Period C: American Literature, Beginnings to 1900

(43 authors, 52+ texts)

Anne Bradstreet, poetry from The Tenth Muse (1650)

Edward Taylor, Poetical Works—Prepartory Meditations (1670s-1690s)
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson (1682)
Sarah Kemble Knight, The Private Journal of a Journey from Boston to New York
in the year 1704 kept by Madam Knight (Written 1704, pub 1825)
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (1741)
Phillis Wheatley, poems (1770s)
Judith Sargent Murray, essays including “On the Equality of the Sexes,” “On the
Domestic Education of Children” (1779)
Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly (1787)
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography (written 1771-1790; pub. 1791, 1818, 1868)
Susanna Rowson, Charlotte Temple (1794 US Printing)
Washington Irving, from The Sketch Book:”The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1819-20)
James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers (1823), or The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie (1827)
David Walker, Appeal in Four Articles (1829, 1830)
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas, An American Slave
(1845)
Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836); essays including “The American Scholar,” “The
Divinity School Address,” and “The Poet”; poems (1830s-1850s)
John Greenleaf Whittier, selected poems (1830s-1850s)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850); selected stories (1840s-1850s)
Edgar Allan Poe, selected poems (1840s); short stories (1840s) [A. G. Pym?]
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851); Selected poetry.
Sojourner Truth, Ar’nt I a Woman? (1851)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
William Wells Brown: Clotel, or The President’s Daughter (1853)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Walt Whitman, selections from Leaves of Grass, including “Song of Myself”
(1855; 1891-92)
Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron-Mills” (1861)
Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1862)
Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons (1862)
Frances E.W. Harper, poems (1850s-1890s); Iola Leroy (1892)
Emily Dickinson, selected poems and letters (1850s-1880s)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871)
Louisa May Alcott, Work (1873 ); selected stories (1850s-1870s)
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (1881) )
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward (1888)
Ida B. Wells, A Red Record (1895)
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets (189 ? ); short stories including “The Open
Boat” (1898); selected poems (1890s)
Charles Chesnutt, short stories from The Wife of His Youth (1899)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899)