American Literature Semester 1 Reading List

A complete list of flashcards correlating American literature authors with their specific works as mentioned in the lecture notes.

John Winthrop

A Modell of Christian Charity

Samuel Danforth

New England’s Errand into the Wilderness

Michael Wigglesworth

“Day of Doom”

Anne Bradstreet

„To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Edward Taylor

“I am the Living Bread: Meditation 8” and “Meditation 26”

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and Personal Narrative

Benjamin Franklin

Poor Richard’s Almanack and Autobiography

Joel Barlow

“The Columbiad” and “The Hasty-Pudding”

Philip Freneau

"The House of Night"

Washington Irving

A History of New-York, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and "Rip Van Winkle”

James Fenimore Cooper

The Leatherstocking Tales (all 5 of them)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-Reliance”, “Divinity School Address”, and “The Over-Soul”

Henry David Thoreau

“Resistance to Civil Government” or “Civil Disobedience”, and Walden

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

William Cullen Bryant

“Thanatopsis”

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass, “Song of Myself”, and “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”

Emily Dickinson

“A narrow Fellow in the Grass”

Edgar Allan Poe

„Philosophy of Composition”, „The Raven”, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and “The Purloined Letter”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

„Young Goodman Brown”, „The Minister’s Black Veil”, The Scarlet Letter, and The House of the Seven Gables

Herman Melville

Typee, Moby-Dick, „Billy Budd, Sailor”, and „Bartleby, the Scrivener”

William Dean Howells

The Rise of Silas Lapham

Mark Twain

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, Innocents Abroad, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Henry James

Portrait of a Lady

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The Yellow Wallpaper”

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

Willa Cather

My Antonia

Sarah Orne Jewett

“The White Heron”

Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage