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Main Reading

• Brown, Charles Brockden; Shapiro, Stephen; Barnard, Philip, Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness: With Related Texts, Hackett Publishing, 2009Compulsory*
• Chopin, Kate; Ciocia, Stefania, The awakening and selected stories, Ware, Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2015Compulsory*
• Grandin, Greg, The empire of necessity: slavery, freedom, and deception in the New World, First Picador edition, New York, Picador, [2015]Compulsory*
• Ridge, John Rollin, The life and adventures of Joaquín Murieta: the celebrated California bandit, London, Penguin Classics, 2018Compulsory*
• Sedgwick, Catharine Maria; Karcher, Carolyn L., Hope Leslie, or, Early times in the Massachusetts, New York, Penguin Books, 1998Compulsory*
• Twain, Mark; Nafisi, Azar; Rasmussen, R. Kent, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, New York, Penguin Books, 2014Compulsory*

Online Material:

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance" and "Experience";

Frances E.W. Harper, Poems on Miscellaneous Aspects;

Gene Andrew Jarret, ed. The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature (selected texts by Charles W. Chesnutt, Frederick Douglass, and Pauline Hopkins);

Herman Melville," Benito Cereno";

Henry David Thoreau, "Walking";

Ida B. Wells, "Mob Rule in New Orleans".

* Compulsory