2011_fall_101_calendar

Richard Wright	Gertrude Stein	English 101: Americans in Paris: The Quest for The Good Life Centenary College of Louisiana Fall 2011 Jefferson Hendricks	Benjamin Franklin	Anita Loos
Americans in Paris: Bibliography	Americans in Paris: Filmography	Americans in Paris: Webliography	Course Policies and Information	Course Texts and Calendar

Course Texts

Gopnick, Adam. Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition.
Lunsford, Andrea, ed. The St. Martin's Handbook.

Course Calendar

Wk 1: Paris as Myth and Reality

Tue Aug 23:

Introduction to Course

Thu Aug 25:

writer's quotes about Paris (handout)
overview of myths and realities about Paris

Wk 2: Americans in Paris in the 18th Century

*** Mon Aug 29: Turn in essay #1 to my mailbox in Jackson Hall 307 by 2:00 pm

Tue Aug 30:

Readings:

Print:

Gopnik, Americans in Paris

Benjamin Franklin, "Letter to Mary Stevenson"
Abigail Adams, "Letters from Auteuil"
Thomas Jefferson, "Two Letters"

Online:

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin -- Wikipedia
Benjamin Franklin: World of Influence - France -- PBS

"Our Man in Paris: How Benjamin Franklin Wooed the French to Win Our War" -- Lisa Rogers, Humanities
"Franklin in Paris" -- Stacy Schiff, The American Scholar
Benjamin Franklin in Paris -- ParAmericana
excerpt from documentary on Franklin as a diplomat in France -- You Tube

Abigail Adams

Abigail Adams -- Wikipedia
Abigail Adams -- Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
John Adams in Paris -- ParAmericana

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson -- Wikipedia
[Thomas Jefferson in] Paris -- The Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia
Jefferson in Paris, 1784-1789 -- Harlan Lewin
Jefferson in France, 1784-1789 -- SparkNotes
Thomas Jefferson in Paris -- ParAmericana
video excerpt: Jefferson in Paris -- History Channel

Thu Sep 1

Readings:

Print:

Gopnik, Americans in Paris

Gouverneur Morris, "from A Diary of the French Revolution"
Thomas Paine, "Shall Louis XVI Have Respite?"

Online:

Gouverneur Morris -- Wikipedia
"The Fun-Loving Founding Father: Gouverneur Morris, the First Modern American" -- Will Wikinson, Reason.com
review of Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution by Melanie Randolph Miller -- Peter S. Onuf, Dipolmatic History
Thomas Paine in Paris -- ParAmericana
Thomas Paine -- Steven Kreis, The History Guide
Thomas Paine: The Radical Founding Father -- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Thomas Paine -- Wikipedia

Wk 3:

Mon Sep 5: No Classes -- LABOR DAY HOLIDAY

Tue Sep 6:

Readings:

Print:

James Gallatin, from The Diary of James Gallatin
George Ticknor, from Life, Letters, and Journals
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Letter to Stephen Longfellow, Jr.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Journal, 1833

Online:

James Gallatin -- Wikipedia

Americans in Paris: James Gallatin -- Just Another American in Paris (blog)

George Ticknor -- Wikipedia

George Ticknor -- Warner Berthoff, Harvard Magazine

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Wikipedia
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Wikipedia

Americans in Paris: Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Just Another American in Paris (blog)

Thu Sep 8:

Readings:

Print:

Nathaniel Parker Willis, from Pencillings By the Way
James Fenimore Cooper, from Gleanings in Europe
P. T. Barnum, from Struggles and Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections
George Catlin, from Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe

Online:

Nathaniel Parker Willis -- Wikipedia
James Fenimore Cooper -- Wikipedia

James Fenimore Cooper -- ParAmericana

P. T. Barnum -- Wikipedia
George Catlin -- Wikipedia

Wk 4:

Tue Sep 13:

Readings:

Print:

Margaret Fuller, from Things and Thoughts in Europe
Harriet Beecher Stowe, from Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
Nathaniel Hawthorne, from The French Notebooks
Mark Twain, from The Innocents Abroad

Online:

Margaret Fuller -- Wikipedia
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Wikipedia
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Wikipedia

[Hawthorne in Paris] -- Jim McAllister, The Salem News

Mark Twain Quotes on France and the French -- TwainQuotes.com

Mark Twain -- Wikipedia

Thu Sep 15:

Readings:

Print:

Elihu Washburne, The Proclamation of the Republic
Frederick Douglass, Letter from Paris
Henry Adams, Letter to John Hay
Richard Harding Davis, from The Show-Places of Paris

Online:

Wk 5: David Amram visit to Centenary College and Shreveport

Tue Sep 20:

Readings:

Print:

Cole Porter, "You Don't Know Paree"
Virgil Thomson — 17 quai Voltaire
Oscar Hammerstein II, The Last Time I Saw Paris
Sidney Bechet, Trouble in Paris
Jack Kerouac, from Satori in Paris
Allen Ginsberg, "Message from Paris, 1958"

Online:

Thu Sep 22:

Readings:

Print:
Online:

Sun Sept 25 @ 3:00 pm: (at The Robinson Film Center, 617 Texas Street in downtown Shreveport) -- documentary film "David Amram: The First 80 Years" -- David Amram and filmmaker Lawrence Kraman will be in attendance to introduce the film and answer questions

Wk 6:

Tue Sep 27:

Readings:

Print:

Henry James, "Occasional Paris"

Online:

Thu Sep 29:

Readings:

Print:

Henry James, "The Velvet Glove"

Online:

Wk 7:

Tue Oct 4:

Readings:

Print:

Isadora Duncan, from My Life
Edward Steichen, from A Life in Photography
James Weldon Johnson, from Along This Way
Theodore Dreiser, A Traveler at Forty
Edith Wharton, The Look of Paris, from A Backward Glance

Online:

Thu Oct 6:

Readings:

Print:

Randolph Bourne, Mon Amie
Sherwood Anderson, Paris Notebook, 1921
Carl Van Vechten, from Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works
Malcolm Cowley, Significant Gesture
Matthew Josephson, from Life Among the Surrealists

Online:

Wk 8:

Tue Oct 11: Mid-term Exam

Wed Oct 12: Mid-term Grades Due - Noon
Fall Break Begins 8:00 pm

Th Oct 13: No Classes - FALL BREAK

Wk 9:

Tue Oct 18:

Readings:

Print:

Langston Hughes, from The Big Sea
Anita Loos, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
William Faulkner, Four Letters from Paris, 1925
e. e. cummings, from Post Impressions; Vive la Folie!
Charles Lindbergh, from The Spirit of St. Louis
Waverly Root, "The Flying Fool"

Online:

Thu Oct 20:

Readings:

Print:

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Online:

Wk 10:

Tue Oct 25:

Readings:

Print:

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Online:

Thu Oct 27:

Readings:

Print:

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Online:

Wk 11:

Tue Nov 1:

Readings:

Print:

Hart Crane, "Postcard to Samuel Levenson"
Harry Crosby, "Paris Diaries" from
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited”
Lincoln Kirstein, "From An Early Diary"

Online:

Thu Nov 3:

Readings:

Print:

Gertrude Stein, from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; from Paris France
Henry Miller, "Walking Up and Down in China"
John Dos Passos, "A Spring Month in Paris"
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, from The Flower and the Nettle

Online:

Wk 12:

Tue Nov 8:

Readings:

Print:

Sylvia Beach, from Shakespeare and Company
Janet Flanner, Letter from Paris
Elizabeth Bishop, "Paris, 7 A.M."
Ludwig Bemelmans, "No. 13, Rue St. Augustin"
Richard Wilbur — "Place Pigalle"

Online:

Thu Nov 10:

Readings:

Print:

Dawn Powell — Three Letters
Art Buchwald — from First Days in Paris
James Baldwin — Equal in Paris
Irwin Shaw — from Remembrance of Things Past
S. J. Perelman — The Saucier's Apprentice

Online:

Readings:

Print:
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Wk 13:

Tue Nov 15:

Readings:

Print:

May Sarton — Good-by to a World
Paul Zweig — from Departures
James Thurber — The First Time I Saw Paris
A. J. Liebling — from Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris

Online:

Thu Nov 17:

Required Readings:

Print:

M.F.K. Fisher — Gare de Lyon
Diana Vreeland — from D.V.
Dorothea Tanning — from Birthday

Online:

Fri Nov 18: 5:00 pm -- THANKSGIVING BREAK BEGINS

Nov 21 - 27: THANKSGIVING BREAK

Wk 14: TBA -- Oral Reports of Final Project

Tue Nov 29:

Readings:

Print:
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Thu Dec 1:

Readings:

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Wk 15: PREP WEEK -- Review for Final Exam

Tue Dec 6:

Readings:

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Thu Dec 8:

Readings:

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Online:

Wk 16: FINAL EXAM WEEK