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Reading List and Writing Assignments for American Literature (Sommers 2005-06) Pre-Puritan: Excerpts from People’s History of the United States and Rethinking Columbus Puritanism: Beginnings -1760 Introduction, pages 2-5 Plain and Ornate Style, pages 32-33 Anne Bradstreet, “Upon the Burning of Our House” pages 34-37 Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” pages 54-59 Arthur Miller, The Crucible and related essays (book) Olaudah Equiano, “Interesting Narrative…” Writing a personal narrative (POV, theme, tone) page 63 Classicism: 1760-1800 Introduction, pages 66-73 Did You Know… Revolutionary War Trivia Ben Franklin, “The Autobiography,” “Poor Richard’s Almanac,” “A Printer’s Epitaph” pages 74-88 Writing aphorisms, epitaphs Thomas Paine, “The Crisis, Number 1” pages 95-96 Michele de Crevecouer, “Letter From an American Farmer” pages 106-107 Short essay: What is an American? Phyllis Wheatley, “To His Excellency General Washington,” pages 109-110; “On Coming From Africa” (handout) First Harvest: New Republic 1800-1840 Introduction, pages 116-125 (What is Classicism? What is Romanticism?) Washington Irving, “The Devil and Tom Walker” pages 126-128; “Rip van Winkle” (handout) William Cullen Bryant, “To a Water Fowl” and “Thanatopsis” pages 150-157 E. A. Poe, “Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” “Poe and the Surrealists” page 158-196 Literary Analysis of Poe poem or short story, page197 The Flowering of New England: 1840-1860 Introduction, pages 200-211 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “from Nature” (214), “from Self-Reliance” (215), “The Rhodora” (225), “Brahma” (226), “Concord Hymn” (227) Henry David Thoreau, “From Walden” pages 230-232 Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” pages 249-255, “The Minister’ s Black Veil” pages 247-256 Herman Melville, excerpts from Moby Dick (handouts); “Shiloh: A Requiem,” “Maldive Shark” pages 294-295 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life” (297), “Nature” (298), “The Arrow & the Song,” (298), “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” (302) Emily Dickinson, “I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” (323), “Faith Is a Fine Invention” (324), “Success Is Counted Sweetest” (325), “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” (326), “There’s a Certain Slant of Light” (328), “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” (329) Writing a personal essay, page 335) A House Divided Against Itself: 1860-1890 Introduction, 338-348 Frederick Douglass, excerpts from My Bondage, My Freedom pages 363-365 Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address,” pages 366-367 Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” (351), “I Hear America Singing” (354), “When Lilacs Last in Dooryard Bloom’d” (handout) Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” page 422-429 Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (in class edition) Realism and Naturalism: 1980-1914 Introduction, pages 436-449 Paul Lawrence Dunbar, “Douglass” “Life’s Tragedy” pages 506-508 Stephen Crane, “Open Boat,” pages 450-467 Willa Cather, “The Sculptor’s Funeral,” pages 470-481 Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory” (497), “Miniver Cheevy” (497) Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” “A Pair of Silk Stockings” (handouts) Literature of the Immigrant Experience: Introduction, pages 516-519 Mary Antin, “The Promised Land,” pages 526-532 Upton Sinclair, excerpts from The Jungle, pages 533-539 Hamilton Holt, Lives of Undistinguished Americans, excerpts handed out Interview and Narrate an Immigrant’s Story (Project) Modern Fiction: Introduction, pages 564-579 William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily,” pages 624-633 Ernest Hemingway, “In Another Country” pages 645-653; excerpts from In Our Time F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (novel) Term Paper: TBD Modern Poetry: Introduction, pages 738-739 Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (741), “Fire and Ice” (742), “Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening” (742), “Out, Out--” Claude McKay, “The Tropics of New York” (798) Langston Hughes, “Dream Deferred,” “Dream Variations” “A Negro Speaks of Rivers” (handouts) Film: Bamboozled (history of blackface in America) Postmodernism: 1950-present Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (handout) Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” (handout), “Lady Lazarus” (handout) Allen Ginsberg, excerpts from Howl Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (handout) Write a “beatnik” poem