Texts:

• Baym, Nina and others.   The Norton Anthology of American Literature.   Shorter 7^th Edition  (Belly-Banded Two-Volume Set)  --  W.W.Norton  
• Melville, Herman.  The Confidence Man.  2nd edition, edited by Hershel Parker and Mark Niemeyer -- W.W. Norton (Critical Edition)
• Plumly, Stanley.  Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2000  --  Ecco  

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Wk 1:  1)  Introduction to American Culture and American Literature:  Theories, Themes, and Myths
           2)  Native Americans and European Immigrants
Wednesday, January 13

Required Readings:  

• Beginnings to 1700:  Introduction and Timeline

• WILLIAM BRADFORD
• from Of Plymouth Plantation
• Book I
• Chapter IX. Of Their Voyage and How They Passed the Sea;and of Their Safe Arrival at Cape Cod
• Chapter X. Showing How They Sought Out a Place of Habitation; and What Befell Them Thereabout

• JOHN WINTHROP 
• from A Model of Christian Charity

• ANNE BRADSTREET 
• The Prologue
• Contemplations
• The Author to Her Book
• Before the Birth of One of Her Children
• To My Dear and Loving Husband

• MARY ROWLANDSON 
• from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
• The First Remove
• The Second Remove
• The Third Remove
• The Twelfth Remove
• The Twentieth Remove

Background Readings:

• West to the Garden:  The New World as Symbol and Myth  --  Melissa Kennedy and John Barans, U. of Virginia (American Studies Program)
• A Brief History of the European Myth of the Garden
• America as the Garden during the Renaissance
• The Political Garden 
• Conclusion
• teaching the Literature of Discovery and Exploration  -- Juan Bruce-Novoa and Carla Mulford, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• (early American) Travel Narratives  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.    
• American Puritanism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Calvinism in New England Puritan Culture  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• Covenant Theology  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• The Arminian Controversy  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• Forms of Puritan Rhetoric: The Jeremiad and the Conversion Narrative  -- Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• Puritan Meditation Tradition  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• Sermon Structure:  A Brief Outline Guide  --   Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• Typology  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
  
• Early American Captivity Narratives --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• The Salem Witch Trials  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• The Five Points of Calvinism  (from the Synod of Dort, 1619)  --  David J. Voelker,  U. of Wisconsin--Green Bay    (pdf file)  
  
• The American Sense of Puritan  --  Scott Atkins, U. of Virginia
• timeline of literary activities in Colonial America  --  American Passages:  A Literary Survey
• Fire and Ice:  Puritan and Reformed Writings
• Puritan History:  Past, Present, and Future  --  Gavin Finley   [a view from the perspective of a contemporary American Evangelical]
• Early American and Colonial Literature to 1700  --   James Madison U., Virginia
• Colonial and Revolutionary Literature  --  W. P. Trent and others,  Vol 15 of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature  (1907-1921)
• Henry J. Sage
• Colonial Home
• Overview
• Colonial Introduction
• Colonization
• Native American Cultures
• Virginia: The Jamestown Disaster
• The Protestant Reformation in Germany & England

• Christopher Columbus  --  James Sullivan, Claremont Graduate U. 
• Christopher Columbus  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature 
• Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca  --  Juan Bruce-Novoa, U. of California, Irvine
• Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• Thomas Harriot  --  Thomas Scanlon, Ohio U.
• Thomas Harriot  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature  
• John Smith  --  Wikipedia
• John Smith  --  Amy Winans, Susquehanna U.  
• John Smith  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
  
• John Smith  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teaching John Smith  --  Amy Winans, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• William Bradford --  Wikipedia
• William Bradford  --  Dorothy Honiss Kelso, Pilgrim Hall Museum
• William Bradford  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teaching William Bradford  --  Phillip Gould, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• William Bradford  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• John Winthrop -- Wikipedia
• John Winthrop  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• John Winthrop  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teching John Winthrop  --  Nicholas D. Rombes, Jr., Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• John Winthrop  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Anne Bradstreet --  Pattie Cowell, Colorado State U.  
• Anne Bradstreet  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Anne Bradstreet  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Anne Bradstreet  -- Pattie Cowell, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Anne Bradstreet  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Mary White Rowlandson  --  Sharon M. Harris, Texas Christian U.  
• Mary Rowlandson  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Mary Rowlandson  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• commentary on Mary Rowlandson  --  American Passages:  A Literary Survey
• Early American Captivity Narratives  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Captivity Narratives  --  Lorrayne Carroll, U. of Southern Maine
• teaching Mary White Rowlandson  --  Paula Uruburu,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Edward Taylor  --  Wikipedia
• Edward Taylor -- Karen E. Rowe, U. of California at Los Angeles
• Edward Taylor --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Edward Taylor  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• notes on Edward Taylor  --  Donna M. Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• Puritan Meditation Tradition  --  Donna M. Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• teaching Edward Taylor  -- Karen E. Rowe, U. of California at Los Angeles
• Cotton Mather -- Wikipedia
• Cotton Mather  --  Kenneth Alan Hovey, U. of Texas at San Antonio and Gregory S. Jackson, U. of Arizona
• teaching Cotton Mather  --  Kenneth Alan Hovey and Joseph Fichtelberg,  Heath Anthology of American Literature

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Wk 2:  From the Age of Faith to the Age of Reason and Revolution
Wednesday, January 20

• Jonathan Edwards
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• Benjamin Franklin
• The Way to Wealth
• from The Autobiography
  
  • [Part Two]
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  
  • Letters from an American Farmer
  • From Letter III. What Is an American
• Thomas Jefferson
• from The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson
• from The Declaration of Independence
• an annotated Declaration of Independence @ Wikipedia
• Phillis Wheatley
• On Being Brought from Africa to America
• To the University of Cambridge, in New England
• On the Death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, 1770

Background Readings:

• The European Enlightenment  --  Richard Hooker,  Washington State U. 
• The Enlightenment  --  Paul Brians, Washington State U. 
• NEOCLASSICAL and ROMANTIC  Literature: Some General Distinctions  --  John Lye, Brock U.  
• Colonial Period,  1700-1800:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• American Revolution  --  Wikipedia
  
• The American Revolution.com
• The American Revolution.org
• Timeline of the American Revolution  --  PBS
• Time of US Revolutionary History  (1760-1789)  --  Wikipedia
  
• A Guide to the American Revolution  --  Kenneth Drexler,  Library of Congress
• The Declaration of Independence:  "An Expression of the American Mind"  --  National Endowment of the Humanities
• Deism  --  Wikipedia
• Deism  --  Terry Matthews,  Wake Forest U.   [with an emphasis on Deism in the South]
• Early Native American Literature: Brief Outline Guide  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 

• Sarah Kemble Knight  --  Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, U. of Arkansas, Little-Rock
• Sarah Kemble Knight  --  American Pasages, PBS
  
• teaching Sarah Kemble Knight  -- Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Jonathan Edwards  --  Wikipedia
• Jonathan Edwards  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Jonathan Edwards  --  Carol M. Bensick, U. of California at Riverside and Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate U. 
• teaching Jonathan Edwards  -- Carol M. Bensick, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Jonathan Edwards --  William Wainwright, U. of Wisconsin, Madison  (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  
  
• Jonathan Edwards  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Benjamin Franklin  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Benjamin Franklin  --  David M. Larson, Cleveland State U.  
• Benjamin Franklin  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• essay on and annotated copy of "The Way to Wealth"  -- students at University of South Florida 
• teaching Benjamin Franklin  --  David M. Larson, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  --  Doreen Alvarez Saar, Drexel U. 
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teaching J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur  --  Doreen Alvarez Saar, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Thomas Jefferson  --  Wikipedia
• Thomas Jefferson  -- Frank Shuffelton, U. of Rochester  and  Andrew Wiget, U. of New Mexico
• Thomas Jefferson page  --  The White House
• teaching Thomas Jefferson  --  Frank Shuffelton, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Olaudah Equiano  --  Wikipedia
• Olaudah Equiano  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Olaudah Equiano  --  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Olaudah Equiano  -- Angelo Costanzo, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African  -- Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, Surrey, United Kingdom
• Olaudah Equiano: A Critical Biography  -- Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, Surrey, United Kingdom 
• "Autobiography and Memory: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African"  --  Paul E. Lovejoy, York U., Canada  
• Mercy Otis Warren  --  Wikipedia
• Mercy Otis Warren  --  Ivy Schweitzer, Darkmouth College
• Mercy Otis Warren  --  from Doris Weatherford, American Women's History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, Issues, and Events
• "The Righteous Revolution of Mercy Otis Warren"  --  Ray Raphael,  History Now:  American History Online
  
• Mercy Otis Warren  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Philip Freneau  --  Wikipedia
• Philip Freneau  --  David S. Shields, The Citadel
  
• Philip Freneau  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.  
• teaching Philip Freneau  --  David S. Shields, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Philip Freneau  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Phillis Wheatley  --  Wikipedia
• Phillis Wheatley  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Phillis Wheatley  --  William H. Robinson, Rhode Island College and Phillip M. Richards, Colgate U.  
• Phillis Wheatley  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Phillis Wheatley  --  William H. Robinson, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  

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Wk 3:   American Romanticism:  Transcendentalism and The Gothic
Wednesday, January 27

• Washington Irving
• Rip Van Winkle
• James Fenimore Cooper
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Vol. 1, Chapter III  [Natty Bumpo and Chingachgook:  Stories of the Father]
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux
• Young Goodman Brown
  
• The Birthmark
  
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Raven
• Annabel Lee
• Ligeia
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Nature
• Henry David Thoreau  
• from Walden, or Life in the Woods
• Economy
• Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Background Readings:  

• Puritanism  --  Mason I. Lowance, Jr., U. of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Calvinism  --  Merit Kaschig, College of William and Mary 
• Autobiography [in 19th c. American literature]  --  William Pannapacker, Hope College
  
• [American]  Literary Nationalism  --  Christopher Gair, U. of Glasgow 
• [early 19th c. American] Literary Criticism  --  James Emmett Ryan, Auburn U.  
• Early Nineteenth Century and Romanticism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Knickerbocker Writers  --  Kent P. Ljungquist,  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• NEOCLASSICAL and ROMANTIC  Literature: Some General Distinctions  --  John Lye, Brock U.
• Romanticism  --  Paul Brians, Washington State U.
  
• Romanticism  --  David M. Robinson, Oregon State U.  
  
• Transcendentalism  --  David M. Robinson, Oregon State U.  
  
• American Transcendentalism:  A Brief Introduction  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• American Transcendentalism  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.  
  
• Transcendentalism  --  Wikipedia
• Transcendentalism  --  Russell Goodman, U. of New Mexico  (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
  
• Transcendentalists
  
• American Transcendentalism Web  --  Anne Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth U. 
• Concord Chronology  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
  
• Dark Romanticism:  The Ultimate Contradiction
• Gothic Fiction  --  Ellen Weinauer,  U. of Southern Mississippi
• Gothic, Novel, and Romance: Brief Definitions  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• The Romance  --  Michael J. Davey,  Valdosta State U. 
• Romance as a Genre  --  John Lye, Brock U.
  
• Sensational Fiction  --  David S. Reynolds,  City University of New York
• Antebellum Era in (Southern) Literature  --  Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris,  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

• Washington Irving  -- Wikipedia 
• Washington Irving  --  William Hedges, Goucher College
• Washington Irving  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• teaching Washington Irving  --  William Hedges,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Rip Van Winkle  --  Steven Blakemore, Florida Atlantic U.  
• teaching Washington Irving  --  William Hedges, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• James Fenimore Cooper  --  Wikipedia
• James Fenimore Cooper  --  H. Daniel Peck, Vassar College
• James Fenimore Cooper  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.  
  
• Leatherstocking Tales  --  Kay Seymour House
• teaching James Fennimore Cooper  --  Geoffrey Rans,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Nathaniel Hawthorne  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• "Disorderly History in 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux'”  --  Joseph Alkana, NEQ:  New England Quarterly
• The Birthmark  --  Cindy Weinstein,  California Institute of Technology
• Young Goodman Brown  --  Lawrence I. Berkove,  U. of Michigan, Dearborn
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: A Psychoanalytic Reading  --  Bedford/St. Martin's 
• Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”: A Postcolonial Reading  --  Bedford/St. Martin's  
  
• essays on and an annotated copy of Young Goodman Brown -- students at Florida Gulf Coast University  
• The Scarlet Letter  --  Melissa McFarland Pennell,  U. of Massachusetts, Lowell
  
• Edgar Allan Poe  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• The Raven  --  Scott Peoples, College of Charleston
• The Fall of the House of Usher  --  Kevin J. Hayes, U. of Central Oklahoma
• essays on and an annotated copy of "The Fall of the House of Usher"  --  students at Florida Gulf Coast U.
• teaching Edgar Allan Poe  --  William Goldhurst, Heath Anthology of American Literature  
  
• Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Russell Goodman, U. of New Mexico  (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)  
• on Emerson's essay "Nature"  --  Gustaaf Van Cromphout, Northern Illinois U.  
• on Emerson's essay "The American Scholar" --  Robert Sattelmeyer, Georgia State U. 
• on Emerson's essay "The Poet" --  Joseph M. Thomas,  San Diego State U.  
  
• on Emerson's essay "Self Reliance" -- Wesley T. Mott,  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• a study guide to Emerson's essay "Self -Reliance"  --  
• teaching Ralph Waldo Emerson  --  Jean Ferguson Carr, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Henry David Thoreau  -- Wikipedia
• Henry David Thoreau  --  Wendell P. Glick, U.of Minnesota
• Henry David Thoreau  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Henry David Thoreau  --  Ann Woodlief, American Transcendentalism Web
  
• Walden  --  Robert Sattelmeyer,  George State U. 
• Resistance to Civil Government  --  Richard J. Schneider
• teaching Henry David Thoreau  --  Wendell P. Glick, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  

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Wk 4:   American Poetry at Mid-Century:  Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson   [read selections from Vol. 1 of the Norton Anthology]
Wednesday, February 3

• Walt Whitman
• Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855)
• Inscriptions
• One's Self I Sing
• Shut Not Your Doors
• Song of Myself (1881)

• Emily Dickinson  
• 260 [288] [I'm Nobody! Who are you?]
• 269 [249] [Wild Nights - Wild Nights!]
• 320 [258] [There's a certain Slant of light]
• 339 [241] [I like a look of Agony]
• 340 [280] [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain]
• 359 [328] [A Bird came down the Walk - ]
• 372 [341] [After great pain, a formal feeling comes - ]
• 448 [449] [I died for Beauty - but was scarce]
• 479 [712] [Because I could not stop for Death - ]
• 519 [441] [This is my letter to the World]
• 591 [465] [I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - ]
• 620 [435] [Much Madness is divinest Sense - ]
• 657        [I dwell in Possibility--]   --  annotated copy
• 764 [754] [My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - ]
• 1096 [986] [A narrow Fellow in the Grass]

Background Reading:

• Individualism and Community  --  Robert Shulman, University of Washington
• Sexuality and the Body  --  Bruce Burgett,  U. of Washington, Bothell
• Same-Sex Love  --  Michael Borgstrom, San Diego State U.  
  
• Lyric Poetry  [in 19th century America]  --  Susan Carol Hauser,  Bemidji State U.
• Death  --  Russ Castronovo, U. of Wisconsin, Madison
  
• Mourning  --  Dana Luciano,  Georgetown U. 
• The Classroom Electric:  Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture
  
• "Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief" by David Bake  [on "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "I Could Not Stop For Death"]    
• Walt Whitman  --  Wikipedia
• Walt Whitman  -- Betsy Erkkila, Northwestern U.  
  
• Walt Whitman  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Leaves of Grass  --  M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M U.   
• Song of Myself  --  Ed Folsom, U. of Iowa
• Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking  --  Mark Bauerlein, Emory U.  
• When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd  --  James Perrin Warren, 
• teaching Walt Whitman  --  Betsy Erikkila, Heath Anthology of American Literature 
• Emily Dickinson  --  Wikipedia
• Emily Dickinson  --  Peggy McIntosh, Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women and Ellen Louise Hart, University of California at Santa Cruz, Cowell College
• Emily Dickinson  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Poems of Emily Dickinson  --  Domhnall Mitchell, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology
• essays on and an annotated copy of "I dwell in possibility"  --  students at University of South Florida
• My Favorite Poet: Emily Dickinson -- Michael Ryan, Poets.org
• A Close Reading of "I Cannot Live With You"  --  Poets.org
• Guide to Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems --  Poets.org  
• teaching Emily Dickinson  --  Peggy McIntosh and Ellen Louise Hart, Heath Anthology of American Literature

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Wk 5:  Fulfilling the Promise:  Race and Gender in Ante-Bellum America
Wednesday, February 10

• Harriet Jacobs
• from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  
  • I. Childhood
  • VII. The Lover
  • X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life
  • XIV. Another Link to Life
  • XXI. The Loophole of Retreat
  • XLI. Free at Last
• Frederick Douglass
• What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
• Margaret Fuller
• from The Great Lawsuit:  Man versus Men.  Woman versus Women
  
  • [Four Kinds of Equality]
  • [The Great Radical Dualism]
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• from Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly
  
  • Chapter VII. The Mother’s Struggle
  • Chapter IX. In Which It Appears That a Senator Is but a Man
  • Chapter XII. Select Incident of Lawful Trade

Background Reading:

• Reform  --  Gregory Eiselein,  Kansas State U.  
• Blacks  --  Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State U.  
• Slavery  --  Elizabeth J. West, Georgia State U. 
• Slave Narratives  --  Yolanda Pierce, Princeton Theological Seminary
• The Slave Narrative  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
  
• Abolitionist Writing  --  Emily E. VanDette, State U. of New York, Fredonia
• Africans in America  --  PBS
• Slavery and the Making of America  --  PBS
• Timeline of American Slavery  --  PBS
• Slavery in America:  History
  
• The Anti-Slavery Movement  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• The African-American Mosaic:  Abolition  --  Library of Congress
  
• American Abolitionism  --  Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis
• Abolitionism  --  Wikipedia
• Civil War in (Southern) Literture  --  Lewis P. Simpson,  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Female Authorship  --  Susan Coultrap-McQuin, State U. of New York at Oswego
• Feminism  --  Nina Baym, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Domestic or Sentimental Fiction, 1820-1865  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• The Cult of Domesticity and True Womanhood  -- Catherine Lavender, The College of Staten Island/CUNY
  
• Sentimentalism  --  Joyce W. Warren,  Queens College (NY) 
• Suffrage  -- James R. Britton 
• Seneca Falls Convention  --  Amy Cummins, Fort Hays State U.  
• Declaration of Sentiments  --  Denise D. Knight, State U. of New York, Cortland
  
• Timeline from A History of the American Suffragist Movement  --  Doris Weatherford
• The Women's Rights Movement  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• "The Roots of Individualist Feminism in 19th Century America"  [ Part One  and  Part Two ] --  Wendy McElroy

• Frederick Douglass  --  Wikipedia
• Frederick Douglass  --  James A. Miller, Trinity College
  
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass --  William L. Andrews, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Frederick Douglass --  William A. Miller, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Frederick Douglass --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Frederick Douglass Papers  --  Library of Congress
• Harriet Jacobs -- Wikipedia
• Harriet Ann Jacobs  --  Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace U.  
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl  -- Lovalerie King, Pennsylvania State U.
• teaching Harriet Ann Jacobs  --  Jean Fagan Yellin, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Harriet A. Jacobs  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)   
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Wikipedia
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --  Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts U. 
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper  --  Janeen Grohsmeyer, The Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography
• teaching Frances Ellen Watkins Harper  --  Elizabeth Ammons, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Margaret Fuller  --  Wikipedia
• Margaret Fuller  --  Joel Myerson,  U. of South Carolina
  
• Margaret Fuller  --  American Transcendentalism Web
• Woman in the Nineteenth Century  --  Christina Zwarg, Haverford College
• teaching Sarah Margaret Fuller  --  Joel Myerson, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Margaret Fuller  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Wikipedia
• Harriet Beecher Stowe  --  Jane Tompkins, U. of Illinois, Chicago
  
• Uncle Tom's Cabin  --  Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of Technology
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture  --  Stephen Railton, U. of Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin  --   American Studies,  U. of Virginia
• Uncle Tom's Cabin  --  SparkNotes
• teaching Harriet Beecher Stowe  --  Jane Tompkins, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Harriet Beecher Stowe  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Fanny Fern (1811–1872) and Elizabeth Drew Stoddard (1823–1902)  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• "Fanny Fern"  (Sarah Willis Parton) -- Wikipedia
• "Fanny Fern"  (Sarah Willis Parton)  --  Barbara A. White, U. of New Hampshire
• teaching "Fanny Fern"  --  Barbara A. White, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• "Fanny Fern"  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  --  Wikipedia
• Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  --  Sybil Weir, San Jose State University and Sandra A. Zagarell, Oberlin College
• teaching Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  --  Sybil Weir and Sandra A. Zagarell, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Elizabeth Stoddard  --  The Vault at Pfaff's:  An Archive of Art and Literature by New York City's Nineteenth Century Bohemians, Lehigh U.  
• Elizabeth Stoddard  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

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[Mardi-Gras Break:  Saturday, Feburary 13 to Sunday, Feb. 21]

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Wk 6:    Herman Melville's The Confidence Man
Wednesday, February 24  

• Mid-term take-home exam due Friday, February 26 before 2:00 pm in Jackson Hall 307

• Background Reading:  
• Herman Melville  --  Wikipedia
• Herman Melville  --  Carolyn L. Karcher, Temple U.  
  
• Herman Melville biography  --  Hennig Cohen,  Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 3: Antebellum Writers in New York and the South  (1979)
• Confidence Men [in mid-19th century American literature]  -- William E. Lenz,  Chatham U.  
• Melville's The Confidence-Man  -- Tom Quirk, U. of Missouri, Columbia
  
• The Confidence Man:  His Masquerade  --  Scott Eric Atkins,  U. of Virginia
• "Melville's Quarrel With Fiction"  --  Nina Baym, U. of Illinois
• "Deceiving America:  The 'Marks of Dishonesty' in Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Confidence Man"  --  Andrew Green,  U. of Birmingham
• Melville Society Extracts
• Bartleby, the Scrivener  --  Haskell Springer, U. of Kansas
• a bio of Melville and three of his poems  --  Poets.org
  
• approaches to teaching Melville  --  Carolyn L. Karcher,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• a bibliography on Melville
• Herman Melville  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)  

 

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Wk 7 :   Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism, Part I
Wednesday March 3

***  Friday, March 5:  1000-word essay on Melville's The Confidence Man 

• Mark Twain
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  [Chapters I-XI]
  
• William Dean Howells
  
• Editha
  
• Henry James
• Daisy Miller:  A Study
• Jack London 
• To Build a Fire
• Stephen Crane
• from The Black Riders
• from War is Kind
  

Background Reading:

• Southwestern Humor, 1830-1860  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 

• (Southern) Humor in Literature  --  Mark Steadman,   Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Realism in American literature  --  Donna Campbell
• Some Notes on Realism  --  John Lye, Brock U. 
• Realism and Naturalism  --  Paul Brians, Washington State U.  
  
• Notes on Realism and Naturalism  --  Soo Yeon Choi, Kyungsung University (Korea)
• Naturalism in American literature  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• American Naturalism  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

• "Mark Twain" (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)  --  Wikipedia
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens  "Mark Twain"  --  Everett Emerson,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Samuel Langhorne Clemens  "Mark Twain"  --  Everett Emerson, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Mark Twain page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Mark Twain  --  Alan Gribben,  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Mark Twain in His Times  --  Stephen Railton, U. of Virginia
  
• a Mark Twain chronology  --  PBS
• a Mark Twain biography  --  PBS
  
• Mark Twain  online project  --  U. of California, Berkeley
• "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses"  --  Mark Twain
  
• The Mark Twain They Didn't Teach Us About in School  --  Helen Scott,  International Socialist Review
• Acting Naturally:  Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance  --  Randall Knoper  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1995)
• Getting to Be Mark Twain  --  Jeffrey Steinbrink  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1991)
• Travelling in Mark Twain  --  Richard Bridgman  (full text of book from U. of California P, 1987)
• Mark Twain  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• William Dean Howells  --  Wikipedia
• William Dean Howells  --  Gary Scharnhorst,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching William Dean Howells  --  John W. Crowley,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• William Dean Howells  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• William Dean Howells  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• William Dean Howells  --   Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Henry James  --  Wikipedia
• Henry James  --  Alfred Habegger,  U. of Kansas
• Henry James page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• teaching Henry James  --  Alfred Habegger, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Daisy Miller  --  SparkNotes
• Daisy Miller  --  Cliff sNotes @ Yahoo
  
• Daisy Miller  --  Wikipedia
• The Henry James Scholar's Guide to Web Sites
  
• Henry James  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Theodore Dreiser  --  Wikipedia
• Theodore Dreiser  --  James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel and James L. W. West III, Pensylvannia State U.  
• teaching Theodore Dreiser  -- James M. Hutchisson, The Citadel and James L. W. West III, Pensylvannia State U.
• Theodore Dreiser  --  Spartacus
  
• Theodore Dreiser  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• Theodore Dreiser  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)  
• Stephen Crane  --  Wikipedia
• Stephen Crane  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U. 
• Stephen Crane  --  Donald Vanouse,  SUNY, Oswego
• teaching Stephen Crane  --  Donald Vanouse,  Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Stephen Crane  --  X. J. Kennedy and Dana Goia,  Literature:  An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
• Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat"  --  Spark Notes
  
• Stephen Crane  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Jack London  --  Wikipedia
• Jack London  --  Joan D. Hedrick, Trinity College 
• Jack London  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• teaching Jack London  --  Joan D. Hedrick,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Jack London  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• The Call of the Wild  --  SparkNotes
  
• The Call of the Wild  --  CliffsNotes@ Yahoo
• The Jack London Online Collection  --   Roy Tennant and Dr. Clarice Stasz., Sonoma State U. Library
• The World of Jack London  --  David A. Hartzell  
• Jack London  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Frank Norris  --  Wikipedia
• teaching Frank Norris  --  Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.,  
• Frank Norris  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• Frank Norris  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 

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Wk 8 :    Corrington Award Winner:  Stanley Plumly      [Mid-term grades due Monday, Mar 8]  
Wednesday, March 10

• Stanley Plumly -- Poets.org 
• Stanley Plumley  --  Poetry Foundation
• Stanley Plumly page @ U. of Maryland 
• "Something of the Sort: Full-bodied, paper-original, non-expedient correspondence"  --  Stanley Plumly, Poetry Northwest  
• "A Conversation With Stanley Plumly"  --  Lisa Meyer, Boston Review
• "Stanley Plumly:  An Interview"  --  David Biespiel, American Poetry Review
• "Language Makes the Senses One" [interview with Plumly]  --  Peter Davison, The Atlantic
• Interview with Stanley Plumly at the Library of Congress --  Grace Cavalieri
• Audio interview with Stanley Plumly  --  Dave Ottalini, U. of Maryland
  
• "'A Darkness Pulled Out of Us': Stanley Plumly and the Elegy of Relationship"  --  Brian Walpert, Papers on Language and Literature
• "Keat's Afterlife" [rev. of  Posthumous Keats:  A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly] --  Christopher Ricks, The New York Review of Books
  
• Stanley Plumly --  Wikipedia
  

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Wk 9:    Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism II            
Wednesday, March 17

   Note:  Tuesday, March 16 7:00 pm  -- Stanley Plumley reads his poetry and receives the Corrington Award -- Whited Room in Bynums Common

• Sarah Orne Jewett
• A White Heron
• Emma Lazarus
• The New Colossus
• Kate Chopin
• At the 'Cadian Ball
• The Storm
• Désirée's Baby
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Yellow Wall-paper
• Edith Wharton
• Roman Fever
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Souls of Black Folks
• I. Of Our Spiritual Strivings
• III. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others
• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• We Wear the Mask

• Background Reading:  

• Regionalism and Local Color Fiction, 1865-1895  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.
• The Plantation Tradition in Local Color Fiction  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.  
• Regionalism and Local Color (in Southern literature)  --  Anne E. Rowe, Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
• Local Color Era (in Southern literature)  --   Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris,  Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

• Sarah Orne Jewett -- Wikipedia
• Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Elizabeth Ammons,  Tufts U.  
• teaching Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Elizabeth Ammons,  Tufts U.  
• Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• Sarah Orne Jewett  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Emma Lazarus  --  Wikipedia
• Emma Lazarus  -- Diane Lichtenstein,  Jewish Women in America,  eds, Paula Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore.  
• Emma Lazarus  --  Jewish Women's Archive
• Emma Lazarus and Her Vision  --  Bette Roth Young, Digital History  (U. of Houston)  
  
• "The New Colossus"  --  Wikipedia
  
• Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  Wikipedia
• Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  William L. Andrews,  U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
• teaching Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  William L. Andrews,  U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Charles W. Chestnutt page  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.
• Charles Wadell Chestnutt  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Kate Chopin  --  Wikipedia
• Kate Chopin  --  Peggy Skaggs, Angelo State U. 
• teaching Kate Chopin -- Peggy Skaggs, Heath Anthology of American Literature 
• Kate Chopin  --  Donna Campbell,  Washington State U. 
• Kate Chopin  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• The Kate Chopin International Society
  
• Booker T. Washington  --  Wikipedia  
• Booker T. Washington  --  William L. Andrews, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Booker T. Washington  --  William L. Andrews, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Booker T. Washington  --  Spartacus Educational
• Booker T.  Washington  --  Louis R. Harlan, U. of Maryland
  
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman  -- Wikipedia
• The Yellow Wall-paper  --  Wikipedia
• essays on and an annotated copy of The Yellow Wall-paper  --  students at Florida Gulf Coast U.  
• teaching "The Yellow Wall-Paper"   --  Elaine Hedges,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman  -- Donna Campbell,  Washington State U.  
• Edith Wharton  --  Elizabeth Ammons, Tufts U.
• Edith Wharton  --  Wikipedia
• Edith Wharton  --   Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen
• "Edith Wharton's Passionate Realism"  [review of Hermione Lee's biography Edith Wharton]   --  Michael Gorra, Smith College  [Times Literary Supplement -- London]  
  
• Edith Wharton's World:  Portraits of People and Places  --  National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. 
• The Mount:  Estate and Gardens  
• Sui Sin Far  (Edith Maud Eaton)  --  Wikipedia
• Sui Sin Far  (Edith Maud Eaton)  --  Donna Campbell, Washington State U.  
• Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton)  --  Amy Ling, University of Wisconsin, Madison and King-Kog Cheung, University of California, Los Angeles and Dominika Ferens, University of Wroclaw, Poland
• Sui Sin Far  (Edith Maud Eaton)  --  Amy Ling, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Edith Maude Eaton  (Sui Sin Far) -- Terry D. Novak, Johnson & Wales University and Piyali Dalal,  U. of Minnesota  (Voices from the Gaps)
• W.E.B. Du Bois  --  Wikipedia
• W.E.B. Du Bois  -- Frederick Woodard, U. of Iowa
• teaching W.E.B. Du Bois --  Frederick Woodard, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• W.E.B. Du Bois  --  NAACP
  
• W.E.B. Du Bois  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar  --  Wikipedia
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  Wikipedia
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  PBS
• Frederick Jackson Turner  --  Jeffrey B. Flagg,  Bowling Green State U.  
  
• Theodore Roosevelt  --  Wikipedia
• Roosevelt's concept of "The Strenuous Life"  --  Wikipedia
  
• Helen Hunt Jackson  --  Wikipedia
• Helen Hunt Jackson bio  --  
  
• Helen Hunt Jackson  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• José Martí  --  Wikipedia
•  José Martí --   Enrique Sacerio-Garí,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• approaches to teaching Jose Marti  --  Enrique Sacerio-Garí,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Jane Adams  --  Wikipedia
• Jane Adams bio  --  Women in History
  
• Jane Adams  --   Maurice Hamington,  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  
• Anna Julia Cooper  --  Wikipedia
• Anna Julia Cooper  --   Richard Yarborough, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Anna Julia Cooper bio  --  Robin Kadison Berson,  Chicken Bones:  A Journal

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Wk 10:   The Rise of Modernism:  Poetry  
Wednesday, March 24

• Robert Frost
• Fire and Ice
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Wallace Stevens
• Sunday Morning
• Anecdote of the Jar
• William Carlos Williams
• The Red Wheelbarrow
• This Is Just to Say
• The Dance ("In Brueghel’s great picture, The Kermess")
• Ezra Pound
• In a Station of the Metro
• The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
• Marianne Moore
• Poetry 
• T. S. Eliot
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock 
• E. E. Cummings
• O sweet spontaneous
• Buffalo Bill’s
• next to of course god america i
• i sing of Olaf glad and big
• Langston Hughes
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Mother to Son
• I, Too
• The Weary Blues
• Theme for English B

Background Reading:

• A Brief Guide to Modernism  --  Poets.org
• Some Attributes of Modernist Writing --  John Lye, Brock U.  
• Some Cultural Forces Driving Modernism  --  Johy Lye, Brock U.
  
• A Brief Guide to Imagism  --  Poets.org
  

• Robert Frost  --  Wikipedia
• Robert Frost  --  James Guimond, Rider College
• teaching Robert Frost  --  James Guimond, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Robert Frost -- Poets.org 
• Robert Frost   --  Cary Nelson and Edward Bruner, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
• Robert Frost timeline  -- Jeff Ketzle
• Frost's early poetry  --  Bartleby.com
• interview with Robert Frost  --  Paris Review
  
• Robert Frost  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Wallace Stevens  --  Wikipedia
• Wallace Stevens  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Wallace Stevens  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literature
  
• Wallace Stevens  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
  
• Wallace Stevens  -- Poets.org
• Wallace Stevens  --  Edward Brunner,  John Timberman Newcomb,  and Cary Nelson  --  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
• Groundbreaking Book: Harmonium by Wallace Stevens (1923)  --  Poets.org
• To Reinvent Invention:  John Hollander on Wallace Stevens  --  John Hollander,  Poets.org
  
• The Wallace Stevens Journal/Society
  
• Wallace Stevens  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Mina Loy  --  Wikipedia
• Mina Loy  --  Janet Lyon and Elizabeth Majerus,  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• The Truth is Out There:  Mina Loy's Lunar Odyssey  --  Jenifer Wolkowski,  Case Western Reserve U.  
• Mina Loy in Too Much Too Soon  --  Rob Sheffield,  The Literary Review
  
• Mina Loy  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• William Carlos Williams  --  Wikipedia
• William Carlos Williams  --  Theodora Rapp Graham, Pennsylvania State U., Harrisburg
•  teaching William Carlos Williams  --  Theodora R. Graham, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• William Carlos Williams  --  Cary Nelson,  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• William Carlos Williams  --  Poets.org
• Groundbreaking book: Spring and All  by William Carlos Williams (1923)  --  Poets.org
• interview with William Carlos Williams  --  Paris Review
  
• William Carlos Williams  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Ezra Pound  -- Wikipedia
• Ezra Pound  --  Betsy Erkkila, U. of Pennsylvania 
• teaching Ezra Pound  --  Betsy Erkkila, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Ezra Pound  --  Cary Nelson, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• Ezra Pound  --  Poets.org
• Groundbreaking Book: The Cantos by Ezra Pound (1925)  --  Poets.org
• interview with Ezra Pound  --  Paris Review
  
• Ezra Pound  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Marianne Moore  --  Wikipedia
• Marianne Moore  --  Bernard F. Engel, Michigan State U.
• teaching Marianne Moore  --  Bernard F. Engel, Heath Anthology of American Literature  
  
• Marianne Moore @  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  --  Patricia C. Willis and Cary Nelson
• Groundbreaking Book: Selected Poems by Marianne Moore (1935)  @ Poets.org
• Four letters from Marianne Moore  @ Poets.org
• interview with Marianne Moore  -- Paris Review
  
• Marianne Moore  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• T. S. Eliot  -- Wikipedia
•  T. S. Eliot  --  Sam S. Baskett, Michigan State U.  
• teaching T. S. Eliot --  Sam S. Baskett, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• T. S. Eliot  --  Jed Esty, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• T. S. Eliot  --  Poets.org
• Groundbreaking Book: Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot (1946)  --  Poets.org
• interview with T. S. Eliot  --  Paris Review
  
• T. S. Eliot  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Claude McKay  --  Wikipedia
• Claude McKay  -- Elvin Holt, Southwest Texas State U.
• teaching Claude McKay  -- Elvin Holt,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Claude McKay  --  William Maxwell,  Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• Claude McKay  --  Norton Anthology of American  Literature
• Claude McKay  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)  
• E. E. Cummings  -- Wikipedia
• E. E. Cummings  --  Richard S. Kennedy, Temple U.
  
• teaching E. E. Cummings  --  Richard Kennedy, Heath Anthology of American Poetry
  
• E. E. Cummings  --  Michael Benzel, Modern American Poetry (MAPS) 
• E. E. Cummings  --  Poets.org
• Spring:  The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society  
  
• E. E. Cummings  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)  
• Langston Hughes  --  Wikipedia
• Langston Hughes  -- Charles H. Nichols, Brown U. 
• teaching Langston Hughes  --  Charles H. Nichols, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Langston Hughes  --  Cary Nelson, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• Langston Hughges  --  Poets.org 
• Langston Hughes  --  Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Notable Black American Men
• Langston Hughes  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

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Wk 11:     No Class:  Easter Break
Wednesday, March 31

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Wk 12:   The Rise of Modernism:  Fiction  
Wednesday, April 7

• Sherwood Anderson
• from Winesburg, Ohio:   
• Hands 
• Mother
• Katherine Anne Porter
• Flowering Judas
• Zora Neale Hurston
• How It Feels to Be Colored Me
• The Gilded Six-Bits
• Ernest Hemingway
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Winter Dreams
• Babylon Revisited
• William Faulkner
• Barn Burning
• Richard Wright
• The Man Who Was Almost a Man

Background Reading:

• Sherwood Anderson  --  Wikipedia
• Sherwood Anderson  --  Martha Curry, Wayne State U.  
• teaching Sherwood Anderson  --  Martha Curry, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Sherwood Anderson  -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers
• Sherwood Anderson  --  Encyclopedia of World Biography
• "Introduction to Winesburg, Ohio"  --  Irving Howe
  
• Sherwood Anderson and Paris --  Leland H. Cox, Jr., Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Sherwood Anderson  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Katherine Anne Porter  --  Wikipedia
• Katherine Anne Porter  --  Jane Krause DeMouy and Darlene Unrue, University of Nevada–Las Vegas
• teaching Katherine Anne Porter  --  Jane Krause DeMouy,  University of Nevada–Las Vegas
• Katherine Anne Porter  -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers 
• biography of Katherine Anne Porter --  Katherine Anne Porter Archives at the U. of Maryland
• interview with Katherine Anne Porter  --  Paris Review
  
• Katherine Anne Porter  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Wikipedia
• Zora Neale Hurston  -- Robert E. Hemenway, U. of Kansas
• teaching Zora Neale Hurston  -- Robert Hemenway, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography - Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998
• Zora Neale Hurston  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Ernest Hemingway  --  Wikipedia
• Ernest Hemingway  --  Margaret Anne O'Connor, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Ernest Hemingway  --  Margaret Anne O'Connor and John Alberti, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Ernest Hemingway  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• Timeless Hemingway 
• Picturing Hemingway  --  National Portrait Gallery
  
• interview with Ernest Hemingway  --  Paris Review
• "A Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway"  --  Anders Hallengren, Nobelprize.org
• Ernest Hemingway  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Wikipedia
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  John F. Callahan, Lewis and Clark College
• teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald  -- John F. Callahan and John Alberti , Heath Anthology of American Literture
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Norton Anthology of American Literature
• F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary --  U. of South Carolina
• The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald in the New York Times  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• William Faulkner  --  Wikipedia
• William Faulkner  --  John Lowe, Louisiana State U. 
• William Faulkner  --  John Lowe, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• William Faulkner on the Web  --  John B. Padgett, U. of Mississippi
• William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"  --  Spark Notes 
• Willam Faulkner's "Barn Burning"  --  Spark Notes
  
• William Faulkner in The New York Times  
• interview with William Faulkner  --  Paris Review
• William Faulkner  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Richard Wright  --  Wikipedia
• Richard Wright  --  John M. Reilly, Howard U. 
• teaching Richard Wright  --  John M. Reilly, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Richard Wright  in The New York Times
• Richard Wright  --  The Mississippi Writers' Page
• Richard Wright  --  Bill Mullen, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
• Richard Wright  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers 

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Wk 13:    Mid-Century Modernism:  Fiction
Wednesday, April 14

• Eudora Welty
• Petrified Man
• John Cheever
• The Swimmer
• Ralph Ellison
• Invisible Man
• Chapter 1 [Battle Royal]
• Saul Bellow
• The Adventures of Augie March
• Chapter One
• Jack Kerouac
• from Big Sur
• Chapters 12-14
• James Baldwin
• Going to Meet the Man
• Flannery O'Connor
• Good Country People

Background Reading:

• "The Jewish Writer in America"  --  Eugene Goodheart, Sewanee Review

• Eudora Welty  --  Wikipedia
• Eudora Welty  --  Jennifer L. Randisi, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Eudora Welty  --  Jennifer L. Randisi, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Eudora Welty  --  Mississippi Writers' Page
• Eudora Welty as Photographer  --  T. A. Fraill, Smithsonian Magazine
• Eudora Welty's "Petrified Man" -- a short critique
• Sexual Politics in Welty's "Moon Lake" and "Petrified Man"  --  Price Caldwell, Waseda University, Japan
• Eudora Welty in The New York Times
• interview with Eudora Welty  --  Paris Review
• Eudora Welty  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• John Cheever  --  Wikipedia
• John Cheever -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers
• John Cheever: Parody and the Suburban Aesthetic --  John Dyer
• "The Demons That Drove John Cheever" -- Rachel Cooke, The Observer 
• John Cheever's "The Swimmer"  --  Enotes.com
• John Cheever's "The Swimmer"  --  Spark Notes
  
• interview with John Cheever  --  Paris Review
• The First Suburbanite  --  Charles McGrath, The New York Times
  
• John Cheever --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Ralph Ellison  --  Wikipedia
• Ralph Ellison  --  John F. Callahan, Lewis and Clark U.  
• teaching Ralph Ellison  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Ralph Ellison  --  Gordon O. Taylor, Oklahoma Enclyclopedia of History and Culture
• Ralph Ellison's The Invisible Man [Chapter 1: "Battle Royal"]  --  Spark Notes
• interview with Ralph Ellison  --  Paris Review
• Ralph Ellison -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Saul Bellow  --  Wikipedia
• Saul Bellow  --  Allen Chavkin, Southwest Texas State U. 
• Saul Bellow  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers
• The Adventures of Augie March  --  Wikipedia
• The Adventures of Augie March  --  Penguin Books
  
• Saul Bellow in The New York Times  
  
• Saul Bellow  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Jack Kerouac  -- Wikipedia
• Jack Kerouac  --  Hilary Holladay, U. of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Jack Kerouac  --  Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Jack Kerouac  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers
• Jack Kerouac in The New York Times 
• interview with Jack Kerouac  --  Paris Review
• Jack Kerouac  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• James Baldwin  --  Wikipedia
• James Baldwin  --  Trudier Harris, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching James Baldwin  --  Trudier Harris and John Reilly, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• James Baldwin  -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers 
• James Baldwin: An Appreciation  --  John Stevenson, Boston Book Review
• James Baldwin  --  Gale/Cengage 
• interview with James Baldwin  --  Paris Review
• James Baldwin  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Flannery O'Connor  --  Wikipedia
• Flannery O'Connor  -- Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers 
• Flannery O'Connor  --  Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College
• teaching Flannery O'Connor  --  Beverly Lyon Clark, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• The Dark Side of the Cross:  Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction -- Patrick Galloway
• "Temporality and Narrative Structure in Flannery O’Connor’s Tales"  --  Marita Nadal, U. of Zaragoza (Spain)
• "Erasing Angel : The Lucifer-Trickster Figure in Flannery O'Connor s Short Fiction"  --  Melita Schaum,  Southern Literary Journal
  
• Flannery O'Connor  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

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Wk 14:   Contemporary Fiction
Wednesday, April 21

• Toni Morrison
• Recitatif
• Thomas Pynchon
• Entropy
• Raymond Carver
• Cathedral
• Alice Walker
• Everyday Use
• Jhumpa Lahiri 
• Sexy

Background Reading:

• Some Attributes of Post-Modernist Writing  --  John Lye, Brock U. 
• Black (African-American) Literary Criticism  --  John Lye, Brock U.
  

• Toni Morrison  --  Wikipedia
• Toni Morrison  --  Trudier Harris, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Toni Morrison  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers 
• Study Guide for Toni Morrison's "Recitatif" 
• "When She Speaks, America Listens:  A Profile of Toni Morrison"  --  Hephzibah Anderson, The Observer (London)
  
• Toni Morrison in The New York Times
• Toni Morrison's 1993 Nobel Prize Lecture 
• Toni Morrison  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Thomas Pynchon  --  Wikipedia
• Thomas Pynchon  --  Derek C. Maus, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Thomas Pynchon  --  Richard Pearce, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• on Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"  --   San Narcisco Community College
• notes on Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"  -- Ariane Busch, Stefan Füssl, Michelle Stöger, Laura Strathmann, Universität Augsburg
• "Beyond Linguistic Barriers:  The Musical Fugue Structure of Thomas Pynchon's 'Entropy'"  --  Carmen Perez-Llantada Auria, U. of Zarragoza
• Thomas Pynchon: A Brief Chronology  --  Paul Royster,  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  
• Thomas Pynchon  --   Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature
• Raymond Carver  --  Wikipedia
• Raymond Carver  --  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• teaching Raymond Carver  --  Paul Jones, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Raymond Carver  --  Petri Liukkonen & Ari Pesonen, Books and Writers
• Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"  --  Spark Notes
• notes on Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"  --  J. Esch,  Turksheadreview.com
• "A Feminist Re-Vision of the Work of Interpretation in Raymond Carver’s 'Cathedral'”  --  Eve Wiederhold, George Mason University
  
• Raymond Carver --  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Alice Walker  -- Wikipedia
• Alice Walker  --  Michael E. Muellero, Contemporary Black Biography
• Alice Walker  --    Quiana Whitted, The New Georgia Encyclopedia
  
• Alice Walker's Garden  --  Walker's personal web page
• Study Guide to Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"  --  Lyman A. Baker,  Kansas State U.
• Alice Walker's "Everyday Use"  --  Spark Notes
• “'Everyday Use'”: Defining African-American Heritage"  --  David White, Portals
• Alice Walker  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Jhumpa Lahiri  --  Wikipedia
• Jhumpa Lahiri  --  home page
• Jhumpa Lahiri  --  Voices from the Gaps, University of Minnesota
  
• Jhumpa Lahiri:  The Quiet Laureate  --  Lev Grossman, Time Magazine
• The Confidence Artist  --   Boris Kachka,  New York Magazine 
• Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri  --  Jill Owens, Powells.com
• "Male Love, Female Lives: Romantic Traditions in Lahiri’s 'Sexy'" --  Karen Rustad 

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Wk 15:    From Mid-Century Modernist to Contemporary Poetry
Wednesday, April 28:  

• Theodore Roethke
• My Papa's Waltz
• The Waking
• Elegy for Jane
• Elizabeth Bishop
• The Fish
• The Armadillo
• In the Waiting Room
• Robert Lowell
• Skunk Hour
• For the Union Dead
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• from A Street in Bronzeville
• kitchenette building
• the mother
• The White Troops Had Their Orders But the Negroes Looked Like Men
• We Real Cool
• The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
• To the Diaspora
• Allen Ginsberg
• Howl
• Footnote to Howl
• A Supermarket in California
  
• Sylvia Plath
• Morning Song
• Lady Lazarus
• Daddy

• Adrienne Rich
• Storm Warnings
• Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law
• Diving into the Wreck
• Yusef Komunyakaa
• Facing It
• My Father’s Love Letters
• Slam, Dunk, & Hook
• When Dusk Weighs Daybreak
• Jasmine
• Sherman Alexie
• At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School
• Pawn Shop
• Crow Testament
• Do Not Go Gentle

Background Reading for Mid-Century Modernist Poetry:

• Theodore Roethke  --  Wikipedia
• Theodore Roethke  --  Janis Stout, Texas A&M U.  
• Theodore Roethke  --  Janis Stout,  Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Theodore Roethke  --  Poets.org
• Theodore Roethke  --  Cary Nelson and Walter Kalaidjian, Modern American Poetry (MAPS) 
• Approaches and Contexts to "My Papa's Waltz"  --  Bedford/St. Martin's
• Elements of Poetry in "My Papa's Waltz"  
• Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”: A Reader’s Response  
• Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”: A Deconstructionist Reading 
• Theodore Roethke  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Elizabeth Bishop  --  Wikipedia
• Elizabeth Bishop  --  C. K. Doreski, Boston U. 
• teaching Elizabeth Bishop  --  C. K. Doreski, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Elizabeth Bishop  --  Robert Dale Parker, Edward Brunner, and Cary Nelson  -- Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
  
• "Visibility is Poor": Elizabeth Bishop's Obsessive Imagery and Mystical Unsaying"  --  Katie Ford, Poets.org
• Approaches and Contexts to "The Fish"  --  Bedford/St. Martin's 
• Elements of Poetry in "The Fish"  
• Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”: A Psychoanalytic Reading  
• “Studying With Miss Bishop” --  Dana Gioia
• Elizabeth Bishop  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Robert Lowell  --  Wikipedia
• Robert Lowell  -- Linda Wagner-Martin, U. of North Carolina,  Chapel Hill
• teaching Robert Lowell  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Robert Lowell  --  Poetry Foundation
  
• Robert Lowell  --  Michael Thurston, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• "Groundbreaking Book: Life Studies by Robert Lowell (1959)"  --  Poets.org  
• "The Raw and the Cooked: Robert Lowell and the Beats"  --  Tina Cane, Poets.org
• "Robert Lowell: 'Skunk Hour':  Witness the Making of a New American Poetics"  --  Troy Jollimore, Poetry Foundation
• interview with Robert Lowell  --  Paris Review
• Robert Lowell  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Gwendolyn Brooks  --  Wikipedia
• Gwendolyn Brooks  --  D. H. Melhem,  Heath Anthology of American Literture
• teaching Gwendolyn Brooks  --  D. H. Melhem,  Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Gwendolyn Brooks  --  Poetry Foundation
• Gwendolyn Brooks  --  James Sullivan, Modern American Poetry  (MAPS)
• "Groundbreaking Book: The Bean Eaters by Gwendolyn Brooks (1960)"  --  Poets.org
• Gwendolyn Brooks  -- Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Allen Ginsberg  --  Wikipedia
• Allen Ginsberg  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Allen Ginsberg  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Allen Ginsberg  --  James Sullivan, Modern American Poetry  (MAPS)
• Allen Ginsberg  --  Poets.org
• Allen Ginsberg  --  Poetry Foundation
  
• interview with Allen Ginsberg  --  Paris Review
• Allen Ginsberg  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 
• Sylvia Plath  --  Wikipedia
• Sylvia Plath  --  Linda Wagner-Martin,  U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• teaching Sylvia Plath  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literture
• Sylvia Plath  --  Karen Ford and Cary Nelson, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
• "Groundbreaking Book: Ariel by Sylvia Plath (1965)"  --  Poets.org
• "Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration"  --  M. D. Uroff, Iowa Review
• interview with Sylvia Plath (1962)  --  Peter Orr,  from: The Poet Speaks - Interviews with Contemporary Poets
• Sylvia Plath  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature) 

Background Reading for Contemporary Poetry:  

• "Contemporary American Poetry"  --  Kathryn VanSpanckerern, U. of Tampa
• "The People's Poetry"  --  Hank Lazer, The Boston Review
• "A Field Guide to the Poetics of the '90s"  --  R. S. Gwynn, Lamar Tech University
• "The Genealogy of Postmodernism: Contemporary American Poetry"  --  Albert Gelpi,  The Southern Review
• "Textual Politics and the Language Poets"  --  George Hartley
  
•  “Neo-Formalism: A Dangerous Nostalgia.”   -- Ira Sadoff, The American Poetry Review
• "Issues of Form in Contemporary American Poetry"  --  Jiri Flajsar, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
• "Multiculturalism in Contemporary American Poetry"  -- Robert J. Bertholf  (U. of Buffalo),  Journal of American Studies of Turkey
• "Contemporary Black American Women Poets: Resisting Sexual Violence"  --  Ekaterini Georgoudaki, Journal of American Studies of Turkey
• "Lyric Poetry in the Age of Teleculture: Issues in Contemporary American Poetics"  --  Peter Grieco (Bilkent U., Turkey),  Journal of American Studies of Turkey

• Adrienne Rich  --  Wikipedia
• Adrienne Rich  --  Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate U.  
• teaching Adrienne Rich  --  Wendy Martin, Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Adrienne Rich  --  Cary Nelson, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• Adrienne Rich  --  Poets.org
• "Groundbreaking Book: Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich (1973)"  --  Poets.org  
• "On 'Diving Into the Wreck'"  --  Poets.org
• "Legislators of the World"  -- Adrienne Rich, The Guardian
  
• Adrienne Rich  --   Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Yusef Komunyakaa  -- Wikipedia 
• Yusef Komunyakaa  --  Linda Wagner-Martin, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Yusef Komunyakaa  --  Poets.org
• "Yusef Komunyakaa: An Argument Against Simplicity"  --  Poets.org
• Yusef Komunyakaa  --   Internet Poetry Archive
• Yusef Komunyakaa  --  Edward Brunner, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)  
• Yusef Komunyakaa  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)
• Sherman Alexie  --  Wikipedia
• Sherman Alexie  --  Amanda J. Cobb, New Mexico State U.  
• Sherman Alexi.com  --  official web site
• Sherman Alexie  --  Poets.org
  
• Sherman Alexie  --  The Poetry Foundation
• Sherman Alexie  --  Robert M. Luscher and Cary Nelson, Modern American Poetry (MAPS)
• Interview with Sherman Alexie  --  Robert Capriccioso, Identity Theory
• Sherman Alexie  --  Paul P. Reuben, California State U., Stanislaus  (PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature)

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Final Exam:     Jackson Hall 304