NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE
PERIODS (E Modern-19th-20th) GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary History
Unit I Pre-Colonial
Indian Oral LiteratureAlvar Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)
Unit II Colonial to 1760
Poetry
Bradstreet, Anne
Taylor, Edward Autobiography Smith, John (1580-1631)
Winthrop, John (1588-1649)
Bradford, William(1590-1657) HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION(1856)
Rowlandson, Mary (c. 1635-1711)
Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
Mather, Cotton(1663-1728) MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA(1702)
Edwards, Jonathan(1703-1758) SINNERS IN THE HANDS OT AN ANGRY GOD(1741)
Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-55)
Unit III Revolutionary and Romantic 1760-1830 Essay Franklin, Benjamin(1706-1790) POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK(1732-1757)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN(1791) Woolman, John (1720-72) Paine, Thomas(1737-1809) AGE OF REASON(1794-1795)-COMMON SENSE(1776)-RIGHTS OF MAN(1791-1792)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Jay, John(1745-1829) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Madison, James(1751-1836) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Hamilton, Alexander(1757-1804) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Autobiography Adams, Abigail and John (1744-1818, 1735-1826) LETTERS OF ABIGAIL ADAMS
Occom, Samson (1723-92) Equiano, Olaudah (1745-97)
Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1735-1813)
Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1753-1784) Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) & Jane Johnston (1800-43)
Fiction
Irving, Washington(1783-1859) HISTORY OF NEW YORK, A(1809)- RIP VAN WINKLE(1819-1820)-LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW(1820)
Cooper, James Fenimore(1789-1851) SPY(1821)-PILOT(1823)-PIONEERS(1823)-LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1826)-PRAIRIE(1827)-PATHFINDER(1840)- DEERSLAYER(1841)
Unit IV The American Renaissance 1830-65
Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth(1807-1882) EVANGELINE(1847)-SONG OF HIAWATHA(1855)-COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH(1858)
Whitman, Walt(1819-1892) LEAVES OF GRASS(1855)-DEMOCRATIC VISTAS(1871) Dickinson, Emily(1830-1886 COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON(1960) Autobiography Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE I GIRL(1861)
Douglass, Frederick(1818-1895) NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE(1845)
Essay
Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803-1882) AMERICAN SCHOLAR(1837)-REPRESENTATIVE MEN(1850)-SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE(1870)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-50) Thoreau, Henry David(1817-1862) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE(1849)-WEEK ON THE CONCOID-AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, A(1849)-WALDEN(1854)
Fiction
Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864) MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX(1832)-YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN(1835)-MINISTER’S BLACK VEIL(1836)- AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS(1837)-RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER(1844)-SCARLET LETTER(1850)-HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES(1851)-BLITHEDALE ROMANCE(1852)-MARBLE FAUN(1960)
Poe, Edgar Allan(1809-1849) LIGEIA(1838)- NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM(1838)-FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER(1839)- MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH(1842)-GOLD-BUG(1843)-TELL-TALE HEART(1843) Fern, Fanny (1811-72) Stowe, Harriet Beecher(1811-1896) UNCLE TOM’S CABIN(1851-1852)-OLDTOWN FOLKS(1869) Melville, Herman(1819-1891) TYPEE (1846)-OMOO(1847)-MARDI, AND A VOYAGE THITHER(1849)-WHITE-JACKET(1850)-REDBURN(1849)-MOBY DICK(1851)-PIERRE(1852)-BENITO CERENO(1855)-ISRAEL POTTER(1855)-CONFIDENCE MAN (1857)-BILLY BUDD, FONETOPMAN(1924)
Alcott, Louisa May(1832-1888) LITTLE WOMEN(1868)
Unit IV Realism and Naturalism (1865-1920) PoetryLanier, Sidney(1842-1881) POEMS(1877-1884)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935) TRISTRAM(1927)
Fiction
Twain, Mark(1835-1910) ROUGHING IT(1872)-GILDED AGE (1873)-ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER(1876)-PRINCE AND THE PAUPER(1881)- LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI(1883)-ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN(1884)-CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, A(1889) Howells, William Dean(1837- ) MODEM INSTANCE, A(1882)-RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM(1885)-INDIAN SUMMER(1886)-HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, A(1889) James, Henry (1843-1916) Chopin, Kate(1850-1904) AWAKENING (1899)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins(1860-1935) HERLAND(1915)
Wharton, Edith(1862-1937) HOUSE OF MIRTH(1905)-FRUIT OF THE TREE(1907)-ETHAN FROME(1911)-CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY(1913)- AGE OF INNOCENCE(1920)-OLD MAID(1924)
Du Bois, W. E. B.(1868-1963) SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS (1962) Tarkington, Booth(1869-1946) PENROD(1914)-TURMOIL (1915)-SEVENTEEN(1916)-MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS(1918)-GENTLE JULIA (1922)
Norris, Frank(1870-1902) MCTEAGUE(1899)-OCTOPUS (1901)-PIT (1903)OL
Crane, Stephen(1871-1900) MAGGIE(1893)-RED BADGE OF COURAGE(1895)-OPEN BOAT(1897)
Dreiser, Theodore(1871-1945) SISTER CARRIE(1900)-JENNIE GERHARDT(1911)-FINANCIER(1912)-TITAN (1914)-“GENIUS” (1915)-AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN(1925)-BULWARK (1946)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence(1872-1906) SPORT OF THE GODS (1901) Cather, Willa(1873-1947) O PIONEERS(1913)-SONG OF THE LARK (1915)-MY ANTONIA(1918)-ONE OF OURS(1922)-LOST LADY, A(1923)-PROFESSOR’S HOUSE(1925)-DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP(1927)-SHADOWS ON THE ROCK(1931)
London, Jack(1876-1916) CAN OF THE WILD (1903)- SEA-WOLF (1904)
Life Writing
Adams, Henry(1838-1918) DEMOCRACY(1880)-MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES(1904)-EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS(1907)
Black Elk(1863-1950) BLACK ELK SPEAKS(1932)
Essay
James, William(1842-1910) WILL TO BELIEVE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POPULAR PHILOSOPHY(1897)-VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE(1902)-PRAGMATISM(1907)
Unit V: 1920-1965 – American Modernism
Poetry
Frost, Robert(1874-1963) NORTH OF BOSTON(1914)
Sandburg, Carl(1878-1967) CHICAGO POEMS(1916)-ABRAHAM LINCOLN(1926-1939)-PEOPLE, YES (1936)
Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)
Stevens, Wallace(1879-1955) HARMONIUM(1923)-IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST(1934)
Williams, William Carlos(1883-1963) USE OF FORCE (1938)-PATERSON(1946-1958)
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) CANTOS(1917-1969)-HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY(1920)-PERSONAE(1926) H.D.(1886-1961) SEA GARDEN(1916)
Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Cummings, E. E.(1894-1962) ENORMOUS ROOM(1922) Hughes, Langston(1902-1967) WEARY BLUES (1926)
Drama O’Neill, Eugene(1888-1953) EMPEROR JONES (1920)-ANNA CHRISTIE(1921)-HAIRY APE (1922)-DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS(1924)-STRANGE INTERLUDE(1928)-MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA(1931)-ICEMAN COMETH (1946)-LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT(1956)
Williams, Tennessee(1911-1938) GLASS MENAGERIE (1944)-STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A(1947)-CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF(1955)- SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER(1958)-NIGHT OF THE IGUANA(1961)
Miller, Arthur(1915-2005) ALL MY SONS(1947)-DEATH OF A SALESMAN(1949)-CRUCIBLE (1953)-VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A(1955) Fiction
Stein, Gertrude(1874-1946) THREE LIVES(1909)-MAKING OF AMERICANS (1925)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (1933)
Anderson, Sherwood(1876-1941) WINESBURG, OHIO(1919)-POOR WHITE(1920)-DARK LAUGHTER(1925)
Sinclair, Upton(1878-1968) JUNGLE (1906)
Lewis, Sinclair(1885-1951) MAIN STREET(1920)-BABBITT(1922)-ARROWSMITH(1925)-ELMER GANTRY(1927)-DODSWORTH(1929)-CASS TIMBERLANE(1945)
Porter, Katherine Anne(1890-1980) PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER(1939)-SHIP OF FOOLS(1962)
Hurston, Zora Neale(1891-1960) THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD(1937)-DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD(1942)
Buck, Pearl S.(1892-1973) GOOD EARTH (1931)-DRAGON SEED(1942)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Faulkner, William(1897-1962) AS I LAY DYING(1930)-SARTORIS(1929)-SOUND AND THE FURY (1929)-ROSE FOR EMILY, A (1930)-SANCTUARY(1931)- THAT EVENING SUN (1931)-LIGHT IN AUGUST(1932)-ABSALOM, ABSALOM(1936)-INTRUDER IN THE DUST(1948)-REQUIEM FOR A NUN(1951)-FABLE, A(1954)-TOWN (1957)-MANSION (1959)-REIVERS (1962)
Hemingway, Ernest(1899-1961)SUN ALSO RISES (1926)-FAREWELL TO ARMS, A(1929)-DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON(1932)-GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA(1935)- FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS(1940)-OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952)-SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, AND OTHE STORIES (1961)-MOVEABLE FEAST, A(1964)- ISLANDS IN THE STREAM(1970)
Wolfe, Thomas(1900-1938) LOOK HOWEWARD, ANGEL(1929)-OF TIME AND THE RIVER(1935)-WEB AND THE ROCK (1939)-YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN(1940)
Steinbeck, John(1902-1968) TO A GOD UNKNOWN (1933)-TORTILLA FLAT(1935)-IN DUBIOUS BATTLE(1936)-CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1937)- OF MICE AND MEN(1937)-GRAPES OF WRATH (1939)-MOON IS DOWN (1942)-CANNERY ROW (1945)-EAST OF EDEN(1952)-WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT (1961) Caldwell, Erskine(1903-1987) TOBACCO ROAD(1932)-GOD'S LITTLE ACRE(1933)
Saroyan, William(1908-1981) TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1939)-HUMAN COMEDY (1943) Wright, Richard (1908-60)
Welty, Eudora(1909-2001) DELTA WEDDING(1946)-GOLDEN APPLES (1949)-PONDER HEART (1954)-OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER (1972)
Unit VI Late 20th Century
Poetry Bishop, Elizabeth(1911-1979) NORTH AND SOUTH(1946) Lowell, Robert(1917-1977) FOR THE UNION DEAD(1960)
Brooks, Gwendolyn(1917-2000) ANNIC ALLEN(1949)-MAUD MARTHA(1953)
Wilbur, Richard (1921- ) Rich, Adrienne(1929-2012) DIVING INTO THE WRECK(1973) Snyder, Gary (1930- )
Plath, Sylvia(1932-963) COLOSSUS, AND OTHER POEMS (1960)-BELL JAR(1963)-ARIEL(1965)
Robinson, Marilynne (1943—)
Autobiography Malcolm X(1925-1965) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (1965)
Ginsberg, Allen(1926-1997) HOWL(1956)
Angelou, Maya(1928-2014) I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS(1970) Momaday, N. Scott(1934- ) HOUSE MADE OF DAWN(1968)
Rodriguez, Richard(1944- ) HUNGER OF MEMORY(1982)
Dillard, Annie(1945- ) PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK(1974)
Drama
Albee , Edward (1928—
Fiction
Ellison, Ralph(1914-1994) INVISIBLE MAN(1952)-JUNETEENTH(1999) Jackson, Shirley(1916-1965) LOTTERY(1948)-HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE(1959)
McCullers, Carson(1917-1967) HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER(1940)-REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE(1941)-MEMBER OF THE WEDDING(1946)
Salinger, J. D.(1919-2010) CATCHER IN THE RYE(1951)-FRANNY AND ZOOEY(1955-1957) Vonnegut, Kurt(1922-2007) SIRENS OF TITAN(1959)-CAT’S CRADLE(1963)-SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE(1969)-BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS(1973)
Heller, Joseph(1923-1999) CATCH-22(1961) Mailer, Norman(1923-2007) NAKED AND THE DEAD (1948)-ARMIES OF THE NIGHT(1968)-EXECUTIONER’S SONG(1979) Baldwin, James(1924-1987) GO TEIL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN(1953)-NOTES OF A NATIVE SON(1955)-ANOTHER COUNTRY(1962)-FIRE NEXT TIME(1963)
O’Connor, Flannery(1925-1964) WISE BLOOD(1952)-GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, AND OTHER STORIES, A(1955)-VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY(1960) Styron, William(1925-2006) LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS(1951)-SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE(1960)-CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER(1967)-SOPHIE’S CHOICE(1979)
Lee, Harper(1926-2016) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD(1960)
Morrison, Toni(1931-2019) BLUEST EYE(1970)-SULA(1973)-SONG OF SOLOMON(1977)-BELOVED(1987)-JAZZ(1992)-PARADISE(1998)
Oates, Joyce Carol(1938- ) THEM(1969)-WONDERLAND(1971)-BELLEFLEUR(1980)-BLONDE(2000)-GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER(2007)
Kingston, Maxine Hong(1940- ) WOMAN WARRIOR(1976)
Tyler, Anne(1941- ) DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT(1982)-ACCIDENTAL TOURIST(1985)-BREATHING LESSONS(1988)
Walker, Alice(1944- ) MERIDIAN(1976)-COLOR PURPLE(1982)
Silko, Leslie Marmon(1948- ) CEREMONY(1977)-STORYTELLER(1981)-ALMANAC OF THE DEAD(1991)
Tan, Amy(1952- ) JOY LUCK CLUB(1989)-KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE(1991)
Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)
Essay
Friedan, Betty(1921-2006) FEMININE MYSTIQUE(1963)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.(1929-1968) LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL(1963)
PERIODS (E Modern-19th-20th) GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Autobiography -Essay )
Literary History
Unit I Pre-Colonial
Indian Oral LiteratureAlvar Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-c. 1557)
Unit II Colonial to 1760
Poetry
Bradstreet, Anne
Taylor, Edward Autobiography Smith, John (1580-1631)
Winthrop, John (1588-1649)
Bradford, William(1590-1657) HISTORY OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION(1856)
Rowlandson, Mary (c. 1635-1711)
Sewall, Samuel (1652-1730)
Mather, Cotton(1663-1728) MAGNALIA CHRISTI AMERICANA(1702)
Edwards, Jonathan(1703-1758) SINNERS IN THE HANDS OT AN ANGRY GOD(1741)
Ashbridge, Elizabeth (1713-55)
Unit III Revolutionary and Romantic 1760-1830 Essay Franklin, Benjamin(1706-1790) POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK(1732-1757)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN(1791) Woolman, John (1720-72) Paine, Thomas(1737-1809) AGE OF REASON(1794-1795)-COMMON SENSE(1776)-RIGHTS OF MAN(1791-1792)
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
Jay, John(1745-1829) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Madison, James(1751-1836) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Hamilton, Alexander(1757-1804) FEDERALIST(1787-1788)
Autobiography Adams, Abigail and John (1744-1818, 1735-1826) LETTERS OF ABIGAIL ADAMS
Occom, Samson (1723-92) Equiano, Olaudah (1745-97)
Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de (1735-1813)
Wheatley, Phillis (c. 1753-1784) Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793-1864) & Jane Johnston (1800-43)
Fiction
Irving, Washington(1783-1859) HISTORY OF NEW YORK, A(1809)- RIP VAN WINKLE(1819-1820)-LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW(1820)
Cooper, James Fenimore(1789-1851) SPY(1821)-PILOT(1823)-PIONEERS(1823)-LAST OF THE MOHICANS (1826)-PRAIRIE(1827)-PATHFINDER(1840)- DEERSLAYER(1841)
Unit IV The American Renaissance 1830-65
Poetry Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth(1807-1882) EVANGELINE(1847)-SONG OF HIAWATHA(1855)-COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH(1858)
Whitman, Walt(1819-1892) LEAVES OF GRASS(1855)-DEMOCRATIC VISTAS(1871) Dickinson, Emily(1830-1886 COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON(1960) Autobiography Jacobs, Harriet Ann (1813-1897) INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE I GIRL(1861)
Douglass, Frederick(1818-1895) NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE(1845)
Essay
Emerson, Ralph Waldo(1803-1882) AMERICAN SCHOLAR(1837)-REPRESENTATIVE MEN(1850)-SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE(1870)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-50) Thoreau, Henry David(1817-1862) CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE(1849)-WEEK ON THE CONCOID-AND MERRIMACK RIVERS, A(1849)-WALDEN(1854)
Fiction
Hawthorne, Nathaniel(1804-1864) MY KINSMAN, MAJOR MOLINEUX(1832)-YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN(1835)-MINISTER’S BLACK VEIL(1836)- AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS(1837)-RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER(1844)-SCARLET LETTER(1850)-HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES(1851)-BLITHEDALE ROMANCE(1852)-MARBLE FAUN(1960)
Poe, Edgar Allan(1809-1849) LIGEIA(1838)- NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM(1838)-FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER(1839)- MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH(1842)-GOLD-BUG(1843)-TELL-TALE HEART(1843) Fern, Fanny (1811-72) Stowe, Harriet Beecher(1811-1896) UNCLE TOM’S CABIN(1851-1852)-OLDTOWN FOLKS(1869) Melville, Herman(1819-1891) TYPEE (1846)-OMOO(1847)-MARDI, AND A VOYAGE THITHER(1849)-WHITE-JACKET(1850)-REDBURN(1849)-MOBY DICK(1851)-PIERRE(1852)-BENITO CERENO(1855)-ISRAEL POTTER(1855)-CONFIDENCE MAN (1857)-BILLY BUDD, FONETOPMAN(1924)
Alcott, Louisa May(1832-1888) LITTLE WOMEN(1868)
Unit IV Realism and Naturalism (1865-1920) PoetryLanier, Sidney(1842-1881) POEMS(1877-1884)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington(1869-1935) TRISTRAM(1927)
Fiction
Twain, Mark(1835-1910) ROUGHING IT(1872)-GILDED AGE (1873)-ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER(1876)-PRINCE AND THE PAUPER(1881)- LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI(1883)-ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN(1884)-CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, A(1889) Howells, William Dean(1837- ) MODEM INSTANCE, A(1882)-RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM(1885)-INDIAN SUMMER(1886)-HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, A(1889) James, Henry (1843-1916) Chopin, Kate(1850-1904) AWAKENING (1899)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins(1860-1935) HERLAND(1915)
Wharton, Edith(1862-1937) HOUSE OF MIRTH(1905)-FRUIT OF THE TREE(1907)-ETHAN FROME(1911)-CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY(1913)- AGE OF INNOCENCE(1920)-OLD MAID(1924)
Du Bois, W. E. B.(1868-1963) SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF W. E. B. DU BOIS (1962) Tarkington, Booth(1869-1946) PENROD(1914)-TURMOIL (1915)-SEVENTEEN(1916)-MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS(1918)-GENTLE JULIA (1922)
Norris, Frank(1870-1902) MCTEAGUE(1899)-OCTOPUS (1901)-PIT (1903)OL
Crane, Stephen(1871-1900) MAGGIE(1893)-RED BADGE OF COURAGE(1895)-OPEN BOAT(1897)
Dreiser, Theodore(1871-1945) SISTER CARRIE(1900)-JENNIE GERHARDT(1911)-FINANCIER(1912)-TITAN (1914)-“GENIUS” (1915)-AMERICAN TRAGEDY, AN(1925)-BULWARK (1946)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence(1872-1906) SPORT OF THE GODS (1901) Cather, Willa(1873-1947) O PIONEERS(1913)-SONG OF THE LARK (1915)-MY ANTONIA(1918)-ONE OF OURS(1922)-LOST LADY, A(1923)-PROFESSOR’S HOUSE(1925)-DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP(1927)-SHADOWS ON THE ROCK(1931)
London, Jack(1876-1916) CAN OF THE WILD (1903)- SEA-WOLF (1904)
Life Writing
Adams, Henry(1838-1918) DEMOCRACY(1880)-MONT-SAINT-MICHEL AND CHARTRES(1904)-EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS(1907)
Black Elk(1863-1950) BLACK ELK SPEAKS(1932)
Essay
James, William(1842-1910) WILL TO BELIEVE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POPULAR PHILOSOPHY(1897)-VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE(1902)-PRAGMATISM(1907)
Unit V: 1920-1965 – American Modernism
Poetry
Frost, Robert(1874-1963) NORTH OF BOSTON(1914)
Sandburg, Carl(1878-1967) CHICAGO POEMS(1916)-ABRAHAM LINCOLN(1926-1939)-PEOPLE, YES (1936)
Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)
Stevens, Wallace(1879-1955) HARMONIUM(1923)-IDEA OF ORDER AT KEY WEST(1934)
Williams, William Carlos(1883-1963) USE OF FORCE (1938)-PATERSON(1946-1958)
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) CANTOS(1917-1969)-HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY(1920)-PERSONAE(1926) H.D.(1886-1961) SEA GARDEN(1916)
Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Cummings, E. E.(1894-1962) ENORMOUS ROOM(1922) Hughes, Langston(1902-1967) WEARY BLUES (1926)
Drama O’Neill, Eugene(1888-1953) EMPEROR JONES (1920)-ANNA CHRISTIE(1921)-HAIRY APE (1922)-DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS(1924)-STRANGE INTERLUDE(1928)-MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA(1931)-ICEMAN COMETH (1946)-LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT(1956)
Williams, Tennessee(1911-1938) GLASS MENAGERIE (1944)-STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, A(1947)-CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF(1955)- SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER(1958)-NIGHT OF THE IGUANA(1961)
Miller, Arthur(1915-2005) ALL MY SONS(1947)-DEATH OF A SALESMAN(1949)-CRUCIBLE (1953)-VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, A(1955) Fiction
Stein, Gertrude(1874-1946) THREE LIVES(1909)-MAKING OF AMERICANS (1925)-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS (1933)
Anderson, Sherwood(1876-1941) WINESBURG, OHIO(1919)-POOR WHITE(1920)-DARK LAUGHTER(1925)
Sinclair, Upton(1878-1968) JUNGLE (1906)
Lewis, Sinclair(1885-1951) MAIN STREET(1920)-BABBITT(1922)-ARROWSMITH(1925)-ELMER GANTRY(1927)-DODSWORTH(1929)-CASS TIMBERLANE(1945)
Porter, Katherine Anne(1890-1980) PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER(1939)-SHIP OF FOOLS(1962)
Hurston, Zora Neale(1891-1960) THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD(1937)-DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD(1942)
Buck, Pearl S.(1892-1973) GOOD EARTH (1931)-DRAGON SEED(1942)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Faulkner, William(1897-1962) AS I LAY DYING(1930)-SARTORIS(1929)-SOUND AND THE FURY (1929)-ROSE FOR EMILY, A (1930)-SANCTUARY(1931)- THAT EVENING SUN (1931)-LIGHT IN AUGUST(1932)-ABSALOM, ABSALOM(1936)-INTRUDER IN THE DUST(1948)-REQUIEM FOR A NUN(1951)-FABLE, A(1954)-TOWN (1957)-MANSION (1959)-REIVERS (1962)
Hemingway, Ernest(1899-1961)SUN ALSO RISES (1926)-FAREWELL TO ARMS, A(1929)-DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON(1932)-GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA(1935)- FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS(1940)-OLD MAN AND THE SEA (1952)-SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO, AND OTHE STORIES (1961)-MOVEABLE FEAST, A(1964)- ISLANDS IN THE STREAM(1970)
Wolfe, Thomas(1900-1938) LOOK HOWEWARD, ANGEL(1929)-OF TIME AND THE RIVER(1935)-WEB AND THE ROCK (1939)-YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN(1940)
Steinbeck, John(1902-1968) TO A GOD UNKNOWN (1933)-TORTILLA FLAT(1935)-IN DUBIOUS BATTLE(1936)-CHRYSANTHEMUMS (1937)- OF MICE AND MEN(1937)-GRAPES OF WRATH (1939)-MOON IS DOWN (1942)-CANNERY ROW (1945)-EAST OF EDEN(1952)-WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT (1961) Caldwell, Erskine(1903-1987) TOBACCO ROAD(1932)-GOD'S LITTLE ACRE(1933)
Saroyan, William(1908-1981) TIME OF YOUR LIFE (1939)-HUMAN COMEDY (1943) Wright, Richard (1908-60)
Welty, Eudora(1909-2001) DELTA WEDDING(1946)-GOLDEN APPLES (1949)-PONDER HEART (1954)-OPTIMIST’S DAUGHTER (1972)
Unit VI Late 20th Century
Poetry Bishop, Elizabeth(1911-1979) NORTH AND SOUTH(1946) Lowell, Robert(1917-1977) FOR THE UNION DEAD(1960)
Brooks, Gwendolyn(1917-2000) ANNIC ALLEN(1949)-MAUD MARTHA(1953)
Wilbur, Richard (1921- ) Rich, Adrienne(1929-2012) DIVING INTO THE WRECK(1973) Snyder, Gary (1930- )
Plath, Sylvia(1932-963) COLOSSUS, AND OTHER POEMS (1960)-BELL JAR(1963)-ARIEL(1965)
Robinson, Marilynne (1943—)
Autobiography Malcolm X(1925-1965) AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X (1965)
Ginsberg, Allen(1926-1997) HOWL(1956)
Angelou, Maya(1928-2014) I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS(1970) Momaday, N. Scott(1934- ) HOUSE MADE OF DAWN(1968)
Rodriguez, Richard(1944- ) HUNGER OF MEMORY(1982)
Dillard, Annie(1945- ) PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK(1974)
Drama
Albee , Edward (1928—
Fiction
Ellison, Ralph(1914-1994) INVISIBLE MAN(1952)-JUNETEENTH(1999) Jackson, Shirley(1916-1965) LOTTERY(1948)-HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE(1959)
McCullers, Carson(1917-1967) HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER(1940)-REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE(1941)-MEMBER OF THE WEDDING(1946)
Salinger, J. D.(1919-2010) CATCHER IN THE RYE(1951)-FRANNY AND ZOOEY(1955-1957) Vonnegut, Kurt(1922-2007) SIRENS OF TITAN(1959)-CAT’S CRADLE(1963)-SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE(1969)-BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS(1973)
Heller, Joseph(1923-1999) CATCH-22(1961) Mailer, Norman(1923-2007) NAKED AND THE DEAD (1948)-ARMIES OF THE NIGHT(1968)-EXECUTIONER’S SONG(1979) Baldwin, James(1924-1987) GO TEIL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN(1953)-NOTES OF A NATIVE SON(1955)-ANOTHER COUNTRY(1962)-FIRE NEXT TIME(1963)
O’Connor, Flannery(1925-1964) WISE BLOOD(1952)-GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, AND OTHER STORIES, A(1955)-VIOLENT BEAR IT AWAY(1960) Styron, William(1925-2006) LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS(1951)-SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE(1960)-CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER(1967)-SOPHIE’S CHOICE(1979)
Lee, Harper(1926-2016) TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD(1960)
Morrison, Toni(1931-2019) BLUEST EYE(1970)-SULA(1973)-SONG OF SOLOMON(1977)-BELOVED(1987)-JAZZ(1992)-PARADISE(1998)
Oates, Joyce Carol(1938- ) THEM(1969)-WONDERLAND(1971)-BELLEFLEUR(1980)-BLONDE(2000)-GRAVEDIGGER’S DAUGHTER(2007)
Kingston, Maxine Hong(1940- ) WOMAN WARRIOR(1976)
Tyler, Anne(1941- ) DINNER AT THE HOMESICK RESTAURANT(1982)-ACCIDENTAL TOURIST(1985)-BREATHING LESSONS(1988)
Walker, Alice(1944- ) MERIDIAN(1976)-COLOR PURPLE(1982)
Silko, Leslie Marmon(1948- ) CEREMONY(1977)-STORYTELLER(1981)-ALMANAC OF THE DEAD(1991)
Tan, Amy(1952- ) JOY LUCK CLUB(1989)-KITCHEN GOD’S WIFE(1991)
Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)
Essay
Friedan, Betty(1921-2006) FEMININE MYSTIQUE(1963)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.(1929-1968) LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM CITY JAIL(1963)