Reg No: HS 2016/69

 

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Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences
English

Course Reading

American Literature, 1620-1919

Valid from spring semester 2017

 

Course Code: ENADL5
Course Title: American Literature, 1620-1919
Amerikansk litteratur, 1620-1919
Credits: 7.5
Degree Level: Master


A selection of articles available at the course start, about 200 pages.

All texts below except Gray's literary history book are available electronically on Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ Many of the shorter texts are also in the Norton Anthology of American Literature.

Bradstreet, A. Selection of poetry. Pages: 10.

Brockden Brown, C. Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker. Any edition. Pages: 248.

Douglass, F. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Any edition. Pages: 107.

Edwards, J. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. Pages: 12.

Emerson, R. W. "Nature", "The Poet". Pages: 40.

Fuller, M. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Any edition. Pages: 99.

Gray, R. A Brief History of American Literature. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 1-158. ISSN 1405192305. Pages: 158.

Harding Davis, R. “Life in the Iron-Mills”. Pages: 26.

Hawthorne, N. "Wakefield". Pages: 10.

Hawthorne, N. “Young Goodman Brown”. Pages: 10.

Jacobs, H. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Any edition. Pages: 250.

James, H. “The Turn of the Screw”. Any edition. Pages: 96.

Melville, H. “Benito Cereno”. Pages: 56.

Perkins Gilman, C. “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Pages: 11.

Poe, E. A. “The Premature Burial” och “ The Imp of the Perverse”. Pages: 16.

Rowlandson, M. “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”. Any edition. Pages: 52.

Stoddard, E. The Morgesons. Any edition. Pages: 250.

Stowe, H. B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Any edition. Pages: 400.

Whitman, W. “Song of Myself”. Pages: 44.


 

Approved by the Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences, 7 December 2016