Texts from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 7th Ed.:
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
- Henry David Thoreau, extracts from Walden (“Economy” and “Conclusion”)
- Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave’s Dream”
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
- Emily Dickinson, poems no. 122, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1263
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Purloined Letter”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
- Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno”
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth”
- Edith Wharton, “The Other Two”
Novels to be bought separately:
- Henry James, Roderick Hudson (Penguin Classics)
- Kate Chopin, The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)