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American Literature-I
Objectives :
- 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.
R.W. Emerson
The American Scholar
Walt Whitman
Passage to India
On the Beach at Night
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
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….
Egbert, S. Oliver. An Anthology: American Literature 1890-1965. New Delhi: Eurasia Publishing House (Pvt.) Limited, 1984.Print.
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.