Baym, Nina, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 7th ed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393930573.
[Morrison] = Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Plume, 1993. ISBN: 9780452269651.
All page numbers are in the Norton Anthology, unless otherwise noted. Students are expected to read historical and biographical head-notes for readings in the Norton Anthology.
SES # | TOPICS | |
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Origins | ||
2 |
William Bradford pp. 57-75. Mary Rowlandson pp. 117-34. (read text at Annotation Studio) | |
3 |
Benjamin Franklin pp. 230-46, 276-92. Washington Irving pp. 453-66. | |
Declarations of Independence | ||
6 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson pp. 488-519. Henry David Thoreau pp. 844-86. | |
7 | Henry David Thoreau pp. 886-920. | |
9 | Nathaniel Hawthorne pp. 589-643. | |
10 | Frederick Douglass pp. 920-88. | |
11 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe pp. 764-99. Harriet Jacobs pp. 804-25. | |
12 | Herman Melville pp. 1118-74. | |
14 | Walt Whitman pp. 991-1088, selections. | |
15 | Emily Dickinson pp. 1197-1225, selections. | |
Realism and Satire | ||
16 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1270-1343. | |
17 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1343-1410. | |
18 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1410-63. | |
19 |
Sarah Orne Jewett pp. 1590-98. Kate Chopin pp. 1602-19. Charlotte Perkins Gilman pp. 1695-1719. | |
20 |
Henry James pp. 1532-79. Edith Wharton pp. 1695-1719. | |
Vision and Revision | ||
22 |
Claude McKay pp. 2044-47. Zora Neale Hurston pp. 2057-69. Langston Hughes pp. 2263-71. Countee Cullen pp. 2283-87. Richard Wright pp. 2287-97. | |
23 | [Morrison] pp. 4–87. | |
24 | [Morrison] pp. 89–162. | |
25 | [Morrison] pp. 165–229. |