21L.006 | Spring 2013 | Undergraduate

American Literature

Readings

Baym, Nina, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 7th ed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393930573.

[Morrison] = Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Plume, 1993. ISBN: 9780452269651.

All page numbers are in the Norton Anthology, unless otherwise noted. Students are expected to read historical and biographical head-notes for readings in the Norton Anthology.

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Origins
2

William Bradford pp. 57-75.

Mary Rowlandson pp. 117-34. (read text at Annotation Studio)

3

Benjamin Franklin pp. 230-46, 276-92.

Washington Irving pp. 453-66.

Declarations of Independence
6

Ralph Waldo Emerson pp. 488-519.

Henry David Thoreau pp. 844-86.

7 Henry David Thoreau pp. 886-920.
9 Nathaniel Hawthorne pp. 589-643.
10 Frederick Douglass pp. 920-88.
11

Harriet Beecher Stowe pp. 764-99.

Harriet Jacobs pp. 804-25.

12 Herman Melville pp. 1118-74.
14 Walt Whitman pp. 991-1088, selections.
15 Emily Dickinson pp. 1197-1225, selections.
Realism and Satire
16 Samuel Clemens pp. 1270-1343.
17 Samuel Clemens pp. 1343-1410.
18 Samuel Clemens pp. 1410-63.
19

Sarah Orne Jewett pp. 1590-98.

Kate Chopin pp. 1602-19.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman pp. 1695-1719.

20

Henry James pp. 1532-79.

Edith Wharton pp. 1695-1719.

Vision and Revision
22

Claude McKay pp. 2044-47.

Zora Neale Hurston pp. 2057-69.

Langston Hughes pp. 2263-71.

Countee Cullen pp. 2283-87.

Richard Wright pp. 2287-97.

23 [Morrison] pp. 4–87.
24 [Morrison] pp. 89–162.
25 [Morrison] pp. 165–229.

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