American Literature – I, B.A English Literature, 2nd Year, 4th Semester, University of Madras, Syllabus with effect from 2020-2021

 University of Madras

Syllabus with effect from 2020-2021

BA English Literature

[2^nd Year, 4^th Semester]

American Literature – I

Syllabus

UNIT 1: Poetry

1.1 “Prologue” Anne Bradstreet

1.2 “Brahma” R. W. Emerson

1.3“The Broken Oar” Henry W Longfellow

1.4 “Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson

1.5 "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" Walt Whitman

1.6 “Sparrow” Paul Laurence Dunbar

1.7 “The Raggedy Man” James Whitcomb Riley

1.8 “The Anti-Suffragists” Charlotte Perkins Gilman

UNIT 2: Prose

2.1 “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” H.D. Thoreau

2.2 “The Philosophy of Composition” Edgar Allan Poe

2.3 “The American Scholar” R. W. Emerson

[Excerpt: Paragraph beginning ‘In this view of him as Man Thinking…’ upto the lines ending… ‘popular judgments and mode of action.–Education of the American writer by nature, books and action’]

2.4 “The Slaves' New Year's Day” Harriet Jacobs

UNIT 3: Drama

3.1 Trifles Susan Keating Glaspell

UNIT 4: Short Story

4.1 “The Murders at the Rue Morgue” Edgar Allen Poe

4.2 “Jim Baker’s Blue Jay’s Yarn” Mark Twain

4.3 “The Luck of Roaring Camp” Bret Harte

4.4 “Regret” Kate Chopin

UNIT 5: Fiction

5.1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

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