Report grades and comments will be e-mailed to you. You can also check your grade on the final exam, your Paper 3 grade, your report grade, and your weblog/paper grade in WebCT (http://webct.wsu.edu). Final exam grades will be posted later today.

The study guide for Exam 2 is available. The exam will be on December 14 from 8:30-10 a.m.; we won't have a take-home exam.

Here is the link to the WPA ex-slave narratives I mentioned in class.

From Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896):


"Oh, now that's where you make your mistake," Sister Soulsby put in placidly. "These people of yours are not a whit worse than other people. They've got their good streaks and their bad streaks, just like the rest of us. Take them by and large, they're quite on a par with other folks the whole country through."

"I don't believe there's another congregation in the Conference where--where this sort of thing would have been needed, or, I might say, tolerated," insisted Theron.

"Perhaps you're right," the other assented; "but that only shows that your people here are different from the others--not that they're worse. . . . But you see what I mean. . . . To them the profession of entire sanctification is truly a genuine thing. Well, don't you see, when people just know that they're saved, it doesn't seem to them to matter so much what they do. They feel that ordinary rules may well be bent and twisted in the interest of people so supernaturally good as they are. That's pure human nature. It's always been like that."

From "Many Who Voted for 'Values' Still Like Their Television Sin" New York Times, 23 November 2004:

The divide between what people accept as proper in public and what they choose to enjoy in their private lives is, unsurprisingly, nothing new in the history of the world or this country.

"When the Pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock left behind writing, it was William Bradford's, and you can clearly see what they believed in and what their values were," said Robert Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University, referring to the colony's first governor. "Then you look at the court records and you see all kinds of fornication, adultery and bestiality."

Herbert J. Gans, professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of "Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste," said, "For some people it's a case of 'I am moral therefore I can watch the most immoral show.' ''

Here is the link to "Desiree's Baby."

Poor little Daisy Miller was, as I understand her, above all things innocent. It was not to make a scandal, or because she took pleasure in a scandal, that she "went on" with Giovanelli. she never took the measure really of the scandal she produced, and had no means of doing so; the was too ignorant, to irreflective, too little versed int he proportions of things...She was a flirt, a perfectly superficial and unmalicious one....I did not mean to suggest that she was playing off Giovanelli against Winterbourne--for she was too innocent for that. H. James, August 1880 letter.

Here are some useful references on Huckleberry Finn and race:



Leonard, James, et al. eds. Satire or Evasion? Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn. Durham: Duke UP, 1992.



Graff, Gerald, and James Phelan. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy. Boston: St. Martin’s, 2003.



Ellison, Ralph. “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke.” Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Ed. Sculley Bradley, et al. 2nd ed. New York: Norton, 1977. 421-22.



Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn. The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn . Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.



Especially for future teachers:



Essay by Twain scholar Shelly Fisher Fishkin, author of Was Huck Black:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/teachers/huck/essay.html

If you're interested in seeing some of Isaac Watts's hymns, which were discussed briefly the other day when we talked about Emily Dickinson, here is a link to some:
http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/3/4/3/13439/13439.txt.
Here's a sample:
Song 17.
_Love between Brothers and Sisters_.

1 What ever brawls are in the street
There should be peace at home;
Where sisters dwell and brothers meet
Quarrels shou'd never come.

2 Birds in their little nests agree;
And `tis a shameful sight,
When children of one family
Fall out, and chide, and fight.

3 Hard names at first, and threatening words,
That are but noisy breath,
May grow to clubs and naked swords,
To murder and to death. . . .
Here's a link to information on Emily Dickinson.

I've added comments to your blogs by now, if the comment feature was available. If you don't find them, please let me know. (The Motime.com ones did not seem to be showing up, although that may just take a while.)

The report topics page is ready. This will be brought to class tomorrow so that you can sign up then if you wish. You can look at it ahead of time and think about topics you'd like to choose.