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Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
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  Literatura Norteamericana 1
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1. Literature of the (Pre-)Colonial and Republican periods: 1620-1820

INTRODUCTION to the historical and literary context: The Native Americans as The First Peoples; Pilgrims’ arrival; Puritan religion; interethnic and other fights (e.g. Salem’s “witch hunt”); etc.

1.1. NATIVE-AMERICAN ORATURE (selected stories)

1.2. HISTORICAL ESSAY: John Smith: General History of Virginia (1624) (selected fragments)

1.3. POETRY (I): Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

1.4. CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE: Mary Rowlandson: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) (selected fragments)

1.5. DECLARATION (I): Thomas Jefferson et al.: “The Declaration of Independence” (1776)



2. Romanticism and beyond (1820-1865)


2.1. HISTORICAL NOVEL (I): Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter (selected chapters) (1850)

2.2. THE GOTHIC STORY (I): Edgar Allan Poe: “The Black Cat” (1843)

2.3. SLAVE NARRATIVE: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (selected fragments) (1845)

2.4. DECLARATION (II): Elizabeth Cady Stanton et al.: “The Declaration of Sentiments” (1848); Sojourner Truth: “Ain’t I a Woman” (1851)



3. Realism and beyond (1865-)

3.1. HISTORICAL NOVEL (II): Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (selected chapters) (1884)

3.2. POETRY (II): Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

3.3. POETRY (III): Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

3.4. THE GOTHIC STORY (II): Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
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