American Literature (EMEN22) - I Year

 ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024 (EVEN)

I B.A English – Semester II

 

Core IV – American Literature (EMEN22)

 

Syllabus

Unit I

Background: The First Frontier (Settlement of America) – The Puritans and the spread of Puritanism in America

Romanticism: Optimist and Pessimist – The Flowering of New England – The Transcendentalists – Writers of the South – Indian thought in Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman – Sacred Writings of the East.

 

Unit II

Walt Whitman                -        O Captain! My Captain!

Robert Frost                             -        Birches

Edgar Allan Poe              -        The Raven

Emily Dickinson             -        Because I Could Not Stop for Death

 

Unit III

Martin Luther King Jr.    -        I Have a Dream

Ralph Waldo Emerson   -        Self Reliance

 

Unit IV

Tennessee Williams        -        The Glass Menagerie

 

Unit V

Nathaniel Hawthorne      -        The Scarlet Letter

 

Text Books

·        American Literature of the 19th century – Ed. Fisher Samuelson and Reninger Baid

·        A Brief History of American Literature by Richard Gray

·        Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

 

INTERNAL PORTIONS

First Internal – Unit I & II

Second Internal – Unit I & III

Third Internal – Unit IV & V

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