American Literature-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 511
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
12.00
Unit I: 

R.W. Emerson                                                

The American Scholar 

12.00
Unit II: 

Walt Whitman                                               

Passage to India

On the Beach at Night

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Nathaniel Hawthorne                                   

The Scarlet Letter

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Mark Twain                                                    

Life on the Mississippi

The life of Mississippi with The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn

 

12.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

E-resources

https://americanliterature.com/books

http://www.emilydickinson.org/

 

Journals

Studies in American Fiction

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO103.       Understand the cultural history of America

CO104.     Examinethe literary trends in the literature of the age

CO105.     Critically analyse the representative works of eminent American writers, for their themes and issues, style and treatment

CO106.     Be exposed to a thorough and integrated study of literature with a deep, broad, diverse and transdisciplinary perspective and understanding

CO107.     Recognise and summarize impact and intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality.
 

             CO108.Examine the influence of historical context on the formation of local,                  national and global, political as well as social narratives.