American Literature Anthology

Reading 1:  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur: Letters from an American Farmer. Letter III: What is an American? 

Reading 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson:  Self-Reliance: Thoughts on Nonconformity

Reading 3: Henry David Thoreau: Resistance to Civil Government

Reading 4: Walt Whitman: Preface to Leaves of Grass and Select Poems from Book III

Reading 5: Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Life among the Lowly, Chapters VII and IX

Reading 6: Kate Chopin: At the Cadian Ball and The Storm 

Reading 7: Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery, Chapter I. A Slave among Slaves and The Atlanta Exposition

Reading 8: W.E.B. Du Bois: Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others

Reading 9: Zitakal Ša (a.k.a. Gertrude Simmon Bonnin):  From Impressions of an Indian Childhood and School Days of an Indian Girl

Reading 10: Zora Neale Hurston: How It Feels to Be Colored Me

Reading 11: (Web Available Anthology Reading) Flannery O’Connor: Good Country People

Reading 12: (Web Available Anthology Reading) William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily

Reading 13: (Web Available Anthology Reading) John Steinbeck: Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath Chapter 11-12 and 15 

Reading 14: (Web Available Anthology Reading):  Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

Conclusion