Rethinking 19th Century American Literature
7.5 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN520
A revised version of the reading list is available.
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
- Howells, William Dean; Nordloh, David J., A hazard of new fortunes, Modern Library pbk. ed., New York, Modern Library, 2002Compulsory
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