02.13

M

Of Revolution, Politics and Rights:

Mary Wollstonecraft: “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

02.15

W

Percy Bysshe Shelley “A Defence of Poetry”

Due: As discussed in class, 1pp. identifying an argument in Wollstonecraft that seems pressing or radical to you in today’s gendered realities, and one that seems more historically located — to you as a contemporary reader.

Early American

02.20

M

Origins and Encounters:
“The Iroquois Creation Story”; “First Encounters”
John Smith from A Description of New England
Anne Bradstreet “The Author to Her Book,” “Before the Birth of One of Her Children,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House”
Phillis Wheatley “On Being Brought from Africa to America”

02.22

W

Self and Identity:
Jonathan Edwards “Personal Narrative”

excerpts from Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography