Fundamentos de la Literatura Norteamericana
Session 2024-2025

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
 
 

                                    MARK TWAIN

Subject of discussion in class:
   - Mark Twain’s Double Vision of the World. 
   - Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. 
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All these bibliographical references can be found at the Universidad de La Laguna 
Central Library (Guajara Campus):
- Levy, Andrew. "The Boy Murderers: What Mark Twain and Huckleberry Finn Really
Teach." The Missouri Review 32.2 (Summer 2009): 42-58.
- Nissen, Axel. "A Tramp at Home: Huckleberry Finn, Romantic Friendship, and the Homeless
Man." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.1 (June 2005): 57-86.
- Quirk, Tom. "The Realism of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Cambridge
Companion to American Reaism and Naturalism. Ed. Donald Pizer. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
138-153.
- Scharnhorst, Gary, ed. Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain. Tuscaloosa:
U of Alabama P,  2009.
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Please, visit these sites for further information:
 - http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/
 - http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/huchompg.html

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