Part I The Origin and Development of American Literature Beginnings to 1860
Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790
The Autobiography excerpt
Unit 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803–1882
The American Scholar excerpt
Unit 3 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804–1864
Young Goodman Brown
Unit 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849
The Tell-Tale Heart
Unit 5 Henry David Thoreau 1817–1862
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Unit 6 Frederick Douglass 1818–1895
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass excerpt
Unit 7 Herman Melville 1819–1891
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Unit 8 19th Century American Poets
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807–1882 A Psalm of Life
Edgar Allan Poe 1809–1849 Annabel Lee
Walt Whitman 1819–1892 Song of Myself excerpt
Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Part II American Literature Between the Civil War and the FirstWorld War1860–1914
Unit 9 Mark Twain 1835–1910
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Unit 10 Henry James 1843–1916
The Real Thing
Unit 11 Kate Chopin 1851–1904
A Respectable Woman
Unit 12 Theodore Dreiser 1871–1945
Sister Carrie excerpt
Unit 13 Upton Sinclair 1878–1968
The Jungle excerpt
Part III American Literature Between the Two World Wars 1914–1945
Unit 14 Eugene O’Neill 1888–1953
Desire Under the Elms excerpt
Unit 15 Zora Neale Hurston 1891–1960
Sweat
Unit 16 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896–1940
The Great Gatsby excerpt
Unit 17 William Faulkner 1897–1962
A Rose for Emily
Unit 18 Ernest Hemingway 1899–1961
Soldier’s Home
Unit 19 John Steinbeck 1902–1968
The Grapes of Wrath excerpt
Unit 20 20th Century American Poets I
Robert Frost 1874–1963 The Road Not Taken
Carl Sandburg 1878–1967 Chicago
Wallace Stevens 1879–1955
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