Cyrus Patell: American Literature, From the Beginnings to the Civil War
By Open Ed
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Description
This course is a survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War. Our goal will be to acquire a grasp of the canon of American literature as it is typically conceived and the various logics behind its construction. Topics to be considered include: the rise of “literature” as a discipline unto itself; the meaning of American individualism; the conflict between liberty and equality in American social thought; the mythology of American exceptionalism; the relation between history and cultural mythology; the dialectic of freedom and slavery in American rhetoric; the American obsession with race; the ideology of domesticity and its link to the sentimental; the aesthetics of American romance; the role of biography in literary criticism and historiography; the nature of the “American Renaissance”; what it means to say “NO in thunder!” and why so many American writers seem to say it; deliberative democracy and cosmopolitanism.
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1 | VideoIntroduction | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, introduction | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | VideoMoby-Dick (I) | -- | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | VideoThe Literature of Settlement | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, literature of settlement | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | VideoAmerican Puritanism (I) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, one, herman melville, hawthorne | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | VideoAmerican Puritanism (II) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, two, john winthrop, mary rowlandson | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | VideoAmerican Puritanism (III) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, three, anne bradstreet, michael wigglesworth, edward taylor | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | VideoAmerican Neoclassicism | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american neoclassicism, francis scott key, phillis wheatley, phillip freneau | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | VideoEdwards and the Transition to Enlightenment | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, jonathan edwards, transition to enlightenment | 10/5/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | VideoThe American Enlightenment | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american enlightenment, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | VideoAmerican Gothic (I) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, one, charles brockden brown, edgar huntly | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | VideoAmerican Gothic (II) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, two, thomas gray, joel barlow, william cullen bryant, edgar allen poe | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | VideoAmerican Gothic (III) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, three, edgar allen poe, frederick douglass | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | VideoAmerican Transcendentalism (I) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendentalism, one, john locke, ralph waldo emerson | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | VideoAmerican Transcendentalism (II) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendentalism, two, ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | VideoAmerican Transcendentalism (III) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, three, henry david thoreau | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | VideoAmerican Transcendentalism (IV) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, four, ralph waldo emerson, walt whitman | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
17 | VideoAmerican Transcendentalism (V) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, five, walt whitman | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
18 | VideoFrederick Douglass | -- | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
19 | VideoUncle Tom's Cabin (I) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, uncle tom's cabin, one, harriet beecher stowe | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
20 | VideoUncle Tom's Cabin (II) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, uncle tom's cabin, two, harriet beecher stowe | 10/6/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
21 | VideoNathaniel Hawthorne (I) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, nathaniel hawthorne | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
22 | VideoNathaniel Hawthorne (II) | -- | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
23 | VideoMoby Dick (II) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, two | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
24 | VideoMoby Dick (III) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, three | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
25 | VideoMoby Dick (IV) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, four | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
26 | VideoMoby Dick (V) | Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, five | 10/8/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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