Baym, Nina, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, et al. eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 7th ed. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. ISBN: 9780393930573.
[Morrison] = Morrison, Toni. Jazz. Plume, 1993. ISBN: 9780452269651.
All page numbers are in the Norton Anthology, unless otherwise noted. Students are expected to read historical and biographical head-notes for readings in the Norton Anthology.
| SES # | TOPICS | |
|---|---|---|
| Origins | ||
| 2 |
William Bradford pp. 57-75. Mary Rowlandson pp. 117-34. (read text at Annotation Studio) | |
| 3 |
Benjamin Franklin pp. 230-46, 276-92. Washington Irving pp. 453-66. | |
| Declarations of Independence | ||
| 6 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson pp. 488-519. Henry David Thoreau pp. 844-86. | |
| 7 | Henry David Thoreau pp. 886-920. | |
| 9 | Nathaniel Hawthorne pp. 589-643. | |
| 10 | Frederick Douglass pp. 920-88. | |
| 11 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe pp. 764-99. Harriet Jacobs pp. 804-25. | |
| 12 | Herman Melville pp. 1118-74. | |
| 14 | Walt Whitman pp. 991-1088, selections. | |
| 15 | Emily Dickinson pp. 1197-1225, selections. | |
| Realism and Satire | ||
| 16 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1270-1343. | |
| 17 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1343-1410. | |
| 18 | Samuel Clemens pp. 1410-63. | |
| 19 |
Sarah Orne Jewett pp. 1590-98. Kate Chopin pp. 1602-19. Charlotte Perkins Gilman pp. 1695-1719. | |
| 20 |
Henry James pp. 1532-79. Edith Wharton pp. 1695-1719. | |
| Vision and Revision | ||
| 22 |
Claude McKay pp. 2044-47. Zora Neale Hurston pp. 2057-69. Langston Hughes pp. 2263-71. Countee Cullen pp. 2283-87. Richard Wright pp. 2287-97. | |
| 23 | [Morrison] pp. 4–87. | |
| 24 | [Morrison] pp. 89–162. | |
| 25 | [Morrison] pp. 165–229. | |