All required readings are from the Norton Anthology of American Literature, as indicated above. I will provide you with selected fragments on the Moodle platform.

Literary histories:

Elliott, Emory, gen. ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. Columbia University Press, 1988.

Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Blackwell, 2004.

Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. Routledge, 1991.

Other literary sources:

Bercovitch, Sacvan, gen. ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 1: 1590-1820. Cambridge UP, 1994.

---, gen. ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. 2: Prose Writing 1820-1865. Cambridge UP, 1995.

Secondary texts on the web:

Voice of the Shuttle: American Literature - http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2739

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html

Research and study guide for American literature by professor Paul Reuben (California State University)

Primary texts on the web:

Project Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.org/

The Internet Archive - http://archive.org/details/texts

Open Library - http://openlibrary.org/

The Poetry Foundation - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/

Further references will be provided on individual authors throughout the course.