Faculty Committee: Giles Gunn, Carl Guttiérez-Jones, Stephanie LeMenager, Mark Maslan, Christopher Newfield, Candace Waid
It is assumed that students taking the qualifying examination in American Literature from 1865 will be familiar not only with the following primary texts but also with the principle critical and interpretive issues concerning these texts and the period as a whole. Students are thus encouraged to read widely in the relevant secondary literature. Figures and selections marked with an asterisk (*) indicate that the relevant material can be found in the Norton Anthology of American Literature, Sixth Edition, Vol. C, D and E (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989). Those marked with a cross (+) indicate material collected in a supplemental reader that will be available for purchase at the desk of the Staff Graduate Adviser.
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Charles Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars
Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
Booker T. Washington* and W.E.B. DuBois*
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Modern Poetry and Poetic Prose
Gertrude Stein*
Ezra Pound*
Robert Frost*
T. S. Eliot*
Hart Crane*
William Carlos Williams*
Wallace Stevens*
Marianne Moore*
H. D.*
Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes*
Claude McKay*
Countee Cullen*
Jean Toomer, Cane
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Richard Wright, Native Son
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge
Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Toni Morrison, Sula
Poetry 1945- (counts as two books)
Elizabeth Bishop*
John Berryman*
Robert Lowell*
Gwendolyn Brooks*
Robert Duncan*
James Merrill*
Robert Creeley*
Allen Ginsberg*
Frank O’Hara*
John Ashbery*
Adrienne Rich*
Sylvia Plath*
Amiri Baraka*
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
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