Rethinking 19th Century American Literature

Main group 1

Main Reading

• Brown, Charles Brockden, "Arthur Mervyn, or, Memoirs of the year 1793: with related texts", 2008Compulsory*
• Sansay, Leonora; Drexler, Michael J., Secret history, or, The horrors of St. Domingo: and, Laura, Peterborough, Ont., Broadview, c2007Compulsory*
• Cooper, Last of the mohicans - the illustrated novel, Pegasus Books, 2018Compulsory*
• Whitman, Walt, Leaves of grass and other writings: authoritative texts, other poetry and prose, criticism, New York, Norton, 2001Compulsory*
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's cabin: authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism, Third edition, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018Compulsory*
• Twain, Mark; Berger, Sidney E., Pudd'nhead Wilson: and, Those extraordinary twins: authoritative texts, textual introduction, tables of variants, criticism, 2nd ed., New York, N.Y., W.W. Norton, c2005Compulsory*
• Dreiser, Theodore; Pizer, Donald., Sister Carrie: an authoritative text, backgrounds, and sources criticism, 3rd ed., New York, W.W. Norton, c2006Compulsory*

Examination Texts

• Wilson, Harriet E., Our nig: or, Sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there, Champaign, Ill., Project Gutenberg, [199-?]
• Child, Lydia Maria; Karcher, Carolyn L., Hobomok & Other Writings on Indians, Rutgers University Press

* Compulsory