The 9 credit course includes the following texts and topics:

The Puritan Age
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
-Mary Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);
-Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World” (1692);

The Enlightenment in the United States
-The Declaration of Independence (1776);
- Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eight Edition.

The Nineteenth Century: Early Republic, Antebellum America, and American Renaissance
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839);
-Ralph W. Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass”, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1855);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—”.

Critical Bibliography:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferably the 8th Shorter Edition, or any other edition available in the library):
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1700: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1700-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHORS IN THE SYLLABUS

-A Companion to the American Short Story, eds. A. Bendixen and J. Nagel, Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010:
B. F. Fisher, “Poe and the American Short Story”, pp. 20-34;
S. T. Ryan, “A Guide to Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’”, pp. 35-49;
A. Bendixen, “Towards History and Beyond: Hawthorne and the American Short Story”, pp. 50-67;
-Columbia Literary History of the United States, ed. by E. Elliott, Columbia University Press, 1988:
S. Bercovitch, “The Puritan Vision of the New World”, pp. 33-44;
K. Silverman, “From Cotton Mather to Benjamin Franklin”, pp. 101-112;
- Edgar Allan Poe in Context, ed. K.J. Hayes, Cambridge University Press, 2013:
A. Brown, “The Gothic Movement”, pp. 241-250; Benjamin Fisher, "Poe and the American Short Story", in A companion to the American Short Story, pp. 20-34;
- Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (1845), “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846 available online)

-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” (1845), “The Philosophy of Composition” (1846);

"Fredrick Douglass' Search for Identity", https://www.angelfire.com/journal/fsulimelight/frederick.html

The 6 credit course includes the following texts and topics:

The Puritan Age
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
-Mary Rowlandson, “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682)
-Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World” (1692);

The Enlightenment in the United States
-The Declaration of Independence (1776);
- Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eight Edition.

The Nineteenth Century: Early Republic, Antebellum America, and American Renaissance
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839);
-Ralph W. Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown” (1835);
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass”, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1855);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—”.

Critical Bibliography:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferably the 8th Shorter Edition, or any other edition available in the library):
AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1700: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1700-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHORS IN THE SYLLABUS