University Library: LIT/265: Survey of American Literature Since 1860: Week 1

Literature of a Changing Nation

Readings

Budd, L. J. (2018). Realism and naturalism in literature. Encyclopedia of American Studies, n/a.
Castiglia, C. (2016). Revolution is a fiction: The way we read (early american literature) now. Early American Literature, 51(2), 397-418,537.
Hager, C., & Marrs, C. (2013). Against 1865: Reperiodizing the nineteenth century. J19, 1(2), 259-284,462.
Lawson-Peebles, R. (2003). Chapter 6: Prospects for the great republic: 1865-1880. American Literature Before 1880, 237-275.

Henry James

Theodore Dreiser

Dreiser, T. (2006). Sister Carrie: A Novel. In Sister Carrie: A Novel. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. (Original work published 1900)

Stephan Crane

Crane, S. (2009). The Red Badge of Courage, Harvard University Press, ProQuest Ebook Central,.

Jack London

London, J. (2016). White fang, Open Road Media.

Mark Twain

Bret Harte

Harte, B. (1870). Plain language from truthful James. Poems, 79.

Ambrose Bierce

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