19th Century Fiction
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Abraham Cahan, The Rise of David Levinsky
Charles Chesnutt, Anthologized Short Stories and The Marrow of Tradition
Lydia Maria Child, Anthologized Essays and Hobomok
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Red Badge of Courage
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter and The Blithehdale Romance
William Dean Howells, A Traveler from Altruria
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Edgar Allan Poe, Anthologized Short Stories and “Philosophy of Composition”
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
19th Century Non-Fiction Prose
Henry Adams, Anthologized Works
William Apess, Anthologized Works
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” “Self-Reliance,” and “Experience”
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century
William Dean Howells, “I Talk of Dreams” and “War Stops Literature”
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Henry David Thoreau, Walden and”Civil Disobedience”
Zitkála-Šá, Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians
19th Century Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
19th Century Criticism
Miller, Errand into the Wilderness (1956)
Marx, The Machine in the Garden (1964)
Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (1978)
Douglas, The Feminization of American Culture (1978)
Davidson, Revolution and the Word (1986)
Tompkins, Sensational Designs (1986)
Gilmore, American Romanticism and the Marketplace (1988)
Brown, Domestic Individualism (1990)
Kaplan, The Social Construction of American Realism (1992)
Morrison, Playing in the Dark (1992)
Sundquist, To Wake the Nations (1993)
Bercovitch, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, vols. 1-4 (1994)
20th Century Fiction and Prose
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son
Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
William Faulkner, Go Down, Moses
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man is Hard to find” and “Good Country People”
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Gertrude Stein, Anthologized Works
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Jean Toomer, Cane
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Richard Wright, Native Son and Anthologized Works
E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
20th Century Poetry
John Ashbery
Amiri Baraka
Elizabeth Bishop
Gwendolyn Brooks
Hart Crane
T.S. Eliot
Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Joy Harjo
Robert Hayden
Susan Howe
Langston Hughes
Robert Lowell
Marianne Moore
Charles Olson
Sylvia Plath
Ezra Pound
Adrienne Rich
Wallace Stevens
20th Century Criticism
Kazin, On Native Grounds (1942)
Kenner, A Homemade World (1975)
Perloff, Dance of the Intellect (1981)
Baker, Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (1987)
Gelpi, A Coherent Splendor (1987)
Gilbert and Gubar, No Man’s Land (1987)
McHale, Postmodernist Fiction (1987)
Nelson, Repression and Recovery (1989)
Du Plessis, The Pink Guitar (1990)
North, The Dialect of Modernism (1994)
Michaels, Our America (1995)
Bercovitch, ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, vols 5-8 (1994)