American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Gain an understanding of the culturalhistory of America
  • Be familiarized with the representation of various literary 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
9.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

R.W. Emerson                                                            

The American Scholar

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Walt Whitman                                                           

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Nathaniel Hawthorne                                            

The Scarlet Letter

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Mark Twain                                                                

Life on the Mississippi

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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. Eurasia Publishing House, 1984.

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: 
2021-2022