Required Texts
Hawthorn, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter [1850]. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780142437261. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin [1852]. New York, NY: Wordsworth Editions, Ltd., 1999. ISBN: 9781840224023. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw [1898]. Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, Inc., 2006. ISBN: 9781580491617. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! [1936]. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732181.
Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior [1976]. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780072435191.
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian [1985]. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780679721888.
Morrison, Toni. Beloved [1987]. New York, NY: Plume, 1998. ISBN: 9780452280625.
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks [1988]. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2004. ISBN: 9780060972455.
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral [1997]. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2004. ISBN: 9780099771814.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World [2003]. New York, NY: Amistad, 2006. ISBN: 9780061159176.
Readings by Session
Course readings.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
READINGS |
| 1 |
Introduction |
(no readings) |
| 2 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Scarlet Letter, chapters 1-20. |
| 3 |
Scarlet Letter, chapter 21-end. |
| 4 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapters 1-28. |
| 5 |
Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 29-end. |
| 6 |
William Faulkner |
Absalom, Absalom!, chapters 1-3. |
| 7 |
Absalom, Absalom!, chapters 4-6. |
| 8 |
Absalom, Absalom!, chapters 7-9. |
| 9 |
Henry James |
Turn of the Screw (read all). |
| 10 |
Maxine Hong Kingston |
Woman Warrior. Read "No Name Woman." |
| 11 |
Woman Warrior. Read "White Tigers"; "Shaman"; "At the Western Place." |
| 12 |
Woman Warrior. Read "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe." |
| 13 |
Cormac McCarthy |
Blood Meridian, chapters 1-4. |
| 14 |
Blood Meridian, chapters 5-13. |
| 15 |
Blood Meridian, chapter 14-end. |
| 16 |
Toni Morrison |
Beloved, pp. 1-117. |
| 17 |
Beloved, pp. 118-165. |
| 18 |
Beloved, pp. 170-end. |
| 19 |
Louise Erdrich |
Tracks, chapters 1-4. |
| 20 |
Tracks, chapters 5-7. |
| 21 |
Tracks, chapter 8-end. |
| 22 |
Philip Roth |
American Pastoral, chapters 1-3. |
| 23 |
American Pastoral, chapters 4-5. |
| 24 |
Edward P. Jones |
The Known World, pp. 1-177 (chapters 1-5). |
| 25 |
The Known World, pp. 179-end (chapters 6-12). |
| 26 |
The Known World (final discussion). |
