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LIT 2010-01

American Literature from 1865 to Present

Spring 2008

 

Unit 1 Authors and Assignments

 

Jan. 15, 17

Emily Dickinson               

“I never lost as much but twice”
”Some keep the Sabbath going to Church”
”Wild Nights – Wild Nights”
”Because I could not stop for Death”
”Much Madness is divinest Sense”
”Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”

1201

1203

1205
1214

1216

1221

 

Mark Twain

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

1273

Jan. 22,

Henry James

“Daisy Miller: A Study”

1491

 

Kate Chopin

“The Storm”
”Desiree’s Baby”

1611
1615

Jan. 24

Booker T. Washington

“Up from Slavery”

1630

 

Edith Wharton

“Roman Fever”

1710

Jan. 29

Stephen Crane

The Open Boat

1779

 

Theodore Dreiser

Sister Carrie

1763