Required Texts
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. ISBN: 9780141439471. The e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg.
Hawthorn, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850). New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2002. ISBN: 9780142437261. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
Forster, E. M. Howard’s End (1910). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2000. ISBN: 9780141183350. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg.
Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse (1927). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1989. ISBN: 9780156907392. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg of Australia.
Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying (1930). New York, NY: Vintage, 1991. ISBN: 9780679732259.
Baldwin, James. Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953). New York, NY: Penguin Modern Classics, 2001. ISBN: 9780141185910.
O’Connor, Flannery. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780156364652.
Garcia, Cristina. Dreaming in Cuban (1992). New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780345381439.
Morrison, Toni. Jazz (1992). New York, NY: Vintage, 2004. ISBN: 9781400076215.
Roy, Arundhati. God of Small Things (1997). New York, NY: Harvest Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780060977498.
Readings by Session
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | (no readings) |
| 2 | Leo Tolstoy | Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina (1877). Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2003, chapter 1. ISBN: 9780140449174. The e-text is available at Project Gutenberg. |
| 3 | Mary Shelley | Frankenstein, vols. 1-2. |
| 4 | Frankenstein, vol. 3. | |
| 5 | Edgar Allan Poe | Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Fall of the House of Usher.” In The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (1839). Edited by Stephen Marlowe. New York, NY: Signet Classics, 1998. ISBN: 9780451526755. Both the e-text and audio book are available at Project Gutenberg. |
| 6 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter, “Custom House.” - chapter 9. |
| 7 | The Scarlet Letter, chapters 10-end. | |
| 8 | Workshop: Crafting an argument | (no readings) |
| 9 | E. M. Forster | Howard’s End, chapters 1-16. |
| 10 | Howard’s End, chapters 17-end. | |
| 11 | D. H. Lawrence | Lawrence, D. H. Rocking Horse Winner (1926). Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9781419180835. |
| 12 | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse, “The Window,” and “Time Passes.” |
| 13 | To the Lighthouse, “The Lighthouse.” | |
| 14 | William Faulkner | As I Lay Dying, pp. 1-140. |
| 15 | As I Lay Dying, pp. 141-end. | |
| 16 | James Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 1-128. |
| 17 | Go Tell it on the Mountain, pp. 129-end. | |
| 18 |
Carson McCullers Workshop: Revising a paper |
McCullers, Carson. “A Domestic Dilemma.” In Collected Stories of Carson McCullers (1951). New York, NY: Mariner Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780395925058. |
| 19 | Flannery O’Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find, “A Good Man,” and “The Life You Save.” |
| 20 | A Good Man is Hard to Find, “Good Country People.” | |
| 21 | Cristina Garcia | Dreaming in Cuban, pp. 1-126. |
| 22 | Dreaming in Cuban, pp. 127-end. | |
| 23 | Toni Morrison | Jazz, pp. 1-87. |
| 24 | Jazz, pp. 89-end. | |
| 25 | Arundhati Roy | God of Small Things, chapters 1-7. |
| 26 | God of Small Things, chapters 8-end. |
