AMERICAN II READING LIST

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1 AMERICAN II READING LIST Please note that there are two lists below. The first is the full list with the core readings in bold; the second is the core list separated out. You are responsible for all core readings and may incorporate readings from the full list into your tailored list. I. PRIMARY TEXTS A. Realism & Naturalism Frances E. W. Harper. Iola Leroy; or Shadows Uplifted Rebecca Harding Davis. "Life in the Iron Mills" Mark Twain. "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Essays: "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses," "The United States of Lyncherdom" William Dean Howells. A Hazard of New Fortunes; "Criticism and Fiction" Henry Adams. The Education of Henry Adams Ambrose Bierce. "Chickamauga," "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" William James. Pragmatism (selections) Henry James. Daisy Miller: A Study; The Portrait of a Lady (1881 edition); The Turn of the Screw; The Ambassadors. Literary Criticism: Hawthorne; "The Art of Fiction"; and a selection of James's prefaces to his own works in the New York Edition Joel Chandler Harris. Selected "Uncle Remus" stories, "Free Joe and the Rest of the World." Essays: "The Negro as the South Sees Him" Sarah Orne Jewett. The Country of the Pointed Firs Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward Kate Chopin. The Awakening, "Desiree's Baby," "The Story of an Hour" Booker T. Washington. Up From Slavery Charles Waddell Chesnutt. The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales, ed. Richard Brodhead (Duke UP); "The Wife of his Youth"; "The Sheriff's Children"

2 Pauline Hopkins. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South Hamlin Garland. Main-Travelled Roads (selections) Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper"; "Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper" Abraham Cahan. The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth or Ethan Frome W.E.B. DuBois. The Souls of Black Folk (1903); "The Souls of White Folk" (1920) Edwin Arlington Robinson. Frank Norris. McTeague; selections from The Responsibilities of the Novelist Stephen Crane. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets; The Red Badge of Courage; "The Open Boat"; "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. Paul Laurence Dunbar. Selected poems, including "We Wear the Mask," "When Malindy Sings," "An Antebellum Sermon," "Frederick Douglass." Fiction: "Mr. Cornelius Johnson, Office Seeker" B. Modernism Willa Cather. My Ántonia or Death Comes for the Archbishop Mary Austin. The Land of Little Rain Gertrude Stein. Fiction: Three Lives. Experimental writing: Tender Buttons (selections). Autobiography and essays: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas; "Poetry and Grammar" Robert Frost. A Boy's Will (1913), North of Boston (1914), selected poems from the rest of his books. Letters on "the sound of sense" from , "Education By Poetry" (1931),"The Figure a Poem Makes" (1939), "`Letter' to The Amherst Student" (1935)

3 Sherwood Anderson. Winesburg, Ohio Jack London. The Call of the Wild Wallace Stevens. Harmonium; Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction; selected poems from the rest of his books. Prose: "The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words" Jesse Redmon Fauset. Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Anzia Yezierska. Bread Givers; "America and I" William Carlos Williams. Poetry: Paterson, selected poems; Spring and All; Prose: "Excerpts from a Critical Sketch: A Draft of XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound," "The Work of Gertrude Stein," "Marianne Moore," "A 1 Pound Stein," "Pound's Eleven New Cantos," "The Poem as Field of Action" Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt or Main Street Alain Locke. "The New Negro," found in The New Negro Anthology edited by Locke in This collection contains a number of significant Harlem Renaissance texts, including poetry by Hughes and Cullen and prose by Johnson, Toomer, and DuBois Ezra Pound. Lustra (selections), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, selected "Cantos," selected poems from his first few books. (Useful guides are Personae: The Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound and Selected Poems of Ezra Pound.) "A Retrospect," reviews of Frost's books A Boy's Will and North of Boston Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) Marianne Moore. Selected Poems T.S. Eliot. Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (in its entirety). The Waste Land and Other Poems, "The Metaphysical Poets," "Tradition and the Individual Talent," "Reflections on vers libre," "Ulysses, Order, and Myth," "Hamlet and His Problems" John Crowe Ransom. Eugene O'Neill. Long Day's Journey Into Night Claude McKay. Katherine Anne Porter.

4 Zora Neale Hurston. Their Eyes Were Watching God Nella Larsen. Passing Edna St. Vincent Millay. A Few Figs From Thistles Dorothy Parker (poetry and prose). e.e. cummings. Jean Toomer. Cane John Dos Passos. Manhattan Transfer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby William Faulkner. The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying Allen Tate. "Ode to the Confederate Dead" Hart Crane. The Bridge Ernest Hemingway. In Our Time; The Sun Also Rises Thomas Wolfe. Look Homeward, Angel Langston Hughes. Weary Blues; selected additional poems. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926) John Steinbeck. The Grapes of Wrath Darcy McNickle. The Surrounded Gwendolyn Bennet. Selected poems, including "Heritage" and "To Usward" Countee Cullen. Selected poems, including "Heritage." Preface to Caroling Dusk (a landmark 1926 volume of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by one of its central figures) Nathanael West. Day of the Locust Richard Wright. Native Son; Black Boy (American Hunger) (in the 1992 Library of America edition); "How Bigger Was Born" Carson McCullers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

5 II. SECONDARY SOURCES A. Reference Works: Elliot, Emory, ed., et al. Columbia Literary History of the United States Hutner, Gordon, ed. American Literature, American Culture. New York: Oxford UP, Contains a useful selection of the more significant critical statements on American literature from the past two centuries. Minter, David. A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996 Spiller, Robert, ed., et al. Literary History of the United States. 3rd ed B. Criticism: The following brief bibliographies are intended to suggest further avenues for research. Students are strongly encouraged also consult the Hutner collection noted above, as well as the Further Reading sections found in: Pizer, Donald, ed. The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature Kaplan, Amy, and Donald Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism Levenson, Michael H. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. New York, NY: Cambridge UP, 1999 Mizruchi, Susan. The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, Sorby, Angela. Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, Realism and Naturalism Brodhead, Richard. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth- Century America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993 Fisher, Philip K. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York: Oxford UP, 1985 Fleissner, Jennifer. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism

6 Kaplan, Amy. The Social Construction of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988 Quirk, Tom, and Gary Scharnhorst. eds. American Realism and the Canon. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994 Warren, Kenneth. Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993 Modernism Altieri, Charles. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1989 Baker, Houston A. Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 Clark, Suzanne. Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1991 Kenner, Hugh. The Pound Era. Berkeley: U of California P, 1973 Nelson, Cary. Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1989 North, Michael. The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature. NY: Oxford UP, 1994 Strychacz, Thomas. Modernism, Mass Culture, and Professionalism Core List: Primary Sources 1) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881 edition) 2) Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3) William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes 4) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" 5) Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 6) Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs 7) Kate Chopin, The Awakening 8) Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales 9) Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie 10) EdithWharton, The House of Mirth 11) Gertrude Stein, Three Lives 12) Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House 13) Robert Frost, North of Boston

7 14) Willa Cather, My Ántonia 15) Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs From Thistles 16) T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems 17) Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt 18) Wallace Stevens, Harmonium 19) Jean Toomer, Cane 20) William Carlos Williams, Spring and All 21) John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer 22) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 23) Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time 24) Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro Anthology 25) Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues 26) Ezra Pound, Personae 27) William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury 28) Nella Larsen, Passing 29) Marianne Moore, Selected Poems 30) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God 31) Richard Wright, Native Son 32) Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night Core List: Secondary Sources 1) Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (2003) 2) Suzanne Clark, Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word (1991) 3) Jennifer Fleissner, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (2004) 4) Amy Kaplan & Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (1993) 5) Susan Mizruchi, The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, (2008) 6) Cary Nelson, Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory, (1989) 7) Michael North, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (1998) 8) Angela Sorby, Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, (2005) 9) Thomas Strychacz, Modernism, Mass Culture, and Professionalism (1993) 10) Kenneth Warren, Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism (1993)