American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
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 poets and their individual traits

 

10.00
UNIT I: 
 
R.W. Emerson
The American Scholar

 

7.00
UNIT II: 
Emily Dickinson

Walt Whitman                                              Passage to India

                                                                  On the Beach at Night

 

10.00
UNIT III: 
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

 

10.00

                                                      Unit 4

 

 Mark Twain                                                Huckleberry Finn

 

8.00
UNIT V: 
Arthur Miller

Edgar Allan Poe                                          The Black Cat

 

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

                                                                  I Died for Beauty….

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

  • Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

  • Boris Ford : The New Pelican Guide to English Literature : American Literature Vol.9
  • J.D. Harg  ed. : The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 1983
  • John Jacob : History of American Literature
  • Harold Bloom : Eugene O’Neill (New York : Chelsea, 1987)
  • F.O. Mathiesson : American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (New Delhi : OUP, 1973.
  • Harold Bloom: The Scarlet Letter(Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations) (2007)
Academic Year: 
2015-2016