Readings

Note: All downloadable texts linked here are not the versions used in the course. Be aware that they may contain errors.

Required Texts

Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997. ISBN: 9780312111519.

Child, Lydia Maria. Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1986. ISBN: 9780813511641. (Download a version of this work from the University of Virginia.)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Edited by S. S. Williams. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN: 9780312446499. (Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg.)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Edited by S. Railton. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN: 9780312446512. (Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg.)

Brown, William Wells. Clotel, or The President's Daughter. Edited by R. Levine. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. ISBN: 9780312152659. (Download several versions of this work from Project Gutenberg.)

Melville, Herman. Benito Cereno. Edited by Wyn Kelley. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. ISBN: 9780312452421.

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. With introduction and notes by N. I. Painter. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780140437959. (Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg.)

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills. Edited by C. Tichi. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997. ISBN: 9780312133603. (Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg.)

Whitman, Walt. Complete Poems. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1977. ISBN: 9780140422221.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 2nd ed. Edited by G. Graff and J. Phelan. New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. ISBN: 9780312400293. (Download a version of this work from Project Gutenberg.)