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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780205514083.

Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings. New York, NY: Norton Critical Edition, 2008.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9780451531445.

Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192835796.

Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780307276766.

Course readings.
LEC #	READINGS
2	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapter 32. ISBN: 9780205514083. Wilson, Eric. "Melville, Darwin, and the Great Chain of Being"
3	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 1-9. ISBN: 9780205514083.
4	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 10-24. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Exploration (James Cook, Wilkes Exploring Expedition, Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle)
5	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 25-40. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topics: Taxonomy and Comparative Anatomy (Cuvier, Owen, Linnaeus), Natural History of the Whale (Beale)
6	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 41-53. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Racial Science (Josiah Nott, Samuel Morton, Richard Knox), Optics (Goethe), Cartography (Maury)
7	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 54-66. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Illustration and Image (Goldsmith, Scoresby, Garneray, J. Ross Browne)
8	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 67-82. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Dissection and the Brain (Phrenology, Gall and Spurzheim)
9	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 83-98. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Sex and Social Behavior (Scoresby and Beale, Chambers, Darwin)
10	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 99 – 117. ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: Geology and the Fossil Record (Lyell, Chambers, Cuvier)
11	Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick: A Longman Critical Edition. New York, NY: Longman Press, 2009, chapters 118 - "Epilogue". ISBN: 9780205514083. Report Topic: New Technology in the Nineteenth-Century (Machinery, The Railroad)
12	Melville, Herman, "The Encantadas" Report Topic: Darwin and the Evolution of Evolution
13	"The Encantadas" (cont.)
14	Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 9780679783343. "Economy"
15	Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 9780679783343. (cont.) "Where I Lived and What I Lived For," "Reading," "Sounds," "Visitors," "The Bean Field"
16	Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 9780679783343. (cont.) "The Village," "The Ponds," "Baker Farm," "Higher Laws," "Brute Neighbors," "Housewarming"
17	Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. New York, NY: Modern Library, 2000. ISBN: 9780679783343. (cont.) "Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors," "Winter Animals," "The Pond in Winter," "Spring," "Conclusion"
18	Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9780451531445.
19	Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 2009. ISBN: 9780451531445. (cont.)
20	Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, Book I, chapters 1-9. ISBN: 9780192835796.
21	Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, Book I, chapters 10-15, Book II, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780192835796.
22	Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, to conclusion. ISBN: 9780192835796.
23	Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780307276766.
24	Morrison, Toni. A Mercy. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2009. ISBN: 9780307276766. (cont.)