Chair, Russ Castronovo. Jeffrey Steele. David Zimmerman.

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1 Todd J. Goddard Preliminary Exam List January 2009 Committee: Chair, Russ Castronovo. Jeffrey Steele. David Zimmerman. Rationale: The purpose of my list is to balance the historical list of American literature, represented primarily in the section Colonization, Settlement, and The Quest for Empire, with a more focused study of ecocriticism, American environmental history, land use, and American history. Ideas of Nature, which includes a sampling of foundational ecocritical texts, should provide an important introduction to that critical field while providing rich discussions of how Nature has historically been conceived of and figured in American culture. Property and Speculation, which includes texts relating to American history, especially the post-revolutionary period, property, and land speculation, should provide the necessary background for my anticipated dissertation research on American literature and land speculation, from about 1780 through I plan to focus my study on how land was conceptualized, measured, bought, and sold following the American Revolutionary War and how those ideas and practices were debated in American literature of the period. I expect that ecocriticism and environmental history will provide the theoretical underpinnings and methodology for the project. 1

2 Preliminary Exam Reading List [Todd J. Goddard] I. Colonization, Settlement, and The Quest for Empire: 1. ANN BRADSTREET. Poems in EAP. 2. WILLIAM BRADFORD. Of Plymouth Plantation. 3. EDWARD TAYLOR. Poems in EAP. 4. COTTON MATHER. Selections from Magnalia Christi Americana: General Introduction, John Winthrop, William Bradford, William Phips, John Cotton. 5. JONATHON EDWARDS. Personal Narrative, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Divine and Supernatural Light, Images or Shadows of Divine Things. 6. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Autobiography. 7. PHILLIS WHEATLEY. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. 8. ST. JEAN DE CREVECOEUR. Letters from an American Farmer 9.. Sketches of Eighteenth Century-America. 10. THOMAS PAINE. Common Sense, The Crisis, No THOMAS JEFFERSON. Declaration of Independence ; 12.. Notes on the State of Virginia. 13. PHILIP FRENEAU. Poems in EAP. 14. CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN. Wieland. 2

3 15.. Edgar Huntly Arthur Mervin. 17. REBECCA RUSH, Kelroy. 18. WILLIAM HILL BROWN. The Power of Sympathy. 19. HANNAH W. FOSTER. The Coquette. 20. WASHINGTON IRVING. The Sketch Book A History of New York. (1809) 22.. A Tour on the Prairies. ( 1835) 23.. The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) 24.. The Mississippi Bubble 25. JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers The Prairie Homeward Bound Home as Found. 32. SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER. Rural Hours. 33. CATHERINE SEDGWICK. Hope Leslie. 3

4 34. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. Poems in EAP and Lectures on Poetry. 35. CAROLINE KIRKLAND. A New Home, Who ll Follow Western Clearings. 37. ELIZABETH FARNHAM. Life in Prairie Land. (1846). 38. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. Nature. The American Scholar, The Divinity School Address, Man the Reformer, Self Reliance, Circles, The Poet, Experience, Fate. 39. MARGARET FULLER. Summer on the Lakes, Woman in the Nineteenth Century. 40. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. 41. HENRY DAVID THOREAU. Walden Walking, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life without Principle, Ktaadn, A Plea for Captain Brown Autumnal Tints The Maine Woods 44.. Cape Cod 45. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Hymn to the Night, The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, My Lost Youth, Building of the Ship, The Broken Oar, Dante, Keats, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, The Cross of Snow. 46. EDGAR ALLAN POE. Poems in Great Short Works of EAP, ed. G.R. Thompson (Harper). Ligeia, The Fall of the House of Usher, William Wilson, The Man of the Crowd, 47.. The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, The Cask of Amontillado, The Philosophy of Composition. Landscape Sketches. Domaine of Arnheim. 4

5 48. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Roger Malvin s Burial, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Young Goodman Brown, Wakefield, The Minister s Black Veil, The Maypole of Merry-Mount, The Birthmark, Egotism, or the Bosom Serpent, The Celestial Railroad, The Artist of the Beautiful, Rappaccini s Daughter, Ethan Brand The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance. 52. HERMAN MELVILLE. Moby-Dick The Confidence Man Bartleby, The Scrivener Benito Cereno Billy Budd, Sailor. 57. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Uncle Tom s Cabin. 58. HARRIET JACOBS. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. 59. WALT WHITMAN. Preface to Leaves of Grass. (1855), A Backward Glance O er Traveled Roads, Democratic Vistas Selections from Leaves of Grass: Starting from Paumanok, Song of Myself (both 1855 and Deathbed editions), Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, As I Ebb d with the Ocean of Life, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d, Passage to India. From the Deathbed Edition, the complete sections entitled Children of Adam, Calamus, and Drum-Taps. 61. EMILY DICKINSON. Poems in Final Harvest, ed. Thomas H. Johnson. 62. BRET HARTE. The Outcasts of Poker Flat, The Luck of Roaring Camp. 5

6 ABMBROSE BIERCE. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. 63. MARK TWAIN. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 64. HAMLIN GARLAND. Main Travelled Roads A Son of the Middle Border. 66. KATE CHOPIN. The Awakening. 67. STEPHEN CRANE. Maggie. The Open Boat. 68. MARY WILKINS FREEMAN. A New England Nun. 69. SARAH ORNE JEWETT. The Country of the Pointed Firs. 70. FRANK NORRIS. McTeague. 71. ERNEST THOMPSON SETON. Wild Animals I Have Known. 72. JACK LONDON. To Build a Fire ; White Fang (1906). 73. WILLA CATHER. My Antonia O Pioneers. 75. ROBERT FROST. A Boy s Will; North Of Boston; 76.. Mountain Interval; New Hampshire West-Running Brook; A Further Range; A Witness Tree. 78. D.H. LAWRENCE. Studies in Classic American Literature. (1923). 6

7 79. F.O. MATTHIESSEN. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. (1941). 80. LAWRENCE BUELL. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (1973). 81. BABARA PACKER, The Transcendentalists. 82. SACVAN BERCOVITCH. The American Jeremiad. (1978). 83. JANE TOMPKINS. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, (1985). 84. MICHAEL WARNER. The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. (1990). II. Ideas of Nature: 85. RAYMOND WILLIAMS. Ideas of Nature 86. PERRY MILLER. Errand into the Wilderness. (1956). 87. HENRY NASH SMITH. Virgin Land. (1950). 88. LEO MARX. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America 89. JONATHON BATE, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. New York: Routledge, LAWRENCE BUELL. The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture, Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press,

8 91.. Writing for an Endangered World. (2003) Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. (2005). 93. CAROLYN MERCHANT. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. Harper and Row, RODERICK NASH. Wilderness and the American Mind. 3d ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, JEFFREY MEYERS. Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature. (2005). 96. MAX OELSCHLAEGER. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven: Yale University Press, GARY SNYDER. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, DONALD WORSTER. The Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, CLARENCE J. GLACKEN. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkley: Univ. California Press, JEFFREY MYERS. Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature. (2005) CHERYLL GLOTFELTY and HAROLD FROMM, eds., The Ecocriticism Reader. (1996) JOHN SEELYE. Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life and Literature. 8

9 103.. Beautiful Machine: Rivers and the Republican Plan, JOHN MUIR. My First Summer in the Sierras ALDO LEOPOLD. Sand County Almanac (1949) RACHEL CARSON. Silent Spring (1962) EDWARD ABBEY. Desert Solitaire (1968) The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) ANNIE DILLARD. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974) GRETEL EHRLICH. The Solace of Open Spaces. (1986) BILL MIKIBBEN, The End of Nature Hope, Human, Wild. 9

10 III. Land, Property, and Speculation: 113. PHILLIP FISHER, Democratic Social Space: Whitman, Melville, and the Promise of American Transparency, (1988) 114. LISA WEST, I May Be A Stranger to the Grounds of Your Belief: Constructing a Sense of Place in Wieland, 115. CHARLES A. MILLER, Jefferson and Nature: An Interpretation (1988) 116. LINDA KERBER. Federalists in Dissent: Imagery and Ideology in Jeffersonian America. (1970) 117. EDWIN T. MARTIN, "Thomas Jefferson, Scientist. (1952) 118. DREW MCCOY, The Elusive Republic HILDEGAARD BINDER JOHNSON. Order Upon the Land. (1976) ROY PORTER. The Enlightenment RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON, "Origin of the Land Speculator as a Frontier Type," Agricultural. History, 19 (1945), ; 122. PAUL GATES, The Role of the Land Speculator in Western Development LESLIE E. DECKER. The Great Speculation: An Interpretation of Mid- Continent Pioneering 124. HANNAH BOWEN ALLEN. Farmer Houston and the Speculator: A New England Tale (1839) WILLIAM CRONON. Changes in the Land: Indians, colonists, and the Ecology of New England. (1983). 10

11 126.. The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature 127. ALLEN TAYLOR. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (1996) American Colonies: The Settling of North America (The Penguin History of the United States, Volume1) (Hist of the USA). (2002) JOHN C. WEAVER. The Great Land Rush: And the Making of the Modern World, (2003) TED STEINBERG. Down to Earth: Nature s Role in American History. (2002) LOUIS S. WARREN. American Environmental History ANNETTE KOLODNY. The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters. (1975) The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, THOMAS HALLOCK. From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, ) ANDY DOOLEN. Fugitive Empires YI-FU TUAN. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. (2001) Cosmos and Hearth. (1999) 138. JENNIFER J. BAKER. Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America. (2005) 11

12 139. LYNN PARKS. Capitalism in Early American Literature (1996) PETER ANTELYES. Tales of Adventurous Enterprise. (1990). 12