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Introduction to American Literature: The
American Experience
Notes on the First Four Colonies: South,
New England,
South, New
York
History--The South
John Smith from
The General History of Virginia
>>Virtual Jamestown
Webquest: Visit
Virtual Jamestown (homework credit)
The New England Colony: Puritans &
Pilgrims
History--New
England
Puritan Poetry
The Salem Witch Trails
Cotton Mather
from The Wonders of the Invisible World (Salem Withcraft Trials)
Concepts: Journal Entry, bias
Read The Crucible-- a
play by Arthur Miller
Online Quiz: Check
Your Puritan I.Q.
The First Great Awakening
1800-1840 A Growing Nation: From Reason
to Romance
European Romantics
Early American
Fiction
The Rise of the
Short Story:
Short Story Collections
Individual Writers
Washington
Irving
"The Devil and Tom Walker"
Concepts: Folk Tale
Washington Irving:
Selections
James Fenimore Cooper
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Fall of the
House of Usher"
"The Oval
Portrait"
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works
Poetry
"The Raven"
"To Helen"
1840-1855 The New England Renaissance:
Romanticism to Transcendentalism--The Utopian Era
"Introduction to
Transcendentalism"
Individual Writers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
from Nature; from Self-Reliance
Concepts: Transcendentalism, analogies, conformity
"The American Scholar"
"Concord Hymn"
Concepts: writing about history
Anti-Transcendentalism:
Hawthorne and Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Minister's Black Veil"
Concepts: Anti-Transcendentalism, parables
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: Novels and Short Stories
Hermman Melville
Moby Dick
Concepts: Anti-transcendentalism, symbolism, theme
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow: Selections
Late Romanticism and Poetry
Visit The
Emily Dickinson Museum
Emily
Dickinson
"'Hope' is the
thing with feathers--"
"There is a
certain Slant of light--"
"A narrow Fellow
in the Grass"
"Because I could
not stop for Death--"
"The Bustle in a
House"
"Much Madness is divinest Sense"
Concepts: Style, unconventional
punctuation and capitalization, brevity of lines and stanzas; figurative
language, quatrains.
Walt Whitman
"Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass"
"Song of Myself"
"Beat! Beat! Drums!"
Walt
Whitman: Revising Himself
Walt Whitman Archive
Mark
Twain
Supplementary Reading
Sir Walter Scott:
Selections
Harriet Beecher Stow
1850-1865
"The Civil War"
Frederick Douglas
"My Bondage and My Freedom"
Concept: Autobiography
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
From
Mary Chesnut's
Civil War Journal
Abraham Lincoln
Matthew
Brady Portraits
Matthew Brady and the Civil War
Civil War
Photographs Homepage
Civil War
Virtual Battlefield Tours
Internet
Field Trip: Civil War
Photographs of the Civil War
More
Photographs of the Civil War
Robert E. Lee
"Letter to his Son"
Walt Whitman Revisited
"When
Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
Booker
T. Washington: Up From Slavery
1865-1900 Early American Short Stories:
Romanticism to Naturalism
O'Henry's Short Stories
O'Henry
Regionalism--The WEST
Mark Twain
from Roughing It, "Tom Quartz"
Concepts: Point of View, Exaggeration, Dialect
from Life on the Mississippi, "The
Boys' Ambition"
Concepts: Narration
"The Notorious Jumping Frog
of Calaveras County"
Concepts: Humor-- Point of View, Exaggeration, Regional Dialects, and Tone
Bret Harte
The
Outcasts of Poker Flats
Concept: Regionalism
The Luck
of Roaring Camp
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
"An
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge"
Concepts: Point of View, Sequence of Events, Irony
Kate Chopin
"The Story of an Hour"
Concepts: Irony, the role of women in society
Realism to Naturalism
Jack London
"To Build a Fire"
Concepts: Conflict, Theme, Realism
Stephen Crane
"The
Open Boat"
Concepts: Realism and Naturalism, Symbols
Frederick
Jackson Turner
Frederick Jackson's
Turner's Frontier Thesis: The Frontier in American History
O'Henry Collection
Zane Grey
Dime
Novels: American Treasures of the Library of Congress
Edith Wharton:
Selections
Henry
James: selected work
Hypertext: "How the Other Half Lives" Social Reform in 19 Century
America
Supplementary Photographs
Read The Great Gatsby
Ring Lardner
Sherwood
Anderson
"Sophistication"
Concepts: Modernism, a different look at small town life, understanding a
character's motivation
Ernest Hemingway, "In Another
Country"
Concepts: Modernism, style, symbolism, theme
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Winter
Dreams"
Concepts: Characterization, historical context
Katherine Anne Porter
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
Concepts: Stream of Consciousness, Flashbacks, symbolism, style
Thomas Wolfe
"The Far and the Near"
Concepts: Point of View -- limited third person
Eudora Welty
"A Worn Path"
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
"The Bear"
Concepts: Symbolism,
Allusions, Flashbacks, Point of View, Diction
Supplementary References
Parody
Other American Writers
Modern Poetry
William Butler Yeats
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
Wallace Stevens
"Anecdote of the Jar."
Concepts: Interpretating Symbolism
William Carlos Williams
"The Red Wheelbarrow"
"This Is Just To Say"
Concepts: Writing an Apology
Carl Sandburg
"Grass"
"Chicago"
Concepts: Free Verse
e.e. cummings
"since feeling is first,"
"anyone lived in a pretty how town,"
"old age sticks,"
Concepts: Writing about Style
Robert Frost
Parody:
The Modern
Humorist: Funny parodies of famous poems
Langston Hughes
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Concepts: a comparison between rivers and black people
Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House
Five
Post Modern World War II-Present
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Concepts: Irony
JOHN UPDIKE
Concepts: Diction, Style, Understanding Jargon
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Concepts: Point of View
DONALD BARTHELME
Concepts: Experimental Fiction
LARRY
McMURTY
Lonesome Dove
Concepts: Setting, Sensory Language
Shirley Jackson
Site Online
VIETNAM: THE THINGS THEY CARRIED,
Tim O'Brian
Novels Read:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Great Gatsby
Slaughter House Five
The Things They Carried
Drama: The Crucible
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