In the first weeks of the summer MAP, the students read together texts including the following:

• Selections of American documents from the early Republic
• William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy
• Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple
• Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
• Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France
• Thomas Paine, from The Rights of Man
• William Godwin, Caleb Williams and from Political Justice
• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men and from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Visions of the Daughters of Albion
• Matthew Lewis, The Monk
• Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
• Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly

During and after that time, each student also read a good deal of additional material, including other primary sources and many secondary texts, including those they annotated for this site's bibliography.

When we met as a seminar early in the summer, each student kept a reading journal on a site that served as the technological proving ground for the rest of the project. You can see the results of that earlier, rougher project here. As you will see, the journals apparatus has not been integrated fully into the rest of the site; the link here is meant only for illustrative purposes.

The required core readings for the MAP emphasized certain elements of the literature of the transatlantic 1790s and not others, of course. The fall seminar will examine different texts, including obvious omissions from the MAP such as Lyrical Ballads, to different ends.