READING SCHEDULE: LITERATURE & LAW

FALL 2018

Aug. 27 Introduction
Aug. 29 John Locke, Selections from Second Treatise of Government (1690)

Sept. 3 Labor Day (no class).

Sept. 5 Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)

Sept. 10 No classes scheduled.

Sept. 12 Edwards, Religious Affections (1746), Phillis Wheatley, “To the Right Honorable William, Earl of
Dartmouth,” Walt Whitman, “America”

Sept. 17 Declaration of Independence (and drafts) (1776)

Sept. 19 No classes scheduled.

Sept. 24 U.S. Constitution (1789)

Sept. 26 James Madison, “Federalist Paper No. 10” (1788)

Oct. 1 James Madison, “Federalist Paper No. 51” (1788)

Oct. 3 James A. Morone, The Resistible Rise of the Common Man: Jacksonian Democracy

Oct. 8 College Closed

Oct. 10 Davy Crockett, Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee (excerpts
to be assigned)

Oct. 15 Henry David Thoreau, “Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)” (1849)
Oct. 17 Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address (1861), Second Inaugural Address (1865)

Oct. 22 Fredrick Douglas, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas (1845)

Oct. 24 Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Oct. 29 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1932); Second Inaugural Address
(1936)
Oct. 31 John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Nov. 5 The Grapes of Wrath, continued

Nov. 7 The Grapes of Wrath, continued

Nov. 12 The Grapes of Wrath, continued

Nov. 14 Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)

Nov. 19 Native Son, continued

Nov. 21 Native Son, continued

Nov. 26 Martin Luther King, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)

Nov. 28 James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963).”

Dec. 3 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)

Dec. 5 Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart (1985)

Dec. 10 The Normal Heart/ The Destiny of Me

Dec. 12 The Destiny of Me