American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To enable the students to understand the evolution and development of American Literature.
  • To acquaint the students with major American Literary Movements, trends, poets and their traits.
  •    To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.
9.00
Unit I: 

R.W. Emerson                                                               

The American Scholar

9.00
Unit II: 

Walt Whitman                                                              

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

9.00
Unit III: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne                                             

The Scarlet Letter

9.00
Unit IV: 

Mark Twain                                                                   

Life on the Mississippi

9.00

Edgar Allan Poe                                                          

The Black Cat

The Tell Tale Heart

 

Emily Dickinson                                                         

Because I Could not Stop for Death

Hope is the Thing with Feathers

The Soul Selects her Own Society

I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed

 

Source Books: 
  • Egbert, S. Oliver. An Anthology: American Literature 1890-1965. New Delhi: Eurasia Publishing House (Pvt.) Limited, 1984.Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bloom Harold. The Scarlet Letter Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Infobase, 2007. Print.
  • Ford, Boris. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9.Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. Print.
  • Jacob, John. History of American Literature. Jaipur: Sublime Publications, 2005.Print.
  • Mathiesson, F.O. American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. New Delhi: OUP, 1973.Print
Academic Year: 
2019-2020