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Weekly Schedule:

INTRODUCING HAWTHORNE & HIS CONTEXTS

Week 1

Course Introduction

Week 2

Hawthorne's Literary World: Related Reports
Melville
Margaret Fuller
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A. Bronson Alcott
Emerson
Horation Bridge
Sophia Peabody
Thoreau
Brook Farm
George Ripley
The Old Manse
Poe

SHORT FICTION

Week 3

"Alice Doan's Appeal"
"Egotism"
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment "
"Mr. Higginbottam's Catastrophe"

Week 4

"Wakefield"
"Young Goodman Brown"
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux"

Week 5

"The May-Pole of Merry Mount"
"The Minister's Black Veil"
"The Gentle Boy"

Week 6

"The Gray Champion"
"The Man of Adamant"
"The Birthmark"
"Mrs. Bullfrog"

Week 7

"Ethan Brand"
"Endicott and the Red Cross"
"Roger Malvin's Burial"

Week 8

"Rappaccini's Daughter"
"The Artist of the Beautiful"

"The Celestial Railroad"

NOVELS

Week 9

The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Week 10

The House of the Seven Gables (1851)

Week 11

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

Week 12

The Marble Faun (1860)

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Week 16