Mungo Park 
122-181
P:  Daniels, Seymour, & Watkins 
   8/14 Mungo Park
182-263
 
   8/15 Final Exam; Paper due  Quotations for the Final
Paper due
*Syllabus is subject to change at instructor's discretion.

Useful websites:
Medieval/Renaissance World View
 

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Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury