ENG 204-04: Survey of American Literature

 Fall 2011

 

Syllabus and Schedule

Critical Analysis Essay

 

Ron Rash: Appalachian Writer-in-Residence

 

Reading Guides

Part One (Beginning-Whitman)

Part Two (Dickinson-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

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Walt Whitman

 

Second Half of the Semester:

Emily Dickinson

American Literature, 1865-1914

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jack London

Robert Frost

American Modernism

T.S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

William Faulkner

Tennessee Williams

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

Gwendolyn Brooks

Elizabeth Bishop

Allen Ginsberg

Maxine Hong Kingston

Jhumpa Lahiri

 

 

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