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620:284   Seminar in Literature:  Writing Gender in Early America

Spring 2001

Dr. Anne Myles

University of Northern Iowa

Citations for readings listed on syllabus as of 1/16.   List does not include works in books you have been asked to purchase.  They’re listed in more or less the order they appear on the syllabus.

Ed Ingebretsen, “Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr: Witch-Hunts and General Wickedness in Public.”  In The Puritan Origins of American Sex:  Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Culture, eds. Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska.  New York:  Routledge, 2001.

 

Ivy Schweitzer, The Work of Self-Representation:  Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

 

Michael Warner, “New English Sodom.”  In Jonathan Goldberg, ed., Queering the Renaissance.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1994.

 

Nicholas F. Radel, “A Sodom Within:  Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics in the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth.”  In The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Culture, eds. Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska.  New York:  Routledge, 2001.

 

Edmund Morgan, The Puritan Family.  New York:  Harper and Row, 1966.

 

Pattie Cowell, “Puritan Women Poets in America.”  In Puritan Poets and Poetics:  Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, ed. Peter White.  University Park:  Penn State UP Press, 1985.

 

Rosamond Rosenmeier, “The Wounds Upon Bathsheba:  Anne Bradstreet’s Prophetic Art.”  In Puritan Poets and Poetics:  Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, ed. Peter White.  University Park:  Penn State UP Press, 1985.

 

Patricia Caldwell, “Why Our First Poet Was a Woman: Bradstreet and the Birth of an American Poetic Voice.”  Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural

Studies 13 (1988): 1-35.

 

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives:  Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750.  New York:  Random House, 1991. (Orig. published 1980).

 

Lad Tobin, “A Radically Different Voice:  Gender and Language in the Trials of Anne Hutchinson.” Early American Literature, vol. 25, no. 3 (1990): 253-270.

 

Marilyn Westerkamp, “Puritan Patriarchy and the Problem of Revelation.”  Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 23, no. 3 (1993): 571-595.

 

Elizabeth Reis, Damned Women:  Sinners and Witches in Colonial New England.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, 1997.

 

Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman:  Anne Hutchinson and the Problem of Dissent in the Literature of New England.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press, 1987.

 

Hugh Barbour and Arthur O. Roberts, eds.  Early Quaker Writings, 1650-1700.  Grand Rapids, MI:  William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973.

 

Anne Myles, “From Monster to Martyr:  Re-Presenting Mary Dyer.”  Early American Literature 36.1 (2001): [pages?]

 

Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women:  Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England.  Berkeley and Los Angeles:  University of California Press, 1992.

 

Michele Lise Tarter, “Quaking in the Light:  The Politics of Quaker Women’s Corporeal Prophecy in the Seventeenth-Century Transatlantic World.”  In ‘A Centre of Wonders’:  The Body in Early America, ed. Michele Tarter and Janet Lindman.  Ithaca:  Cornell UP, forthcoming (2001).

 

Christopher Castiglia, from Bound and Determined:  Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood from Mary Rowlandson to Patty Hearst.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1996.

 

Michelle Burnham, from Captivity and Sentiment: Cultural Exchange in American Literature.  Hanover:  University Press of New England, 1997.

 

Steven Neuwirth, “Her Master’s Voice:  Gender, Speech, and Gendered Speech in the Narrative of the Captivity of Mary White Rowlandson.”  In Sex and Sexuality in Early America, ed. Merril D. Smith.  New York:  NYU Press, 1998.

 

June Namias, White Captives:  Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

 

Mark Kann, from A Republic of Men:  The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics.  New York:  NYU Press, 1998.

 

Linda Kerber, from Women of the Republic:  Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

 

Kenneth Lockridge, On the Sources of Patriarchal Rage:  The Commonplace Books of William Byrd and Thomas Jefferson.  Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

 

Mary Beth Norton, from Liberty’s Daughters:  The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Company, 1980.

 

Richard Godbeer, “William Byrd’s ‘Flourish’:  The Sexual Cosmos of a Southern Planter.”  In Sex and Sexuality in Early America, ed. Merril D. Smith.  New York:  NYU Press, 1998.

 

Dennis Moore, ed., More Letters from an American Farmer:  An Edition of theEssays in English Left Unpublished by Crèvecoeur. Athens:  University of Georgia Press, 1995.

 

Bruce Burgett, from Sentimental Bodies:  Sex, Gender, and Citizenship in the Early Republic.  Princeton:  Princeton UP, 1998.

 

Anne Myles, “Elegiac Patriarchs:  Crèvecoeur, Revolution, and the Conflict of Masculinities.”  Unpublished conference paper.

 

Andrew Burstein, from Sentimental Democracy:  The Evolution of America’s Romantic Self-Image.  New York:  Hill and Wang, 1999.

 

Cathy Davidson, Revolution and the Word:  The Rise of the Novel in America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1986.

 

Elizabeth Barnes, States of Sympathy:  Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel.  New York:  Columbia UP, 1997.

 

Julia Stern, The Plight of Feeling:  Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novel.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1997.

 

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Domesticating Virtue:  Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Young America.”  In Literature and the Body, ed. Elaine Scarry.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

 

Heather Smyth, “Imperfect Disclosures:  Cross-Dressing and Containment in Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond.  In Sex and Sexuality in Early America, ed. Merril D. Smith.  New York:  NYU Press, 1998.

 

Judith Hiltner, “‘She Bled in Secret’: Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann and The Female Review.  Early American Literature 34.2 (1999):190-220.

 

Susan Juster, Demagogues or Mystagogues? Gender and the Language of Prophecy in the

Age of Democratic Revolutions. The American Historical Review 105.1 (1999): 44 pars. 16 Jan. 2001 <http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/104.5/ah001560.html>.