ENG 204-01 & 204-02: Survey of American Literature

 Fall 2008

 

Syllabus and Schedule

Commonplace Book

Commonplace Book Rubric

 

Appalachian Writer-in-Residence Page

 

Reading Guides

Part One (Beginning-Emily Dickinson)

Part Two (Chopin-Lahiri)

 

Biographical/Historical Notes:

(Keep in mind that this biographical/historical information is not meant to substitute for the notes you should take during class discussions)

 

First Half of the Semester:

Early American Peoples and European Exploration

Native American Creation Stories

John Smith

Puritanism and American Literature

Anne Bradstreet

Edward Taylor

Benjamin Franklin

Phillis Wheatley

The American Renaissance

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Allan Poe

Herman Melville

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

 

Second Half of the Semester:

American Literature, 1865-1914

Sarah Orne Jewett

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jack London

Robert Frost

American Modernism

T.S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Richard Wright

Elizabeth Bishop

Adrienne Rich

Sylvia Plath

William Faulkner

Flannery O’Connor

Tennessee Williams

Allen Ginsberg

Alice Walker

Gwendolyn Brooks

Maxine Hong Kingston

Jhumpa Lahiri

 

 

 

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