Week 3 - 07/04/16 Colonialism 17/03/16 Week 2 Beginnings 10/03/16 Week 1

Title
The Origin of Stories

Date
n.d.; Rec. 1923

Journal of the First Voyage to America (extract)

Utopia (extract)

Author
Seneca Tribe, rec. by Arthur
Parker
Yuchi Tribe
Jane Green, rec. by Frances
Densmore
Holy-Face Bear, rec. by Frances
Densmore
Christopher Columbus
Thomas Moore

The Generall Historie of Virginia (extract)

A Modell of Christian Charity (extract)
The Author to Her Book
Narrative of Captivity (extract)

John Smith
John Winthrop
Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson

Nar. 1608 Pub. 1624

1630
1678
1682

On Being Brought from Africa to America

Phillis Wheatley

The Declaration of Independence

Common Sense (extract)
Letters from an American Farmer (extract)
The Autobiography (extract)
The Interesting Narrative (extract)
Proclamations and Letters
Rights of Woman

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
J. Hector St. John de Crvecoeur
Benjamin Franklin
Olaudah Equiano
Toussaint LOuverture
Anonymous

Writ. 1768; Pub.

1773
1776
1776
1782
1788
1789
1793, 96, 97
Fl. 1795

Creation of the Whites

Womans Divorce Dance Song
Song of Famine

n.d.; Pub. 1987

n.d.; Rec. 1926
n.d.; Rec. 1911
1493
1516

Week 5 Antebellum Enlightenment

14/04/16 Week 4& Independence

Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called

Africans
Nature (extract) Self Reliance
Declaration of Sentiments
Narrative
Resistance to the Civil Government
Uncle Toms Cabin (extract)
The Signifying Monkey

Lydia Maria Child

1833

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass
Henry David Thoreau
Harriet Beecher Stowe
African American Folklore Song

1836
1848
1845
1849
1852
n.d.

Rip Van Winkle

The Last of the Mohicans (extract)
Young Goodman Brown
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
[I Started Early Took my Dog]

Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson

Bartelby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville

1819
1826
1835
1841
Writ. 1846-86; Pub.
1891
1853

Modernity & The South Week 6

Romanticism
- 28/04/16
21/04/16

Song of Myself

Walt Whitman

1855-1892

Ode to the Confederate Dead

The Grave
Barn Burning
Southern Thought (extract)
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of an Hour

Allen Tate
Katherine Anne Porter
William Faulkner
George Fitzhugh
Mark Twain
Kate Chopin

1926
1935
1939
1857
1865
1894

The Gettysburg Address

A White Heron
The Yellow Wallpaper
The School Days of an Indian Girl (extract)
To Build a Fire
The Souls of Black Folk (extract)

Abraham Lincoln
Sarah Orne Jewett
Charlotte Perkins Gillman
Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)
Jack London
W.E.B. Du Bois

1863
1886
1892
1902
1902,1908
1903

Regionalism,
19/05/16
Realism
Week
& Naturalism
8
Week 7 - 12/05/16

The Jungle (extract)

In the Land of the Free
The Promised Land (extract)

Upton Sinclair
Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far)
Mary Antin

1906
1909
1912

Daisy Miller
Ohio (Sister Carrie extract)
In a Station of the Metro
The Red Wheelbarrow
The Making of Americans (extract)
Hills Like White Elephants
U.S.A (extract)

Henry James
Theodore Dreiser
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
John Dos Passos

1878
1900
1913
1923
1925
1927
1930-6

Harlem Renaissance Week 9 - 02/06/16

Modernism

The New Negro

I, Too
Blues Lyrics
Passing (extract)
The Grapes of Wrath (extract)

Alain Locke
Langston Hughes
Various
Nella Larsen
John Steinbeck

1925
1926
various
1929
1939

16/06/16 Week 11 From the Cold War to the Present 09/06/16 Week 10

Bright and Morning Star

Housewife
The Crucible (extract)
Howl
On the Road
Naked Lunch (extract)
We Real Cool
Daddy
I Have a Dream
For the Union Dead
Armies of the Night (extract)
Black People: This is Our Destiny

Richard Wright
Anne Sexton
Arthur Miller
Alan Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath
Martin Luther King
Robert Lowell
Norman Mailer
Amiri Baraka

1938
1950s
1953
1955 (pub. 1956)
1957
1959
1960
1962 (pub. 1965)
delivered 1963
1964
1968
1969

Lost in the Funhouse (extract)

At the End of the Mechanical Age
The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the
Masters House
Recitatif
Lullaby
Because My Father Always Said
Woman Hollering Creek
The Woman Warrior (extract)

John Barth
Donald Barthelme
Audre Lorde

1968
1976
1984

Toni Morrison
Leslie Marmon Silko
Sherman Alexie
Sandra Cisneros
Maxine Hong Kingston

1983
1981
1993
1991
1976

Canadian & Caribbean Literature Week 12 - 23/06/16

Postmodernism

The Sea is History

The Journals of Susanna Moodie
St Urbains Horseman (extract)
Inglan is a Bitch
Borders
Children of the Sea
The Bear Came Over the Mountain

Derek Walcott
Margaret Atwood
Mordecai Richler
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Thomas King
E. Danticat
Alice Munro

1930
1970
1971
1980
1993
1993
1999