ERES: 4211mn

Unit I—Middle-Class Emergence and the Antebellum City

Week 1—
T 2/12 Intro

Th 2/14 Home, Work, and Marriage
• Nancy Cott, “Domesticity” (eres)
• T.S. Arthur, “Sweethearts and Wives” (eres)
• Mrs. Joseph C. Neal, “Ideal Husbands: or, School-Girl Fancies” (eres)

Week 2
T 2/19 Urban Dangers
• Karen Haltunnen, from Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (eres)
• T. S. Arthur, ”In the Way of Temptation,” 1841 (eres)
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” 1842 (eres)

UNIT II—Modern Consumerism and the Emergence of Mass Culture, 1870-1910
Th 2/21 Coney Island: Amusement Parks and Cultural Change
• John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, 1978 (bookstore)
• O. Henry, “Brickdust Row” (eres)

Week 3
T 2/26 Conspicuous Consumption and John Singer Sargent
• Thorstein Veblen, “The Economic Theory of Women’s Dress,” 1894 (eres)
• John Singer Sargent, Selected Portraits
• Todd Gitlin, “Beneath the Surface: John Singer Sargent and the Gilded Age” Dissent (2000): 97-100 (eres)

Th 2/28 Land of Desire: Popularizing Luxury in Department Stores and Hotels
• Willa Cather, “Paul’s Case,” 1906 (eres)
• Visualizing Shopping: Photos, Paintings, and postcards of Shoppers and Department Store at the turn of the 20th Century
• From William Leach, Land of Desire (eres)

Week 4
T 3/5 Highbrow/Lowbrow/Middlebrow: Amusement and Cultural Hierarchy
• Robert Snyder, “Respectable Thrills,” 1989 (eres)
• Lawrence Levine, “William Shakespeare and the American People” (eres)
• Sheet Music Covers, 1880-1910
• Recordings of Vaudeville Songs and routines, 1910-1920 (Windows Media Player or Itunes should be compatible)
“The Bird on Nellie’s Hat”
”On the Trail of the Lonesom Pine”
”I Want to go Back to Michigan”

Th 3/7 The Dawn of Cinema
• Steven J. Ross, “Going to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century,” Working-Class Hollywood (1999), 11-33. (eres)
• Early films from the Edison Archive in a folder in “Handouts” on Middfiles. Watch the very short movies listed below. All of them were made by Thomas Edison’s studio between 1890-1910.

Sneeze, 1893
Athlete With Wand, 1894
New York City Dumping Wharf, 1903
Searching Ruins in Galveston for Bodies after Hurricane, 1900
Turkish Dance, Ella Lola, 1898
Trapeze Disrobing Act, 1901
From Showgirl to Burlesque Queen, 1903
Kiss Me, 1904
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show, 1902
Boxing Cats
A Morning Bath

UNIT III Imperialism, Immigration, and American Culture in a Globalizing World, 1870-1910

Week 5
T 3/12 Orientalism
• Edward Said, Orientalism (eres)
• Orientalist Painters from Europe and the United States

Th 3/14 Looking at Chinatown—The Photograph and the Imperialist Gaze
• Arnold Genthe, Pictures of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown (bookstore)

Week 6
T 3/19 The Philippine War, Manhood, and “The Strenuous Life”
• Theodore Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life,” 1899 (eres)
• Mark Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness,” 1901 (eres)
• William James, “The Moral Equivalent of War,” 1910 (eres)

Th 3/21 The Mythology of Madame Butterfly and Consumer Orientalism
• David Belasco, Madame Butterfly , 1900 (eres)

SPRING BREAK

Unit IV The Color Line

Week 7
T 4/2 The “Color Line,” Autobiography, and Racial History
• Booker T. Washington, “A Slave among Slaves” and “The Atlanta Exposition Address” in Up From Slavery, 1900 (eres)
• W.E.B. DuBois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” in The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 (eres)

Th 4/4 Fictions of Blackness: The Plantation Tale
• Charles Chesnutt, “The Goopher’d Grapevine” 1899 and “Po’ Sandy,” 1888 (eres)
• Joel Chandler Harris, Legends from the Old Plantation (eres)

UNIT V The “Wild” West

Week 8
T 4/9 “Buffalo” Bill Cody, Frederic Remington, and the Conquest of the Wild West
• “Buffalo” Bill Cody, “Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood,” 1881 (eres)
• Frederic Remington, paintings and sculpture, 1890-1910
• Jane Tompkins “At the Buffalo Bill Museum,” 1988 (eres)

Th 4/11
• Zitkala Sa, “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900 (eres)
• Edward Curtis Photographs, 1890-1910
Unit VI—“Captains of Industry” and the Working Class: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and Frederick Winslow Taylor

Week 9
T 4/16 Carnegie, Homestead, and the Self-Made Man

• Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889; “The Road to Business Success,” 1885 (eres)

Th 4/18 Gazing at Immigrants in the Modern City
• Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (bookstore)
• Slides from Ashcan Painters
• Brief Intoduction to the Ashcan Painters

Week 10

T 4/23 The Science and Management of Mass Production

• Frederick Winslow Taylor, from Principles of Scientific Management (eres)

Th 4/25 Henry Ford and the Modern Assembly Line
• Henry Ford, “Ford Recalls His Accomplishments,” 1922 (eres) (Alfred D. Chandler, Giant Enterprise” (eres)
• John R. Lee, “Ford’s First Personnel Manager Describes the Five-Dollar Day and Other Labor Programs,” 1916 (eres)

Unit V–Modern Homes, Families, and Sexuality

Week 11
T 4/30 The Modern Home
• “Modern Homes and Building Plans” from the Sears Catalogue, 1908-1915; pre-cut homes from the Alladin Co., 1908-1915
• Sinclair Lewis, Chapter I of Babbitt, 1922 (eres)
• From Louis Mumford, Sticks and Stones, 1924 (eres)
• Buster Keaton, One Week (in class)

Unit IV–Sexuality and Self-Presentation in the Modern Era

Th 5/2 Social Life, Courtship, and Sexuality
• Willa Cather, “Coming, Aphrodite!” (eres)
• Beth Bailey, “Calling Cards and Money,” in From Front Porch to Back Seat (eres)
• Jeffrey Weeks, “Movements of Affirmation: Social Meanings and Homosexual Identiess” Radical History Review (1979): 164-179 (eres)

Week 12
T 5/7 Movie Stars, Cameras, and Fables of Abundance
• Watch: Clarence Badger, It, 1927 (in “handouts” folder)

Th 5/9 Advertising and “The Great Parables”
• Roland Marchand, “The Great Parables” from Advertising the American Dream (eres)