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Primary texts

Unless otherwise indicated, please use the editions listed.

• Brown, Charles Brockden, "Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793: with related texts", 2008Compulsory* (Hackett Publishing Co, Inc)
• Cooper, James Fenimore, The last of the Mohicans, New York, Signet, 2014Compulsory*
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The scarlet letter., Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1994Compulsory*
• Melville, Herman, Moby-Dick: an authoritative text, reviews and letters by Melville, analogues and sources, criticism, 2. ed., New York, Norton, 2002Compulsory*
• Paine, Thomas, Common sense, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1976Compulsory* (Any edition.)
• Rowson; Davidson, Cathy N., Charlotte Temple (Early American women writers), Oxford University Press, 1986Compulsory*
• Sedgwick, Catharine Maria; Karcher, Carolyn L., Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts, New York, Penguin Books, 1998Compulsory*
• Whitman, Walt; Bloom, Harold, Leaves of grass: the first (1855) edition, 150th anniversary ed., New York, Penguin Books, c2005Compulsory*

Critical Material

Excerpts from the following texts:

• Anderson, Benedict, Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, Rev. and extended ed., London, Verso, 1991
• Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands: the new mestiza = La frontera, 2. ed., San Francisco, Aunt Lute Books, cop. 1999
• Arac, Jonathan, The emergence of American literary narrative, 1820-1860, 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed., Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2005
• Calhoun, Craig J., Nations matter: culture, history, and the cosmopolitan dream, London, Routledge, 2007
• Jehlen, Myra, American incarnation: the individual, the nation, and the continent, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1986
• Lee, A. Robert, Multicultural American literature: comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American fictions, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2003
• Looby, Christopher, Voicing America: language, literary form, and the origins of the United States, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996
• Michaels, Walter Benn, Our America: nativism, modernism, and pluralism, Durham, Duke Univ. Press, 1995
• Nadel, Alan, Containment culture: American narratives, postmodernism, and the atomic age, Durham, N.C., Duke Univ. Press, cop. 1995
• Saldívar, José David, Trans-Americanity: subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico, Durham, Duke University Press, 2012
• Warner, Michael, The letters of the republic: publication and the public sphere in eighteenth-century America, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1990
• Douglas, Christopher, Reciting America: culture and cliché in contemporary U.S. fiction, Urbana, University of Illinois Press, c2001

* Compulsory