ENGL 6265: American Literature Seminar (Texts)

ENGL 6265: American Literature Seminar
Tom Shields
Fall 2002

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All of the following are required texts for the course:

Barth, John. The Sot-Weed Factor . New York: Doubleday, 1987.
Boone, Daniel, and Francis L. Hawks. Daniel Boone, His Own Story, and The Adventures of Daniel Boone . Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1995.
Galvin, Brendan. Saints in Their Ox-Hide Boats . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992.
Hill, Frances, ed. The Salem Witch Trials Reader . Cambridge, MA: Da Capo P-HarperCollins, 2000.
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar. The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación . Trans. José Fernandez and Martin Favata. Houston, TX: Arte Público P, 1993.
O'Meara, John J., trans. The Voyage of St. Brendan . Gerrards Cross, UK: Colin Smythe-Dufour Editions, 1981.

In addition, the following film and web-based texts will be used:

Cabeza de Vaca (film)
Cook, Ebenezer. The Sot-Weed Factor; or A Voyage to Maryland. 1708. Ed. Arthur Kay. February 1998. Renascence Editions: An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799. Ed. Richard Bear. 8 March 2002 ( http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/sotweed.htm ).
[Filson, John]. The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boone, Formerly a Hunter, Containing a Narrative of the Wars of Kentucky. 1784. Archiving Early America. 2001 ( http://earlyamerica.com/lives/boone/ ). OR The American Revolution: The Struggle for Independence. 2002 ( http://www.americasrevolution.com/article1057.html ).
Thanks (TV Show)

If you have access to other editions of these works, they can be used as well.

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