AMERICAN CIVILIZATION
INTRODUCTION SYLLABUS PROJECTS
STUDY GUIDES American History American Culture American Literature American Autobiography Native-American Autobioghraphy American Cinema
LECTURES READINGS DISCUSSION
HISTORY (Ancient-Postclassical-E Modern-19th-20th) POL(Government-Military) SOC(Class-Gender) ECO(Innovation-Trade) CUL(Sci-Art-Rel-Phi-Lit)
CULTURE (Ancient-Postclassical-E Modern-19th-20th ) VERBAL(Lit-Lng-Script-Myth-Folklore) VISUAL(Pnt-Sclp-Arch) PERFORMING(Dnc-Mus-Thea-Cin)
LITERATURE (E Modern-19th-20th) GENRES ( Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
CIVILIZATION Ancient (His-Cul) Postclassical(His-Cul) Early Modern(His-Cul-Lit) 19th Century(His-Cul-Lit) 20th Century(His-Cul-Lit)
LITERARY ENCYCLOPEDIA (Authors-Works-Characters)
Pre-Colonial Introduction Indian Oral Literature Alvar Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)
Colonial to 1760
Poetry Puritan Poetry:Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-55)
Autobiography John Smith (1580-1631) John Winthrop (1588-1649) William Bradford (1590-1657)
Mary Rowlandson (c. 1635-1711) Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) Jonathan Edwards (1703-58)
Period II: 1760-1830 – Revolutionary and Romantic Introduction
Essay Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) John Woolman (1720-72) Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Autobiography Samson Occom (1723-92) Olaudah Equiano (1745-97) J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813)
John and Abigail Adams (1735-1826, 1744-1818) Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) & Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-43)
Fiction Washington Irving (1783-1859) James Fennimore Cooper (1789-1851)
Period III: 1830-65 – The American Renaissance Introduction
Poetry Walt Whitman (1819-92) Emily Dickinson (1830-86)
Autobiography Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-97) Frederick Douglass (1818-95)
Essay Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) Margaret Fuller (1810-50) Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)
Fiction Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) THE SCARLET LETTER - THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49)
Fanny Fern
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96)
Herman Melville (1819-91) TYPEE - MOBY DICK - THE CONFIDENCE MAN - BENITO CERENO -
Period IV: Realism and Naturalism (1865-1920) Introduction
Poetry Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)
Fiction Mark Twain (1835-1910) HUCKLEBERRY FINN William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
Henry James (1843-1916) THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Regionalism
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) THE REEF
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) THE TURMOIL - THE MAGNIFICIENT AMBERSONS - SEVENTEEN - ALICE ADAMS
Frank Norris (1870-1902)
Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Jack London (1876-1916)
Period V: 1920-1965 – American Modern Introduction
Poetry Robert Frost (1874-1963) Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) Langston Hughes (1902-67)
Essay Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)
Drama Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
Tennessee Williams (1911-83)
Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
Fiction Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) THE GREAT GATSBY - TENDER IS THE NIGHT
William Faulkner (1897-1962) LIGHT IN AUGUST - AS I LAY DYING
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) FOR WHOM THE BELLS TOLLS - THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) THE GRAPES OF WRATH - EAST OF EDEN - OF MICE AND MEN - TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
Richard Wright (1908-60)
Period VI: 1965-Present – Post-Modern Introduction
Poetry Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) Robert Lowell (1917-77) Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Richard Wilbur (1921—
Adrienne Rich (1929— Gary Snyder (1930— Marilynne Robinson (1943—
Autobiography Allen Ginsberg (1926-97) N. Scott Momaday (1934—
Drama Edward Albee (1928—
Fiction Ralph Ellison (1914-94)
Carson McCullers (1917-1967) BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE - THE HEART I9S A LONELY HUNTER -
J. D. Salinger (1919- 2010) THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
Joseph Heller (1923-1999) CATCH - 22
Norman Mailer (1923-2007) James Baldwin (1924-87)
Flannery O’Connor (1925-64)
Maxine Hong Kingston (1940—
Alice Walker (1944-
David Foster Wallace(1962-2008) INFINITE TEST - THE PALE KING