ENGLISH 11: AMERICAN LITERATURE COURSE
Outline of Literary Periods
I.American Beginnings (1660-1800)
A. Puritans
1.William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation
2.Mary Rowlandson A Narrative of the Captivity
3.Anne Bradstreet Here Follow Some Verses...
4.Edward Taylor Huswifery
5.(Arthur Miller) (The Crucible)* (AR)
B. Rationalists
1.Ben Franklin Autobiography
2.Patrick Henry Speech to the Virginia Convention
II.American Romanticism (1800-1860)
A. Novelists
1.Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle
2.James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans*
B. Traditional Poets
1.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Cross of Snow
2.Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides
III.American Renaissance (1840-1860)
A. Dark Romanticism
1.Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher (AR)
2.Nathaniel Hawthorne The Minister's Black Veil
3.Herman Melville Moby Dick*
B. Transcendentalism (Romantic Idealism)
1.Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature/ Self-Relience
2.Henry David Thoreau Walden/ Resistance to Civil Gov't
C. New American Poets
1.Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing
2.Emily Dickinson If you were coming in the Fall
IV.American Realism (1850-1900)
A. Oppression
1.Frederick Douglass The Narrative of the Life of...
2.Chief Joseph I Will Fight No More Forever*
3.Kate Chopin A Pair of Silk Stockings
B. Regionalism
1.Mark Twain Life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Naturalism
1.Jack London To Build a Fire*
D. Heroism
1.Stephen Crane The Mystery of Heroism
The Red Badge of Courage* (AR)
2.Ambrose Bierce Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge*
V.American Modernism (1900-1950)
A. Heroism
1.Ernest Hemingway Soldier's Home (Memphis Belle)*
2.Randall Jarrell Death of the Ball Turrent Gunner
3.John Hershey A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima
B. Southern Gothic
1.Eudora Welty A Worn Path
2.Flannery O'Connor The Life You Save May Be Your Own
3.William Faulkner A Rose For Emily*
4.Katherine A. Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
C. The American Dream
1.Willa Cather A Wagner Matinee
2.Thomas Wolfe His Father's Earth
3.F. Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams/ The Great Gatsby*
4.James Thurber The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
5.John Steinbeck The Leader of the People
Of Mice and Men* (AR)
D. Modern Poets
1.Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay
2.Edwin A. Robinson Richard Cory / Miniver Cheevy
3.T. S. Eliot The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock
4.Edgar Lee Masters Spoon River Anthology
5.E.E. Cummings what if a much of a which of a wind
6.Carl Sandberg Chicago
E. Harlem Renaissance
1.Gwendolyn Brooks of DeWitt Williams on his way ...
2.Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road
3.Langston Hughes The Weary Blues / Harlem
4.Richard Wright Black Boy
5.Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun*
