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BLOCK 2: AMERICAN LITERATURE

SYLLABUS MAIN PAGE

Section 1: EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. Introduction

2. Founding Fathers of America

Section 2: THE AMERICAN ROMANTIC PERIOD

1. Washington Irving (1783-1859)

2. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

3. William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

5. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

7. Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

8. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

9. Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815 -1897)

10. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

11. Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895)

12. Herman Melville (1819-1891)

13. Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

14. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

15. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Section 3: THE AMERICAN REALIST PERIOD

1. Mark Twain (1835-1910)

2. Henry James (1843-1916)

3. Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

4. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

5. F.J. Turner (1861-1932)

6. Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

7. Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

8. Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

9. Jack London (1876-1916)

10. John Dos Passos (1896-1970)

Section 4: THE AMERICAN MODERNIST PERIOD

NOVELISTS

1. Willa Cather (1873-1947)

2. Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

3. Pearl S Buck (1892-1973)

4. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

5. William Faulkner (1897-1962)

6. Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

7. Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)

POETS

1. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

2. Robert Frost (1874-1963)

3. Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

4. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

5. Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

6. H.D. (1886-1961)

7. E.E. Cummings (1894-1962)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

2. Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)

SHORT STORY WRITERS

1. O. Henry (1862-1910)

Section 5: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

NOVELISTS

1. John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

2. John O’Hara (1905-1970)

3. William S Burroughs (1914-1997)

4. Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

5. JD Salinger (1919-2010)

6. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)

7. Joseph Heller (1923-1999)

8. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)

9. Truman Capote (1924-1984)

11. John Updike (1932-2009)

12. Philip Roth (1933-2018)

13. Marge Piercy (1936-)

14. Thomas Pynchon (1937-)

POETS

1. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

2. Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

3. Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

5. Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

6. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

2. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

3. Edward Albee (1928-2016)

Section 6: AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

1. Solomon Northup (c. 1807-1864)

2. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

3. Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

4. Richard Wright (1908-1960)

5. Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)

6. James Baldwin (1924-1987)

7. Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

8. Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965)

9. Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

10. Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)

11. Alice Walker (1944-)

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