ENG 204-01: Survey of American Literature

 Summer 2008

 

Syllabus

Discussion Leadership Assignment
Discussion Leadership Dates (updated with names)

 

Reading Guides:

Part One

Part Two

 

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Frederick Douglass

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

 

Second Half of the Semester:

American Literature, 1865-1914

Kate Chopin

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Jack London

American Modernism

Robert Frost

Ezra Pound

T.S. Eliot

William Carlos Williams

Tennessee Williams

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

William Faulkner

Flannery O’Connor

Alice Walker

Elizabeth Bishop

Sylvia Plath

Adrienne Rich

Allen Ginsberg

Gwendolyn Brooks

 

 

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