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    The following list shows a summary of the topics covered in this course. To see all of the course pages, visit the Table of Contents.

    Module 1: Reading and Interpreting Literary Texts

    • How to Analyze a Short Story
    • A Short History of the Early American Novel
    • Approaching Poetry
    • Free Verse
    • Literary Terms: A Guide
    • Literary Criticism

    Module 2: Early American and Puritan Literature (1650–1750)

    • American Puritanism
    • A Model of Christian Charity
    • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
    • The Pilgrim’s Progress
    • Verses upon the Burning of Our House

    Module 3: Enlightenment Literature (1760–1820)

    • Video: Edwards and the Transition to Enlightenment
    • Video: The American Enlightenment
    • Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
    • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Module 4: Romantic Literature (1820–1860)

    • The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Essayists and Poets
    • Thanatopsis
    • Wakefield
    • Song of Myself
    • The Use of Nature in American Gothic
    • The Indian Burying Ground
    • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    • The Raven
    • History of American Literature
    • The Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism
    • Nature
    • The American Scholar
    • Self-Reliance
    • Walden
    • Women’s Sphere and the Emergence of the Women’s Rights Movement
    • Woman in the Nineteenth Century
    • Resistance and Abolition
    • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
    • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Module 5: Writing About Literature

    • Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
    • Annotated List of Useful Online Resources
    • Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
    • Annotated List of Useful Databases
    • Finding and Evaluating Research Sources
    • Finding Literary Criticism
    • Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Style
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