ENG 204-02 & ENGL 204-04: Survey of American Literature

 Spring 2012

 

Syllabus and Schedule

Critical Analysis Paper

 

Reading Guides

Part One (Beginning-Dickinson)

Part Two (Freeman-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

Emily Dickinson

 

Second Half of the Semester:

American Literature, 1865-1914

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Kate Chopin

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jack London

Robert Frost

American Modernism

T.S. Eliot

Ezra Pound

William Carlos Williams

William Faulkner

Langston Hughes

Gwendolyn Brooks

Tennessee Williams

Elizabeth Bishop

Allen Ginsberg

Toni Morrison

Philip Roth

Maxine Hong Kingston

Jhumpa Lahiri

 

 

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