Syllabus

Texts from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Ed.:

  • William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
  • Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
  • Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave’s Dream”
  • Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
  • Emily Dickinson, poems no. 122, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1263
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
  • Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno”
  • Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”
  • William Dean Howells, “Editha”

Novels to be bought separately:

  • Lillie Devereux Blake, Fettered for Life (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996)
  • Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, ed. Elizabeth Ammons (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990)
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