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Syllabus
1. Literary Culture in the Colonies.
- Mary Rowlandson.
2. The Puritan Background: Writings.
- Anne
Bradstreet.
3. Revolution and the Republic.
- Philip
Freneau.
- Benjamin
Franklin.
4. The Early Prominence of American Literature:
1790-1850.
- Washington Irving.
- James Fenimore.
- Edgar
Allan Poe.
5. The American Renaissance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Henry David Thoreau..
- Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
- Herman
Melville.
6. New American Verse in the 19th Century.
- Emily
Dickinson.
- Walt
Whitman.
7. Late 19th-Century American Fiction.
- Mark
Twain.
. Kate
Chopin.
General Bibliography
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THE EARLY PROMINENCE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE 1780-1950
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Subjects of discussion in class:
- The Facts of His Life.
- Poe’s Literary Theory.
- Poe’s Short Stories.
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All these bibliographical references can be found
at the Universidad de La Laguna
Central Library (Guajara Campus):
- Kanpp, Bettina L. Edgar Allan Poe. New
York: Frederick Ungar, 1984.
- Knight, Stephen. "...his rich ideality": Edgar
Allan Poe's Detectives." Form and Ideology
in Crime Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1980.
39-66.
- Tallack, Douglas. The Nineteenth-Century
American Short Story. London: Routledge, 1993.
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Please, visit these sites for further information:
- http://poestories.com/
- http://www.eapoe.org/
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