English 346 texts

English 346
Survey of American Literature
1492–1865

Texts

PRIMARY TEXT:

Paul Lauter, ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS:

Christopher Columbus, First and Third Voyages (from the Heath Anthology)
Seneca, "The Origin of Stories" (from the Heath Anthology)
from Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
from James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Intro and ch.16 and ch. 32-33.
Differences between Cooper's novel and the Hollywood film adaptation. Watch the movie before looking at this site.
from Tracy K. Smith's Duende. Read all, but focus on part four of "History" and, as you read part four, also look at Smith's Notes for it.
Rita Dove's poetic character sketches of antebellum African-American intellectuals.
Responses to Walt Whitman by Langston Hughes and Ezra Pound.