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Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Dr. Wyn Kelley
Term: Fall 2004
Level: Undergraduate
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This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Frederick Douglass, Narrative (1845)

Lecture 3: Douglass

Lecture 4: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Lecture 5: Stowe

Lecture 6: Stowe (cont.)

Lecture 7: Wells Brown, Clotel (1853)

Lecture 8: Brown

Lecture 9: Melville, “Benito Cereno” (1853, 1856)

Lecture 10: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dred (1856)

Lecture 11: Stowe

Lecture 12: Stowe (cont.)

Lecture 13: Martin Delany, Blake (1861)

Lecture 14: Delany

Lecture 15: Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

Lecture 16: Jacobs

Lecture 17: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

Lecture 18: Twain

Lecture 19: Twain (cont.)

Lecture 20: Frances Harper, Iola Leroy (1892)

Lecture 21: Harper

Lecture 22: Conference Day

Lecture 23: Mark Twain, Puddn’head Wilson (1894)

Lecture 24: Twain

Lecture 25: Charles Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901)

Lecture 26: Conference Day

Lecture 27: Chesnutt

Lecture 28: Conclusion