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課程名稱

十九世紀美國文學
Nineteenth-century American Literature

開課學期

101-2

授課對象

外國語文學系

授課教師

奚永慧

課號

FL4004

課程識別碼

102 43040

班次

學分

全/半年

半年

必/選修

必修

上課時間

星期二6,7,8(13:20~16:20)

上課地點

新401

備註

英國文學與美國文學九科擇五必修。以中英雙語授課。
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限：50人

Ceiba 課程網頁

http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/101219thAmericanLit

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課程概述

課程概述 Course Description
本課程以閱讀文本及課堂演講討論為主，介紹十九世紀美國文學之傳承、重要作家作品以及文學理念。所涵蓋之作家及文本詳見課程進度。

評量方式 Grading
1. 至少十四篇閱讀心得 70 %
2. 期末考或小考 20 %
3. 課堂討論表現 10 %

進度 Syllabus

第1週 Nathaniel Hawthorne (Young Goodman Brown; The Minister’s Black Veil; The Scarlet
Letter: The Custom House, Chapter 1)

第2週 Edgar Allen Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart; The Philosophy of Composition; The Black Cat)

第3週 Margaret Fuller (The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women: [Four Kinds
of Equality]); Thomas Jefferson (from Notes on the States of Virginia)

第4週 Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life among the Lowly: Chapter VII, Chapter XII); Harriet Jacob (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: VII. The Lover, X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life)

第5週 Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave)

第6週 Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener; Benito Cereno)

第7週 Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter XV, Chapter XIX)

第8週 Henry James (Daisy Miller: A Study; The Real Thing)

第9週 Sarah Orne Jewett (A White Heron); Kate Chopin (At the Cadian Ball; The Storm)

第10週 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wall-paper)

第11週 Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, Chapter XVIII)

第12週 William Dean Howells (Novel Writing and Novel Reading); Henry James (The Art of
Fiction)

第13週 Frank Norris (A Plea for Romantic Fiction); Jack (What Life Means to Me)

第14週 Theodore Dreiser ( True Art Speaks Plainly; Sister Carrie, Chapter 1, 3)

第15週 Stephen Crane (The Open Boat; The Blue Hotel; Red Badge of Courage: Chapter XXIV)

第16週 Jack London (To Build a Fire); Frederick Jackson Turner ( from The Significance of the

課程目標

課程目標 Course Objectives
讓學生透過文本閱讀及討論，掌握十九世紀美國文學之脈動及重要議題。

課程要求

Course Requirements:

Students must endeavor to read the assigned reading selections in advance and come to class with questions and/or thoughts.

預期每週課後學習時數

Office Hours

指定閱讀

1. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 7th edition.
2. Assigned texts.

參考書目

參考書目（教科書）Textbook and References
The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 7th edition.

評量方式
(僅供參考)

No.	項目	百分比	說明
1.	Midterm exam	40%
2.	Final exam	40%
3.	Class participation and continuous assessments	20%	1. Active participation in class discussion is strongly encouraged. 2. Missing too many classes will have a negative impact on your grade.

課程進度

週次	日期	單元主題
第1週	2/19	Introduction
第2週	2/26	Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
第3週	3/05	Hawthorne, "The Minister's Black Veil"
第4週	3/12	Edgar Allen Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart; The Philosophy of Composition)
第5週	3/19	Harriet Jacob (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: VII. The Lover, X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life); Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave)
第6週	3/26	1. Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life among the Lowly: Chapter VII, Chapter XII) 2. American Realism
第7週	4/02	Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter XV, Chapter XIX)
第8週	4/09	Henry James (Daisy Miller: A Study; The Real Thing)
第9週	4/16	Midterm exam
第10週	4/23	Sarah Orne Jewett (A White Heron); Kate Chopin (The Storm)
第11週	4/30	Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wall-paper)
第12週	5/07	Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, Chapter XVIII)
第13週	5/14	1. American Naturalism 2. Theodore Dreiser ( True Art Speaks Plainly; Sister Carrie, Chapter 1, 3)
第14週	5/21	Stephen Crane (The Open Boat; Red Badge of Courage: Chapter XXIV)
第15週	5/28	Frank Norris (A Plea for Romantic Fiction); Jack London (What Life Means to Me)
第16週	6/04	Jack London (To Build a Fire); Frederick Jackson Turner ( from The Significance of the Frontier....)
第17週	6/11	Final exam