Subject American Literature

Course Title: American Literature

Course Code: ENG-606

Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents:

Essays and Short Stories

• Thomas Paine (1737–1809): Excerpts from Common Sense
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826): Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence as Adopted by Congress (July 4, 1776)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882): Excerpts from Nature; “Self-Reliance”
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892): Excerpts from Preface to Leaves of Grass
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864): “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”; “Young Goodman Brown”
• Herman Melville (1819–1891): “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
• Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849): “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Poetry

• Emily Dickinson (1830–1886):
  • “Success is counted sweetest”
  • “Because I could not stop for Death”
  • “This is my letter to the world”
  • “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972):
  • “Mr. Housman’s Message”
  • “Portrait D’une Femme”
  • “In a Station of the Metro”
  • “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
• T.S. Eliot (1888–1965): “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; Excerpts from The Waste Land
• Robert Frost (1874–1963):
  • “Mending Wall”
  • “The Road Not Taken”
  • “Birches”
  • “Fire and Ice”
  • “After Apple-Picking”
  • “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
• E.E. Cummings (1894–1962):
  • “O sweet spontaneous”
  • “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”
  • “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
• Hart Crane (1899–1932): From The Bridge (“To Brooklyn Bridge”)

Novels

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896): Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Frederick Douglass (1817–1895): Excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940): The Great Gatsby
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961): A Farewell to Arms
• William Faulkner (1897–1962): The Sound and the Fury

Plays

• Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953): Long Day’s Journey into Night
• Arthur Miller (1915–2005): Death of a Salesman; The Crucible

Recommended Books:

• Gustafson, S. M., & Levine, R. S. (2017). The Norton Anthology of American Literature.
• Bennett, H. G. (1953). American Literature. American Book Company.