American Literature survey workshop

Syllabus for the FIRST half of the course:



Background of America
Columbus
William Bradford and Pilgrims
Captain John Smith
Sarah Kemble Knight
Bradstreet, Horton, and Taylor
Samuel Sewall and William Byrd
Spanish Legacy to American Literature
Jonathan Edwards
Abigail Adams
Ben Franklin
Phillis Wheatley
Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry
Declaration of Independence
Songs of Revolution
George Washington and John Adams
Bill of Rights and the Constitution
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur
Western Cowboy songs
Mike Fink and Davy Crockett
Philip Freneau
Frontier Hero
James Fenimore Cooper
Lewis and Clark
Washington Irving
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Folk Tales and American Myths
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
William Cullen Bryant
Noah Webster
Indian Speeches
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Pulp Western Novels?
Ambrose Bierce
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Negro Spirituals
Slave Narratives
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist Writers
Stephen Vincent Benet
Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane and Upton Sinclair
Willa Cather
Kate Chopin