American Literature Course - Lit 112A
The Authors
The links below provide information on the authors whose writings have been assigned for Lit 112A. Authors are presented in the same order as they appear on the course syllabus (see "Calendar" for page numbers and dates of assigned readings).
 
I. Early American Perspectives--Before and After First Contact

Native American Oral Narratives/Poetry American Literature Course - Lit 112A Christopher Columbus American Literature Course - Lit 112A Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca American Literature Course - Lit 112A Don Antonio de Otermin American Literature Course - Lit 112A Pueblo Revolt Narratives (Hopi) American Literature Course - Lit 112A John Smith American Literature Course - Lit 112A Thomas Morton American Literature Course - Lit 112A William Bradford American Literature Course - Lit 112A Handsome Lake (Seneca) American Literature Course - Lit 112A Mary White Rowlandson American Literature Course - Lit 112A Mary French

 
II. Colonial and Christian Perspectives

Anne Bradstreet American Literature Course - Lit 112A The Bay Psalm Book American Literature Course - Lit 112A The New England Primer American Literature Course - Lit 112A Cotton Mather American Literature Course - Lit 112A Jonathan Edwards American Literature Course - Lit 112A Sarah Kemble Knight American Literature Course - Lit 112A Ebenezer Cook American Literature Course - Lit 112A Annis Boudinot Stockton American Literature Course - Lit 112A Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson American Literature Course - Lit 112A Milcah Martha Moore American Literature Course - Lit 112A Sarah Wentworth Morton American Literature Course - Lit 112A Phillis Wheatley American Literature Course - Lit 112A Jupiter Hammon American Literature Course - Lit 112A Olaudah Equiano American Literature Course - Lit 112A Fray Carlos Jose Delgado American Literature Course - Lit 112A Francisco Palou

 
III. Perspectives on Revolution and Enlightenment

Benjamin Franklin American Literature Course - Lit 112A J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur American Literature Course - Lit 112A Thomas Paine American Literature Course - Lit 112A Thomas Jefferson American Literature Course - Lit 112A "Patriot" and "Loyalist" Songs American Literature Course - Lit 112A Phillip Freneau American Literature Course - Lit 112A Joel Barlow American Literature Course - Lit 112A Susanna Haswell Rowson

 
IV. Perspectives on American Identity, Society, and Culture

Ralph Waldo Emerson American Literature Course - Lit 112A Henry David Thoreau American Literature Course - Lit 112A Nathaniel Hawthorne American Literature Course - Lit 112A Sarah Margaret Fuller American Literature Course - Lit 112A Frederick Douglass American Literature Course - Lit 112A John Greenleaf Whittier American Literature Course - Lit 112A Harriet Beecher Stowe American Literature Course - Lit 112A Abraham Lincoln American Literature Course - Lit 112A Sealth (Chief Seattle, Duwamish) American Literature Course - Lit 112A Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht (Chief Joseph, Nez Perce), American Literature Course - Lit 112A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 
V. American Imagination Takes Flight

Edgar Allan Poe American Literature Course - Lit 112A Walt Whitman American Literature Course - Lit 112A Emily Dickinson

 
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