American Literature
REQUIRED READINGS
Final Section of Winthrop's
A Model of Christian Charity
(City on a Hill)
Crevecouer's
What is an American?
Franklin's
Autobiography
(only Parts 1 and 2 for class)
Irving's
Sleepy Hollow
and
Rip Van Winkle
Emerson's
Self Reliance
(full text)
(shortened version)
Emerson's
Nature, Chapter 1
Emerson's
"The Transcendentalist"
Thoreau's
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
(full text)
(shortened version)
Thoreau's
Walden
--
The Walden Express
is enormously helpful.
Most instructors will have students read selections from the following options: chapter
1a
,
1b
,
1c
,
1d
and
2
Find out from your instructor what your specific reading assignment is.
Poe's
The Short Story
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold Bug
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Raven
Annabel Lee
Hawthorne's
Young Goodman Brown
The Birthmark
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Fanny Fern's novel
Ruth Hall
A selection of
Dickinson
's poems
A selection of
Whitman
's poetry
Whitman's essay "
Democratic Vistas
," or at least a condensed version of it. For the full-length version,
go here
.
A selection of speeches from
Native American Leaders
Readings from
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-sa)
Mark Twain's
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Readings from
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Dorothy Canfield's story "
The Bedquilt
"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
PDF version
Chopin's
"The Story of an Hour"
Readings from Upton Sinclair's
The Jungle
Cather's
O! Pioneers
Poetry of
Frost
Poetry of
Sandburg
Norris'
A Deal in Wheat
Jewett's
A White Heron
Hughes'
readings (poetry, essay, novel excerpt)
Contemporary Hispanic writers