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1 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO ENGLISH DEPARTMENT PHD COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION READING LIST NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE The following is a reading list for doctoral candidates to use as a guide in preparing for the comprehensive examination in nineteenth-century American literary studies. The list is suggestive rather than definitive. Students are expected to be thoroughly familiar with the major works and writers and to have a solid understanding of the way these works contribute to the development of American literary history. The list, of course, should be supplemented by works aligned with the major emphasis of the students research interests. Poetry Bryant, William Cullen. Thanotopsis Yellow Violet To a Waterfowl A Forest Hymn Dickinson, Emily. Selections from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. Thomas Johnson). Dunbar, Paul Laurence. Lyrics of Lowly Life Forten, Sarah. An Appeal to Women The Slave Girl s Farewell The Grave of the Slave Lazarus, Emma. The New Colossus Lowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers Poe, Edgar Allan. Israfel The Sleeper Sonnet: To Silence The Raven Ulalume Annabel Lee Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass (9th edition) (including 1855 Preface) Whittier, John Greenleaf. Snow-Bound Prose Rowson, Susanna. Charlotte Temple Foster, Hannah Webster. The Coquette

2 Brown, Charles Brockden. Edgar Huntly [Anonymous]. Xicoténcatl Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book Poe, Edgar Allen. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym The Poetic Principle selected short stories Child, Lydia Maria. Hobomok Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature Self-Reliance Divinity School Address The American Scholar The Poet Experience Sedgwick, Catherine Maria. Hope Leslie Thoreau, Henry David. Walden Resistance to Civil Government Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, As Written by Himself The Heroic Slave Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Warner, Susan. The Wide, Wide World Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter The House of Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance selected short stories Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall Brown, William Wells. Clotel Ridge, John Rollin. 2

3 The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom s Cabin Wilson, Harriet. Our Nig Melville, Herman. Moby Dick Billy Budd Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno Cummins, Maria Susanna. The Lamplighter Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women Work Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron Mills Delany, Martin. Blake, or The Huts of America Alger, Horatio. Ragged Dick Chesnutt, Charles W. The Marrow of Tradition The Conjure Woman Twain, Mark. Huckleberry Finn Pudd nhead Wilson Crane, Stephen. Maggie The Red Badge of Courage Martí, José. Selected Writings (Penguin Classics edition, 2002): Letters from New York (pp ) Political Correspondences (pp ) Poetry: Simple Verses (pp ) Letters from New York (pp ) from Patria (pp ) Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona Ruiz de Burton, Maria Amparo. Who Would have Thought It? The Squatter and the Don Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward Norris, Frank. 3

4 McTeague The Octopus Winnemucca, Sarah. Life among the Piutes Harper, Francis. Iola Leroy Howells, William Dean. A Hazard of New Fortunes The Rise of Silas Lapham Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. The Yellow Wall-paper Freeman, Mary Wilkins. A New England Nun and Other Stories James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady The Ambassadors The Turn of the Screw Daisy Miller Wister, Owen. The Virginian Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs Frederic, Harold. The Damnation of Theron Ware Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie Chopin, Kate. The Awakening Hopkins, Pauline. Contending Forces Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery Criticism Berlant, Lauren. The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture Brickhouse, Anna. Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Brodhead, Richard. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America Brooks, Daphne. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, Brown, Gillian. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America Chapman, Mary and Glenn Hendler, eds. Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture

5 Gates Jr., Henry Louis. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism Gura, Philip F. American Transcendentalism: A History Jehlen, Myra. American Incarnation: The Individual, the Nation, and the Continent Levine, Robert S. Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism McGill, Meredith. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting Loeffelholz, Mary. From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club Merish, Lori. Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Reising, Russell. Loose Ends: Closure and Crisis in the American Social Text Reynolds, David. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville Silva-Gruesz, Kirsten. Ambassadors of Culture Streeby, Shelley. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture Sundquist, Eric. Empire and Slavery in American Literature, Tompkins, Jane. Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, Wolosky, Shira. Poetry and Public Discourse: American Poetry Last Updated December

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