American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
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 poets and their individual traits

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

R.W. Emerson  

The American Scholar

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Walt Whitman   

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Nathaniel Hawthorne    

The Scarlet Letter

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

 Mark Twain   

Huckleberry Finn

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
  • Oliver : An Anthology : American Literature 1890-1965
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: 
2014-2015