Reading in the Norton Anthology of American Literature: 1865— Present (shorter edition).
I encourage you to read more than the sparse works by these authors identified here & to possibly mention them in discussion posts.
Approximate Author Works date
Week 1 Walt Whitman Song of Myself Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Week 2 Emily Dickinson Poems Mark Twain Jumping Frog Bret Harte Luck of Roaring Camp Rothfork *Steele essay
Week 3 Ambrose Bierce Owl Creek Bridge Henry James Daisy Miller: a Case Study Art of Fiction Week 4 Sarah Orne Jewett White Heron W.D. Howells Editha Editor’s Study (Harper’s) Week 5 Kate Chopin Desiree’s Baby Story of an Hour Week 6 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Yellow Wallpaper Edith Wharton The Other Two
Week 7 Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie: ch. 1; ch. 3 Stephen Crane Open Boat Jack London Build a Fire Tillie Olsen Here I Stand Ironing
Week 8 Willa Cather Sculptor’s Funeral Sinclair Lewis *Young Man Axelbrod (or) *Willow Walk (read one) John Cheever Swimmer *Essay on regionalism (Rothfork) Week 9 Robert Frost Mending Wall Out, Out Ezra Pound poems T.S. Eliot Wasteland Prufrock Sylvia Plath Daddy
Week 10 Zora Hurston How It Feels Sweat Langston Hughes poems James Baldwin Meet the Man Eudora Welty Petrified Man Week 11 F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited Winter Dreams Ernest Hemingway Hills Like White Elephants
Week 12 Faulkner Rose for Emily Barn Burning Steinbeck Chrysanthemums
Week 13 Flannery O’Connor Good Man Country People Raymond Carver Cathedral
Week 14 Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman John Updike Separating *A & P Billy Collins poems Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering
Week 15 Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior Li-Young Lee poems Leslie Silko Lullaby Joy Harjo poems Edward Abbey Havasu Louise Erdrich Fleur Sherman Alexie poems
*Not in the Norton text; see “supporting course material”
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