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Reading List for Southern Literature Comprehensive Exam I. Primary Texts 1. Michael Drayton, “To the Virginian Voyage” 2. John Smith, A True Relation of Such Occurrences and Accidents of Note as Hath Hapned in Virginia; The Generall History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles 3. George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland 4. Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia 5. Ebenezer Cook, “The Sot-Weed Factor” 6. William Byrd, History of the Dividing Line; Secret History of the Dividing Line; selections from the Diary 7. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia 8. John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black 9. William Bartram, Travels (selections) 8. Angelina Grimké Weld, Appeal to the Christian Women of the South 9. George Moses Horton, “Division of an Estate”; “George Moses Horton, Myself”; “The Slave’s Complaint” 10. Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”; “Ligeia”; “The Masque of Red Death”; “The Raven”; “Ulalume”; “The Philosophy of Composition” 11. William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee OR Woodcraft 12. John Pendleton Kennedy, Swallow Barn 13. James Henry Hammond, “Letter to an English Abolitionist” 14. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; My Bondage and My Freedom 15. Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Georgia Scenes OR Johnson Jones Hooper, Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers 16. T.B. Thorpe, “The Big Bear of Arkansas” 17. Henry Timrod, “The Cotton Boll”; “Ethnogenesis” 18. Mary Chesnut, excerpts from Mary Chesnut’s Civil War 19. Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 20. E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand OR Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Beulah 21. Sidney Lanier, “The Marshes of Glynn”; “Song of the Chattahoochee” 22. George Washington Cable, The Grandissimes 23. Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; “Enchantments and Enchanters” (ch. 46 of Life on the Mississippi); Puddn’head Wilson 24. Thomas Nelson Page, In Ole Virginia 25. George Washington Harris, “Parson John Bullin’s Lizards”; Mrs. Yardley’s Quiltling” 26. Kate Chopin, The Awakening 27. Mary Noailles Murfree, “The ‘Harnt’ That Walks Chilhowee”; “The Star in the Valley” 28. Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition; “The Goophered Grapevine”; “Po’ Sandy” 29. Joel Chandler Harris, “Free Joe and the Rest of the World” and one Uncle Remus story. 30. Henry W. Grady, “The New South” 31. Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery 32. H.L. Mencken, “The Sahara of the Bozart” 33. Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground, The Sheltered Life, OR Vein of Iron (one of the three) 34. Evelyn Scott, Escapade 35. John Crowe Ransom, “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”; “Janet Waking”; “Spectral Lovers”; “Necrological”; “Amphibious Crocodile” 36. Allen Tate, “To Intellectual Detachment”; “Ode to the Confederate Dead”; “Last Days of Alice”; “Aeneas at Washington”; “The Mediterranean”; “The Swimmers”; “The New Provincialism” (essay) 37. Caroline Gordon, Aleck Maury, Sportsman OR Green Centuries 38. Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition 39. Jean Toomer, Cane 40. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August OR Go Down, Moses; Absalom, Absalom!; “Barn Burning” 41. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Time of Man OR The Great Meadow 42. Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 43. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes 44. Erksine Caldwell, Tobacco Road OR God’s Little Acre 45. Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel 46. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God; “Characteristics of Negro Expression”; “The Gilded Six-Bits” 47. James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; A Death in the Family 48. Robert Penn Warren, All the King’s Men, “The Ballad of Billie Potts”; Audubon: A Vision 49. Richard Wright, Black Boy; “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” 50. Eudora Welty, “Why I Live at the P.O”; “A Worn Path”; “Petrified Man”; “A Memory”; Delta Wedding; “Place in Fiction”; “Must the Novelist Crusade?” 51. Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream 52. Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 53. Katherine Anne Porter, “Old Mortality”; “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”; “He”; “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”; “The Old Order”; “The Grave” 54. Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man 55. Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms OR A Tree of Night 56. Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”; “Good Country People”; “Everything That Rises Must Converge”; “Revelation”; Wise Blood; “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction” 57. A.R. Ammons, “So I Said I Am Ezra”; “Corson’s Inlet”; “Easter Morning” 58. Walker Percy, The Moviegoer 59. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird 60. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 61. James Dickey, “The Heaven of Animals”; “The Firebombing”; “The Lifeguard”; “Cherrylog Road”; “Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek”; “The Strength of Fields”; “Falling” OR Deliverance. 62. Alice Walker, “Revolutionary Petunias”; “For My Sister Molly Who in the Fifties”; “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”; “Everyday Use”; The Color Purple 63. Ernest Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman OR A Lesson Before Dying 64. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 65. Peter Taylor, “In the Miro District,” “Miss Leonora When Last Seen,” and “Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time”; OR A Summons to Memphis 66. Alex Haley, Roots 67. Wendell Berry, “The Regional Motive”; “The Work of Local Culture”; “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” 68. Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”; “Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed”; “Water Liars” 69. Cormac McCarthy, Suttree 70. John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces 71. Bobbie Ann Mason, “Shiloh”; “Still Life with Watermelon”; “Three-Wheeler” 72. Lee Smith, Oral History and a second novel 73. Marsha Norman, ‘night, Mother 74. Dorothy Allison, Bastard out of Carolina 75. Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It,” “Ia Drang Valley,” “Jasmine,” “My Father’s Love Letters,” “Nude Interrogation,” “Nude Study,” “Saigon Bar Girls, 1975,” and “Slam, Dunk, & Hook” 76. Randall Kenan, A Visitation of Spirits 77. Natasha Trethewey, Bellocq’s Ophelia 78. Nikki Finney, “God Ain’t Making No More Land,” “Pluck,” “Cotton Tea,” [all from Rice]; “Left,” “Dancing with Strom,” and “My Time Up with You” [all in Head Off and Split]. 79. Cynthia Shearer, The Celestial Jukebox II. Critical, Historical, and Secondary Works 1. Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South (selections) 2. Lewis P. Simpson, The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature 3. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South 4. Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made 5. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South 6. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The Wary Fugitive OR The Edge of the Swamp 7. Cleanth Brooks, William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country 8. W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South 9. Michael Kreyling, Inventing Southern Literature 10. Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan Donaldson (eds.), Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts 11. Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing, 1930-1990 12. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn, eds., Look Away! The U.S South in New World Studies 13. Houston A. Baker, Jr., Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/ReReading Booker T. 14. Trudier Harris, The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: American American Writers and the South 15. Jennifer Rae Greeson, Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature 16. Special editions of American Literature on New Southern Studies (June 2001 and December 2006) 17. Leigh Ann Duck, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism 18. Scott Romine, The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction 19. Daniel Cross Turner, Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South