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Introduction to Classics of American Literature
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Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography — The First American Story
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Washington Irving — The First American Storyteller
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday — America's Coming of Age
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Emerson Today — Architect of American Values
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Emerson Tomorrow — Deconstructing Culture and Self
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Henry David Thoreau — Countercultural Hero
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Thoreau — Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire
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Walden — Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Poe — Ghost Writer
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Poe's Legacy — The Self as “haunted Palace”
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past
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The Scarlet Letter — Puritan Romance
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Hawthorne's “A” — Interpretation and Semiosis
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The Scarlet Letter — Political Tract or Psychological Study?
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Hawthorne Our Contemporary
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Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick
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The Biggest Fish Story of Them All
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Ahab and the White Whale
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Moby-Dick — Tragedy of Perspective
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Melville's “benito Cereno” — American (Mis) Adventure at Sea
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“benito Cereno” — Theater of Power or Power of Theater?
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Walt Whitman — The American Bard Appears
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Whitman — Poet of the Body
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Whitman — Poet of the City
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Whitman — Poet of Death
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The Whitman Legacy
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Uncle Tom's Cabin — The Unread Classic
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Stowe's Representation of Slavery
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Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Emily Dickinson — in and Out of Nature
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Dickinson's Poetry — Language and Consciousness
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Dickinson — Devotee of Death
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Dickinson — "Amherst's Madame de Sade"
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Dickinson's Legacy
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer — American Paradise Regained
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Huckleberry Finn — The Banned Classic
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Huckleberry Finn — a Child's Voice, a Child's Vision
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Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan
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Mark Twain's Pudd'Nhead Wilson — Black and White Charade
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Henry James and the Novel of Perception
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The Turn of the Screw — Do You Believe in Ghosts?
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Turning the Screw of Interpretation
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Stephen Crane and the Literature of War
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The Red Badge of Courage — Brave New World
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Stephen Crane — Scientist of Human Behavior
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman — War Against Patriarchy
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“the Yellow Wallpaper” — Descent Into Hell or Free at Last?
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Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England
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Robert Frost — “at Home in the Metaphor”
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Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth
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T.S. Eliot — Unloved Modern Classic
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T.S. Eliot — “the Waste Land” and Beyond
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(feat. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby — American Romance)
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The Great Gatsby — a Story of Lost Illusions?
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Fitzgerald's Triumph — Writing the American Dream
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Ernest Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises — Novel of the Lost Generation
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The Sun Also Rises — Spiritual Quest
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Ernest Hemingway — Wordsmith
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Hemingway's the Garden of Eden — Female Desire Unleashed
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The Garden of Eden — Combat Zone
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William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury — The Idiot's Tale
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The Sound and the Fury — Failed Rites of Passage
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The Sound and the Fury — Signifying Nothing?
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Absalom, Absalom! — Civil War Epic
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Absalom, Absalom! — The Language of Love
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Absalom, Absalom! — The Overpass to Love
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The Grapes of Wrath — American Saga
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John Steinbeck — Poet of the Little Man
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The Grapes of Wrath — Reconceiving Self and Family
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Invisible Man — Black Bildungsroman
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Invisible Man — Reconceiving History and Race
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Invisible Man — “what Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue? ”
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Eugene O'Neill — Great God of American Theater
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Long Day's Journey Into Night — There's No Place Like Home
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Tennessee Williams — Managing Libido
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A Streetcar Named Desire — The Death of Romance
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Death of a Salesman — Death of an Ethos?
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Death of a Salesman — Tragedy of the American Dream
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Toni Morrison's Beloved — Dismembering and Remembering
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Beloved — a Story of “thick Love”
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Beloved — Morrison's Writing of the Body
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Conclusion to Classics of American Literature