View source for 2010 AM Fictions of a Puritan Past: Hogg’s Justified Sinner and Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter, Tues 10-12

* '''Time:''' Tuesday 10-12


==Course Description==

The focus of this course is on two narratives from the first half of the nineteenth century, which
reflect the burning issues of their own time by telling stories from a past which, one may fear, is
not quite completely over. The stories are set in Scotland and New England respectively, and
they ostensibly represent the social oppressiveness, the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of the
Puritans of former times. At the same time, they appear to address dangers arising from a
religious fanaticism that continue to threaten the modern self-conception at the time of their
publication. Along with the close reading of the two narratives, the course will thus engage in a
discussion of the issues of national identities, of tradition vs. modernity, religion vs. secularity,
individual vs. society.
Students should purchase and read in advance:

James Hogg, <i>Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner</i>

Nathaniel Hawthorne, <i>The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings</i>, 4th Leland S. Person, (Norton
Critical Editions).[Both texts may be had at a very competitive price at the CvO Bookshop]

Additional materials for preparation will be made available on the course’s interactive wikiwebsite.

Requirements: for 3 KP: regular attendance, an oral contribution in the form of a presentation
and participation in an ‘expert group’ that will prepare a certain aspect of the seminar’s topic for
the final discussion.
Requirements for 6 KP: as above, with a term paper of ca. 10 pp. based on the topic of the
presentation (deadline Aug 15, 2010).

==Bibliography==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_van_leer_hester's_labyrinth.pdf Van Leer, David. "Hester's Labyrinth: Transcendental Rhetoric in Puritan Boston." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1996_royer_puritan_constructs_hawthorne.pdf Royer, Diana. "Puritan Constructs and Nineteenth -Century Politics: Allegory, Rhetoric, and Law in Three Hawthorne Tales."]

==06.04.10==
Introduction. Technicalities. Past vs. Present Perspectives: Reading 19th-century stories about the 17th century in the 21st century.

==13.04.10==

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==4.05.10==

==11.05.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2002_durston_puritan_ethos.pdf Durston, Christopher and Jacqueline Eales. "Introduction: The Puritan Ethos, 1560-1700." The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560-1700. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002]

==18.05.10==

*Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997. 

==25.05.10==

[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2009_duncan_fanaticism_justified_sinner.pdf Duncan, Ian. "Fanaticism and Enlightenment in Confessions of a Justified Sinner." ]
(Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary] )

==01.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1985_colacurcio_sex_metaphor_scarlet_letter.pdf Colacurcio, Michael. "'The Woman's Own Choice': Sex, Metaphor, and the Puritan 'Sources' of the Scarlet Letter" ]


==08.06.10==

*Sacvan Bercovitch, "A-Politics" (Norton Critical Ed., 576-597)

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1986_arac_politcs_scarlet_letter.pdf Arac, Jonathan. "The Politics of the Scarlet Letter." ]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1998_johnson_meaning_of_scarlet_A.pdf Johnson, Claudia Durst. "The Meaning of the Scarlet A."]

==15.06.10==

*Anderson, "Jefferson, Hawthorne and 'The Custom House'", (Norton Critical Ed., 404-417)

*(also check: Franzosa, "Separation from Salem", (Norton Critical Ed., 387-404))


==22.06.10==

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1990_manning_transatlantic_hogg.pdf Manning, Susan. "That Exhumation Scene Again: Transatlantic Hogg."]

*[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2007_sage_author_editor_text.pdf Sage, Victor. "The Author, the Editor, and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg."]


==29.06.10==

==06.07.10==

==Further Reading==

*General information on American Puritanism:

Vaughan, Alden T. ''The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620-1730''. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997. 

Available on campus only via [http://www.netlibrary.com NetLibrary]

*On Hogg's ''Justified Sinner''

[http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/2003_evans_hogg's_sinner.pdf Evans, Meredith. "Persons Fall Apart: Jame Hogg's Transcendent Sinner." ]