The Armchair MA: American Literature
Below you’ll find a list of intended titles, as well as links to my reviews where available!
- Anne Bradstreet: “The Author to her Book”, “To My Dear Children”, “A Letter to her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment”
- Mary Rowlandson: The Soveraignty and Goodness of God…; being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
- Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography
- Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia
- Public: The Federalist Papers
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Nature”, “The American Scholar”, “The Poet”, “Merlin”
- Edgar Allan Poe: “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Imp of the Perverse”, “The Raven”
- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
- Herman Melville: Benito Cereno
- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden
- Walt Whitman: “Song of Myself”, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, “Drum-Taps”
- Emily Dickinson: “Success is counted sweetest”, “I felt a funeral in my brain”, “Because I could not stop for death”, “My life had stood a loaded gun”
- Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth
- Robert Frost: “Mowing”, “The Wood-Pile”, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- T.S. Eliot: “The Wasteland”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender is the Night
- Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
- Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”, “The Lake Isle”, “Canto I”
- Langston Hughes: Weary Blues
- William Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!
- Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Richard Wright: Native Son
- Arthur Miller: The Crucible
- Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
- Allen Ginsberg: Howl, and other poems
- Amiri Baraka: Dutchman
- Thomas Pynchon: Crying of Lot 49
- Gwendolyn Brooks: In the Mecca
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Tony Kushner: Angels in America
