American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Gain an understanding of the culturalhistory of America
  • Be familiar withthe representation of variousliterary trends in the literature of the age
  • Interpret some of the major literary works of eminent American writers, in terms of their themes and issues, style and treatment

 

R.W. Emerson                                                               

The American Scholar

Walt Whitman                                                              

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

Nathaniel Hawthorne                                             

The Scarlet Letter

Mark Twain                                                                   

Life on the Mississippi

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: 

Source Book:

Egbert, S. Oliver. An Anthology: American Literature 1890-1965. Eurasia Publishing House, 1984.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Bloom Harold. The Scarlet Letter Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. Infobase, 2007.

Ford, Boris. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9. Penguin, 1983.

Jacob, John. History of American Literature. Sublime Publications, 2005.

Mathiesson, F.O. American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. OUP, 1973.

Academic Year: 
2020-2021