Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Readings in American Literature Volume I: 1620–1865 Table of Contents


by Jonathan D. Kantrowitz and Kathi Godiksen

Edited by Patricia F. Braccio and Sarah M. Williams
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Chapter 1: Early American and Colonial Period to 1776 

History of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford ..............................................1
Poems by Anne Bradstreet ..........................................................................................6
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666.
To My Dear and Loving Husband.
From “The Day of Doom” by Michael Wigglesworth ................................................12
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson..................14
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus
Vassa, the African Written by Himself ..................................................................19
An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon ..........27
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin ........................32
Letters from an American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ..............36
The American Crisis by Thomas Paine ....................................................................42

Chapter 2: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary Writers, 1776–1820


Poems by Philip Freneau ..........................................................................................46
The Prison Ship
The Wild Honeysuckle
To a Honey Bee
The Indian Burying-Ground
Eutaw Springs 
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown ......................................................................67
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving ....................................................................70
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ............................................74
Poems by Phillis Wheatley ........................................................................................77
To the King’s Most Excellent Magesty. 1768.
On Being Brought from Africa to America.
On the Death of a Young Lady of Five Years of Age.
An Hymn to the Morning. / An Hymn to the Evening
Ode to Neptune
A Rebus, by I.B. / An Answer to the Rebus by the Author of these Poems. 

Chapter 3- 4 A: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860 - Poets 



From “I Sing the Body Electric” Published in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From “Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie”
The Song of Hiawatha
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1848) from A Fable for Critics

Poems by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides
The Chambered Nautilus
Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier.
Ichabod
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyll
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 
The Raven.
Annabel Lee 

Chapter 3- 4 B: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Fiction 

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe


Chapter 3- 4 C: The Romantic Period, 1820–1860: Slavery 

On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington
by James Russell Lowell

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (aka. Linda Brent)

Our Nig by Harriet E. Wilson

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass



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