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En side om New England hvor der efterhånden vil blive henvisninger både til klassiske og nyere emner. Grundlaget for siden er en artikel fra Anglo Files #150 af Susanne Kærsgaard og Jonna Fransgård fra Vesthimmerlands Gymnasium.

New England forløb

Classical writers of the 19th century

Ralph Waldo Emerson: uddrag fra Self-Reliance og/eller Nature (1og 2)
Henry David Thoreau: uddrag fra Walden og/eller The Maine Woods (1 og 2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne: ‘Young Goodman Brown’ (7), ‘The Maypole of Merry Mount’(15) eller ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’ (7)
Longfellow: Paul Revere’s Ride (2 og 16)
Temaer og perspektivering: The Wilderness som begreb, det kristne over for det hedenske, individet over for fællesskabet, naturopfattelser: økologer/miljøforkæmpere, hvad sker der med vores samfund og natur? I forbindelse med puritanerne er det naturligvis nærliggende med et historisk perspektiv til den amerikanske revolution og evt. inddragelse af the Noble Savage, Native Americans (evt.filmuddrag: The Last of the Mohicans).

The Puritans. Focus on The Salem Witchcraft Trials

Arthur Miller: The Crucible (1953)
Louise Doughty: ‘The Whore’s Vengeance’ (1990, 13)
Cotton Mather: Pillar of Salt (17) Salem Witchcraft Papers. (masser af links og kilder, se f.eks. 6)
Temaer og perspektivering: oprørere og outsidere, det lille samfund vs. individet, McCarthyisme og 50erne, Sacco og Venzetti (anarkister, se 1), holdning til kvinder, overtro, heksejagt i Europa.

The African-AmericanExperience

Phillis Wheatley (digte, se f.eks. 2)
Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (11).
Harriet Beecher Stowe: uddrag af Uncle Tom’s Cabin (uddrag findes i 1)
W.E.B: Dubois (uddrag af hans selvbiografi, se 2).
The Underground Railroad: evt. fokus på Harriet Tubman (4).
Temaer og perspektivering: slaveri, den amerikanske borgerkrig, Boston i dag, det sociale arbejde i storbyen (se andetsteds i denne udgave af AF), uddannelse, The African American Museum i Boston (12).

New England Novel Writers – classical and modern:

Louisa May Alcott: uddrag fra Little Women(1868) (evt. filmuddrag 1949 og 1994)
Henry James og Edith Wharton. Uddrag fra The Bostonians og eller The House of Mirth (evt. kun filmuddrag, tekstuddrag i 1)
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)
Charlotte Gilman, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ (10)
John Cheever: Reunion (novelle fra 1).
John Irving: Uddrag fra The World According to Garp (1978), The Hotel New Hampshire(1981) eller The Cider House Rules (1985)
Temaer og perspektivering: familiemønstre, overklassens værdinormer, byen vs landet, kvinderoller i 1800tallet, omkring og efter århundredeskiftet og i moderne tid, madness og normalitet, John Irvings forfatterskab.

New England Horror:

Shirley Jackson: ‘The Lottery’ (1948) (findes i flere antologier, også i 1)
Stephen King: ‘The Man in the Black Suit’ (3, smlg med ‘Young Goodman Brown’, andre horrortekster af King: se bl.a. 9)
Brendan du Bois: ‘The Dark Snow’ (1996, smlg med ‘The Lottery’, 1)
Edgar Allan Poe (‘The Black Cat’/ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’, 8 og 9) smlg med Hawthornes ‘The Minister’s Black Veil’(7)
P.H. Lovecraft, ‘The Rats in the Walls’ ( 1923) ( 9)
Henry James: ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (1898) (18)
Temaer og perspektivering: det lille samfund vs. Outsideren, det ubevidste, the unreliable narrator, overtro, forbrydelse og forbrydere.

Litteratur/henvisninger :

1. Writing New England. An Anthology from the Puritans to the Present (ed. Andrew Delblanco), Harvard University Press, 2001.

2. New England. Crucible of the United States (ed. Hanna & Edward Broadbridge), Munksgaard 1998.

3. Stephen King: Everything’s Eventual. 14 Dark Tales. (Pocket Books, N.Y. 2002).

4. Sarah Bradford: Harriet Tubman. The Moses of her People. (Dover African-American Books, 2004)). Link om the Underground Railroad: f.eks. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

5. American Literature. Four Themes (Gyldendal 1966/1997) (Hawthorne)

6. http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

7. The American Tradition in Literature (Bradley, Beatty, Long, Perkins), Grosset & Dunlap (ny udgave?)

8. The Gothic Universe (ed.Marianne Mortensen og Rolf D. Erbst), Gyldendal 2003

9. A Taste of Horror (ed. Nete Schmidt), Systime 1993

10. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Charlotte_Perkins_Gilman/The_Yellow_Wallpaper/The_Yellow_Wallpaper_p1.html

11. Frederick Douglass: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Literature/Douglass/Autobiography/, (også uddrag i 1).

12. http://www.afroammuseum.org/

13. ’The Whore’s Vengeance’: findes i antologien Class Work. The Best of Contemporary Short Fiction (ed. Malcolm Bradbury, London 1991), se også: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/09/07/bowriter07.xml

14. Brendan du Bois’ novelle finder man i: Prime Cuts (ed: Henriette Madsen, Gyldendal 2002).

15. The Maypole of Merry Mount’, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=HawMayp.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=1&division=div1

16. Longfellow, http://www.nationalcenter.org/PaulRevere%27sRide.html

17. Cotton Mather, Pillar of Salt,

18. The Turn of The Screw, http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/turn_screw/

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