PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
An Ongoing Project

© Paul P. Reuben Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
California State University, Stanislaus

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Table of Contents

Chapters: 1 (Puritanism) 2 (The Age of Reason) 3 (Romanticism) 4 (Transcendentalism) 5 (Realism) 6 (Naturalism) 7 (Early 20th C. and Modernism) 8 (American Drama) 9 (Harlem Renaissance) 10 (Late 20th C. and Postmodernism) Appendices

Chapter 1: Early American Literature to 1700

Selected Bibliography Introduction The Bay Psalm Book & The New England Primer Native American Oral Literature

William Bradford Anne Bradstreet Anne Hutchinson Cotton Mather Thomas Morton Mary Rowlandson Samuel Sewall

Thomas Shepard John Smith Edward Taylor Michael Wigglesworth John Williams Roger Williams John Winthrop

Chapter 2: Early American Literature 1700-1800

Selected Bibliography Introduction John Adams and Abigail Adams Elizabeth Ashbridge Charles Brockden Brown William Hill Brown William Byrd The Connecticut Wits

St. Jean De Crevecoeur Jonathan Edwards Olaudah Equiano Hannah Webster Foster Benjamin Franklin Philip Freneau Jupiter Hammon Thomas Jefferson Sarah Kemble Knight

Judith Sargent Murray Samuel Occum Thomas Paine Francisco Palou Susanna Rowson Royall Tyler Mercy Otis Warren Phillis Wheatley John Woolman

Chapter 3: Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Romanticism

Selected Bibliography Introduction William Apess Elias Boudinot William Wells Brown William Cullen Bryant Alice and Phoebe Cary James Fenimore Cooper George Copway Davy Crockett Maria Susanna Cummins Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Martin Robison Delany Frederick Douglass Fanny Fern Josiah Gregg

Nathaniel Hawthorne Caroline Lee Hentz Oliver Wendell Holmes Washington Irving Harriet A. Jacobs Caroline Kirkland Henry Clay Lewis Lewis and Clark Expedition George Lippard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell Herman Melville Anna Cora Mowatt John Neal Mordecai Noah Frederick Law Olmsted

James Kirke Paulding Edgar Allan Poe John Rollin Ridge Rebecca Rush Catharine Maria Sedgwick Lydia Sigourney William Gilmore Simms Harriet Prescott Spofford Elizabeth Stoddard Harriet Beecher Stowe Alexis de Tocqueville Frederick Goddard Tuckerman David Walker Susan and Anna Warner Frank J. Webb Harriet E. Adams Wilson

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Chapter 4: Nineteenth Century to 1865 and Transcendentalism

Selected Bibliography Introduction The Anti-Slavery Movement The Utopian Movement The Women's Rights Movement Amos Bronson Alcott Susan B. Anthony Orestes Augustus Brownson William Ellery Channing William Henry Channing Mary Boykin Chesnut Lydia Maria Child

James Freeman Clarke Christopher Pearse Cranch Caroline Dall Emily Dickinson John Sullivan Dwight Ralph Waldo Emerson Margaret Fuller William Lloyd Garrison Horace Greeley Sarah & Angelina Grimke Frederick Henry Hedge Julia Ward Howe

Abraham Lincoln James Marsh Theodore Parker Elizabeth Palmer Peabody Wendell Phillips George Ripley and Brook Farm Elizabeth Cady Stanton Henry David Thoreau Sojourner Truth Jones Very Walt Whitman John Greenleaf Whittier

Chapter 5: Late Nineteenth Century and Realism

Selected Bibliography Introduction Henry Adams Louisa May Alcott Horatio Alger María Amparo Ruiz de Burton George Washington Cable

Rebecca Harding Davis Alice Dunbar-Nelson Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Bret Harte Thomas Wentworth Higginson Joel Chandler Harris William Dean Howells Helen Hunt Jackson

Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett Grace King Sidney Lanier José Martí Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Mark Twain Constance Fenimore Woolson

Chapter 6: Late Nineteenth Century: 1890-1910: Naturalism

Selected Bibliography Introduction Mary Antin Ambrose Bierce Nellie Bly Charles Waddell Chesnutt Kate Chopin

Ina Coolbrith Stephen Crane Theodore Dreiser Paul Laurence Dunbar Charles Alexander Eastman Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Hamlin Garland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Jack London Frank Norris Booker T. Washington

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Chapter 7: Early Twentieth Century: Modernism

Selected Bibliography Introduction Conrad Aiken Sherwood Anderson Mary Austin Djuna Barnes Stephen Vincent Benét John Peale Bishop Black Elk Louise Bogan Randolph Bourne Kay Boyle Louise Bryant Pearl S. Buck Edgar Rice Burroughs Witter Bynner James Branch Cabell Willa Cather Erskine Caldwell Hart Crane E. E. Cummings H.D. John Dos Passos Richard Eberhart T. S. Eliot James T. Farrel

William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert Francis Robert Frost Ellen Glasgow Michael Gold Emma Goldman Caroline Gordon Ernest Hemingway Robert E. Howard Robinson Jeffers Ring Lardner Sinclair Lewis Vachel Lindsay H. P. Lovecraft Amy Lowell Mina Loy Archibald Macleish Edgar Lee Masters Mary McCarthy D'arcy McNickle H. L. Mencken Edna St. Vincent Millay Marianne Moore Mourning Dove Dorothy Parker

Katherine Anne Porter Ezra Pound John Crowe Ransom Saunders Redding John Reed Charles Reznikoff Elizabeth Madox Roberts Edwin Arlington Robinson Carl Sandburg William Saroyan Upton Sinclair Gertrude Stein John Steinbeck Wallace Stevens Allen Tate Sara Teasdale James Thurber Robert Penn Warren Nathanael West Edith Wharton William Carlos Williams Thomas Wolfe Richard Wright Elinor Wylie Anzia Yezierska Louis Zukofsky

 

Chapter 8: American Drama

Selected Bibliography Introduction Zoe Akins Edward Albee Maxwell Anderson George Axelrod Philip Barry Dion Boucicault Paddy Chayefsky Alice Childress William Dunlap Edna Ferber Charles Fuller

William Gibson Susan Glaspell Paul Green A. R. Gurney Lorraine Hansberry Lillian Hellman Sidney Howard William Inge George Kaufman David Mamet Terrence McNally Arthur Miller Anna Cora Mowatt Clifford Odets

Eugene O'Neill Elmer RiceElmer Rice Willis Richardson Ntozake Shange Sam Shepard Neil Simon Anna Deavere Smith Royall Tyler Luis Valdez Wendy Wasserstein Thorton Wilder Tennessee Williams August Wilson

Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance

Selected Bibliography Introduction Research and Study Topics Gwendolyn Bennett Blues Lyrics Marita Bonner Arna Bontemps Sterling A Brown Countee Cullen W. E. B. Du Bois Jessie Redmon Fauset

Rudolph Fisher Marcus Garvey Angelina Weld Grimke Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Charles Spurgeon Johnson James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Alain Locke Claude McKay Richard Bruce Nugent

Mary White Ovington Willis Richardson George Schuyler Anne Spencer Wallace Thurman Jean Toomer Carl Van Vechten Eric Walrond Dorothy West Walter White

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Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century and Postmodernism

Selected Bibliography Introduction James Agee Sherman Alexie Dorothy Allison A. R. Ammons Rudolfo Anaya Maya Angelou Gloria Anzaldúa John Ashbery James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara Amiri Baraka John Barth Donald Barthelme Saul Bellow John Berryman Elizabeth Bishop Robert Bly Paul Bowles Ray Bradbury Richard Brautigan Gwendolyn Brooks Joseph Bruchac Charles Bukowski Carlos Bulosan William S. Burroughs Truman Capote Raymond Carver Raymond Chandler John Cheever Frank Chin John Ciardi Sandra Cisneros Lucille Clifton Robert Creeley Victor Hernandez Cruz Don DeLillo James Dickey Joan Didion E. L. Doctorow Rita Dove Robert Duncan Ralph Ellison Louise Erdrich Mari Evans William Everson Lawrence Ferlinghetti Allen Ginsberg

Nikki Giovanni Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Michael S. Harper E. Lynn Harris Robert Hayden Robert Heinlein Joseph Heller Tony Hillerman John Hersey Ronaldo Hinojosa-Smith Lawson Inada Randall Jarrell Gish Jen June Jordan Jack Kerouac Ken Kesey Maxine Hong Kingston Galway Kinnell Carolyn Kizer Etheridge Knight Yusef Komunyakaa Maxine Kumin Stanley Kunitz Harper Lee Li-Young Lee Ursula K. Le Guin Denise Levertov Ira Levin Philip Levine Audre Lorde Robert Lowell Norman Mailer Bernard Malamud Paule Marshall Cormac McCarthy Frank McCourt Carson McCullers James Merrill Josephine Miles Henry Miller N. Scott Momaday Pat Mora Toni Morrison Bharati Mukherjee Vladimir Nabokov Howard Nemerov Lorine Niedecker Joyce Carol Oates Tim O'Brien Flannery O'Connor Frank O'Hara Tellie Olsen Charles Olson

George Oppen Simon Ortiz Cynthia Ozick Grace Paley Ann Petry Pedro Pietri Sylvia Plath Thomas Pynchon Ayn Rand John Crowe Ransom Ishmael Reed Kenneth Rexroth Anne Rice Adrienne Rich Tomás Rivera Richard Rodriguez Theodore Roethke Wendy Rose Philip Roth Muriel Rukeyser J. D. Salinger Sonia Sanchez Anne Sexton Leslie Marmon Silko W. D. Snodgrass Gary Snyder Susan Sontag Gary Soto Terry Southern William Stafford Wallace Stegner William Styron Gay Talese Amy Tan Hunter S. Thompson Melvin B. Tolson John Updike Gore Vidal Helena Maria Viramontes Gerald Vizenor Kurt Vonnegut Alice Walker Margaret Walker David Foster Wallace James Welch Eudora Welty John Wideman Richard Wilbur C. K. Williams Tom Wolfe James Wright Hisaye Yamamoto Richard Yates

 

Appendices

Appendix A: Useful Resources for Research Appendix B: Minorities and Women Studies: African -American Studies Native-American Studies Asian-American Studies Gay & Lesbian Studies Hispanic & Mexican-American Studies Jewish-American Studies Women Studies Appendix C: American Fiction

Appendix D: Writing Assignments Appendix D: Writing Assignments Appendix E: The Theme of Alienation and Initiation and the Immigrant Experience Appendix F: Elements of Poetry Appendix G: Elements of Fiction Appendix H: Elements of Drama Appendix I: The MLA Style Appendix J: Research Topics Appendix K: American Literary History & Theory Appendix L: The Frontier in American Literature

Appendix M: Film Criticism and American Literature Appendix N: American Gothic in Literature Appendix O: Selected Studies in American Poetry Appendix P: American Literature and California Appendix Q: American Folklore Appendix R: American Humor, Satire, and Wit Appendix S: The American Dream Appendix T: Manifest Destiny Appendix U: Nature, Ecocriticism, & Ecofeminism Appendix V: The American City in Literature and Culture

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