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MIT OpenCourseWare
American Authors: Autobiography and Memoir
- Instructor
- Dr. Wyn Kelley
- Term
- Fall 2013
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.512 American Authors: Autobiography and Memoir, Fall 2013, Dr. Wyn Kelley — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Mary Rowlandson, Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Lecture 3: Benjamin Franklin, selections from the Autobiography
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Lecture 6: Harriet Jacobs, selections from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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Lecture 7: Mark Twain, selections from Roughing It
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Lecture 8: Discussion and peer review of Essay 1
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Lecture 26: Conclusion
MIT OpenCourseWare, Dr. Wyn Kelley, 21L.512 American Authors: Autobiography and Memoir, Fall 2013.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2013 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
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