SYLLABUS - 10 CFU

Literary texts:
Henry James, “The Real Thing” (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)
Theodore Dreiser, “Old Rogaum and His Theresa” (1901)
Mark Twain, “The $30,000 Bequest” (1904)

Critical Bibliography:
- L.J. Budd, “The American Background”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism, ed. D. Pizer, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995, pp. 21-46.
- G. Monteiro, “Realization in Henry James’ ‘The Real Thing’”, American Literary Realism 36/1 (2003), pp. 40-50.
- J. Wolter, “‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’: The Ambivalence of Changing Discourses”, Amerikastudien / American Studies 54/2 (2009), pp. 195-210.
- K. Gandal, “Stephen Crane’s ‘Maggie’ and the Modern Soul”, ELH 60/3 (1993), pp. 759-785.
- A. Lawson, “Class Mimicry in Stephen Crane’s City”, American Literary History 16/4 (2004), pp. 596-618.
- T.K. Parmiter, “Taking the Waters: The Summer Place and Women’s Health in Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’”, American Literary Realism 39/1 (2006), pp. 1-19.
- J. Griffin, “‘Butcher Rogaum’s Door’: Dreiser’s Early Tale of New York”, American Literary Realism 17/1 (1984), pp. 24-31.
- J. Bird, “Realism and the Uses of Humor”, in The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism, ed. K. Newlin, Oxford Univ. Press, 2019, pp. 83-99.

SYLLABUS - 6 CFU

Literary texts:
Henry James, “The Real Thing” (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893)

Critical Bibliography:
- L.J. Budd, “The American Background”, in The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism, ed. D. Pizer, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995, pp. 21-46.
- G. Monteiro, “Realization in Henry James’ ‘The Real Thing’”, American Literary Realism 36/1 (2003), pp. 40-50.
- J. Wolter, “‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’: The Ambivalence of Changing Discourses”, Amerikastudien / American Studies 54/2 (2009), pp. 195-210.
- K. Gandal, “Stephen Crane’s ‘Maggie’ and the Modern Soul”, ELH 60/3 (1993), pp. 759-785.
- A. Lawson, “Class Mimicry in Stephen Crane’s City”, American Literary History 16/4 (2004), pp. 596-618.