Main group 1

• Paul, Kathleen, Whitewashing Britain: race and citizenship in the postwar era, Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1997Compulsory*
• Nash, Gary B., History on trial: culture wars and the teaching of the past, New York, Vintage, 2000Compulsory*
• Takaki, Ronald T., A different mirror: a history of multicultural America, 1st rev. ed., New York, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co., 2008Compulsory*

Main group 2

8-10 of the texts below will be selected by the teacher.

• Angelou, Maya, I know why the caged bird sings, 32. pr., New York, Bantam, 1971, pr. 1988
• Antin, Mary, The promised land, London, Heinemann, 1912
• Baldwin, James, Notes of a native son., [New ed.], reiss., London, Corgi, 1969
• Bechdel, Alison, Fun home: a family tragicomic, 1st Mariner Books ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
• Burroughs, Stephen, Memoirs of Stephen Burroughs.: [Two lines of verse] Copy right secured., [Hanover], Printed at Hanover, Newhampshire by Benjamin True, MDCCXCVIII. [1798]
• Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango Street., New York, Vintage, 1991
• Danticat, Edwidge, Brother, I'm dying, 1st Vantage books ed., New York, Vantage Books, 2008
• Didion, Joan, The year of magical thinking, London, Fourth Estate, 2005
• Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
• Eggers, Dave, What is the what: the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2007
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Dikter i urval
• Gaines, Ernest J., The autobiography of miss Jane Pittman, New York, Bantam, 1981
• Franklin, Benjamin, The private life of the late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. ...: Originally written by himself, and now translated from the French. To which are added, some account of his public life, a variety of anecdotes ... by M. M. Brissot, Condorcet, Rochefoucault, Le Roy, &c.&c. and the eulogium of M. Fauchet, ..., London, printed for J. Parsons, 1793
• Hemingway, Ernest, In our time: stories., New York, Scribner, 1958
• Hoffman, Eva, Lost in translation: a life in a new language, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books, 1990
• Johnson, James Weldon, The autobiography of an ex-colored man, London, X Press, 1995
• Kincaid, Jamaica, Lucy., 1. ed., New York, Farrar, 1990
• Kingston, Maxine Hong, The woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts., London, Lane, 1977
• Mailer, Norman, The armies of the night, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, 1968, pr. 1971
• Mailer, Norman, Advertisements for myself, New York, Putnam, 1959
• Plath, Sylvia, The bell jar, London, Faber and Faber, 2005
• Rich, Adrienne, Dikter i urval
• Roth, Henry, Call it sleep., New York, Avon, 1964
• Rowlandson, Mary White, The narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Said, Edward W., Out of place: a memoir, [New ed.], London, Granta, 2000
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Storyteller, New York, Seaver Books, cop. 1981
• Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990
• Thoreau, Henry David; Cramer, Jeffrey S., Waldenb a fully annotated edition, New Haven, Yale University Press, c2004
• Twain, Mark; Frank, Elizabeth, Roughing it, New York, N.Y., Signet Classics, [2008]
• Whitman, Walt, Dikter i urval
• Wolff, Tobias, This boy's life, London, Picador, 1990

Selected literary criticism.

Main group 3

8-10 of the texts below will be selected by the teacher.

• Achebe, Chinua, Things fall apart, [New ed.], London, Penguin in association with Heinemann African Writers Series, 2001
• Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey: authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism, New York, W. W. Norton, c2004
• Empire writing: an anthology of colonial literature 1870-1918, Oxford, Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
• Carter, Angela, Wise children, [New ed.], London, Vintage, 1992
• Collins, Wilkie, The woman in white, London, Penguin, 1999
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of darkness: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, 4. ed., New York ;a London, W.W. Norton, 2006
• Dickens, Charles; Bradbury, Nicola., Bleak House, London, Penguin, 2003
• Dixon, Ella Hepworth.; Farmer, Steve, The story of a modern woman
• Gray, Alasdair., Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer, [Paperback ed.], London, Bloomsbury, c1992, 2002
• Shakespeare, William; Hibbard, G. R., Hamlet
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft; Hindle, Maurice, Frankenstein: or the modern Prometheus, Rev. ed., London, Penguin, 2003
• Waters, Sarah, Fingersmith, New York, Virago, 2003

Selected literary criticism.

Main group 4

• Greenbaum, Sidney; Quirk, Randolph, A student's grammar of the English language, London, Longman, 1990Compulsory*
• Aarts, Bas; Weiner, Edmund S. C.; Chalker, Sylvia, The Oxford dictionary of English grammar, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2014Compulsory*

• Chalker, Sylvia; Greenbaum, Sidney. Student's grammar of the English Language, A student's English grammar workbook: being a workbook for: A student's grammar of the English Language, by Sidney Greenbaum and Randolph Quirk., Harlow, Longman, 1992
• Crystal, David; Davy, Derek, Investigating English style., London, Longman, 1969, pr. 1980
• Haegeman Wekker, Liliane Herman Christiaan, A modern course in English syntax., London, Routledge, 1997
• Biber, Douglas, Longman grammar of spoken and written English., Harlow, Longman, 1999
• Svartvik, Jan; Sager, Olof, Engelsk universitetsgrammatik, 2. uppl., Stockholm, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996
• Tottie, Gunnel, An introduction to American English., Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
• Övergaard, Gerd; MacQueen, Donald S., Suite sixteen: 16 Swedish-English translation exercises, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1995
• Övergaard, Gerd, Triple A: English grammar exercises: intermediate and advanced levels, Lund, Studentlitteratur, 1997

Main group 5

• Baugh, Albert C.; Cable, Thomas, A history of the English language, 5th ed., London, Routledge, 2002Compulsory*

• Hughes, Arthur; Trudgill, Peter.; Watt, Dominic James Landon., English accents & dialects: an introduction to social and regional varieties of English in the British Isles, 5th ed., London, Hodder Education, 2012Compulsory*
• Kövecses, Zoltán, American English: an introduction., Peterborough, Ont., Broadview Press ; Letchworth, c2000Compulsory*
• Trudgill, Peter; Hannah, Jean, International English: a guide to varieties of Standard English, 3. ed., London, Edward Arnold, 1994Compulsory*

• Coates, Jennifer, Women, men and language: a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language, London, Longman, 2004
• Schneider, Edgar Werner, Postcolonial English: varieties around the world, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Tottie, Gunnel, An introduction to American English, Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishers, 2002

* Compulsory