19th Century American Literature
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Allcott, Louisa May. Little Women
_____. Hospital Sketches
Alger, Horatio. Ragged Dick.
Apess, William. A Son of the Forest
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward
Blackhawk. Life of Blackhawk.
Bierce, Ambrose. 鈥淭he Damned Thing,鈥� 鈥淎n Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge鈥�
Robert Montgomery Bird. Boucicault, Dion. The Octoroon.
Brown, Charles Brockden. Arthur Mervyn
Brown, William Wells. Clotel
Bryant, William Cullen. 鈥淎braham Lincoln,鈥� 鈥淭hanatopsis,鈥� 鈥淭he Yellow Violet,鈥� 鈥淚nscription for the Entrance to a Wood,鈥� "I Cannot Forget with what Fervid Devotion," 鈥淭o a Waterfowl,鈥� 鈥淭he Burial-Place,鈥� 鈥淎 Fragment,鈥� 鈥淕reen River,鈥� 鈥淎 Winter Piece,鈥� 鈥淭he Rivulet,鈥� 鈥淪ummer Wind,鈥� 鈥淎utumn Woods,鈥� 鈥淎fter a Tempest,鈥� 鈥淪onnets: Midsummer, October, November,鈥� 鈥淭he Prairies,鈥� 鈥淭he Fountain,鈥� 鈥淭he Painted Cup,鈥� 鈥淭o the Fringed Gentian,鈥� 鈥淭o Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe鈥�
Cable, George Washington. The Grandissimes
Cary, Alice and Phoebe. Poems.
Chesnutt, Charles. The Conjure Woman
_____. The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
Child, Lydia Maria. Hobomok, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening.
Clemens, Samuel [Mark Twain]. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
_____. Puddin鈥檋ead Wilson
Cummins, Maria. The Lamplighter.
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers
_____. The Last of the Mohicans
_____. Satanstoe
Crane, Stephen. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
_____. The Red Badge of Courage
Davis, Rebecca Harding. "Life in the Iron Mills"
DeForest, William. Miss Ravenal鈥檚 Conversion from Secession to Loyalty
Delany, Martin. Blake or the Huts of America.
Dickinson, Emily. selected poems
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
_____. 鈥淭he Heroic Slave,鈥� 鈥淲hat to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?鈥�
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. The Sport of the Gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 鈥淣ature,鈥� 鈥淭he Rhodora,鈥� 鈥淓ach and All,鈥� 鈥淐ompensation,鈥� 鈥淭he Snow-Storm,鈥� 鈥淭he Problem,鈥� 鈥淯riel,鈥� 鈥淗amatreya,鈥� 鈥淥de,鈥� 鈥淒ays,鈥� 鈥淭he Sphinx,鈥� 鈥淏acchus,鈥� 鈥淢erlin,鈥� 鈥淏rahma,鈥� 鈥淣ature,鈥� 鈥淭he American Scholar,鈥� 鈥淭he Transcendentalist," "Self-Reliance," 鈥淐ircles,鈥� The Poet,鈥� 鈥淓xperience,鈥� 鈥淢ontaigne,鈥� 鈥�1851 Address,鈥� 鈥淔ate,鈥� 鈥淚llusions鈥�
Wilkins, Mary. A New England Nun and Other Stories
Fern, Fanny. Ruth Hall.
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes
_____. Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Garland, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads.
Griggs, Sutton. Imperium in Imperio.
Harper, Frances. Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted
Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter
_____. The Blithedale Romance
_____. The Rise of Silas Lapham
_____. 鈥淢y Kinsman, Major Molineux,鈥� 鈥淵oung Goodman Brown,鈥� 鈥淭he Minister鈥檚 Black Veil,鈥� 鈥淭he Maypole of Marymount,鈥� 鈥淭he Birth-mark,鈥� 鈥淭he Artist,鈥� 鈥淓gotism,鈥� 鈥淏anquet,鈥� 鈥淩appaccini鈥檚 Daughter,鈥� 鈥淓than Brand鈥�
Howells, William Dean.
_____. A Modern Instance
Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book
Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
James, Henry. The American
_____. The Portrait of a Lady
Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. 鈥淭he Song of Hiawatha鈥�
Lowell, James Russell. 鈥淥de Recited at the Harvard Commemoration,鈥� A Fable for Critics, selections from The Biglow Papers
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick
_____. 鈥淏artleby, the Scrivener,鈥� 鈥淏enito Cereno,鈥� 鈥淏illy Budd,鈥� 鈥淭he Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids,鈥� 鈥淏attle-Pieces鈥�
Menken, Adah Isaacs. Infelicia.
Norris, Frank. McTeague
Osgood, Frances Sargent. 鈥淭he Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre鈥�
_____. A Wreath of Flowers from New England.
Page, Thomas Nelson. In Ole Virginia.
Poe, Edgar Allan. "Al Aaraaf,鈥� 鈥淩omance,鈥� 鈥淒reams,鈥� 鈥淭o Science,鈥� 鈥淭o Helen,鈥� 鈥淪ilence,鈥� 鈥淭he Raven,鈥� 鈥淯lalume,鈥� 鈥淧oetic Principle,鈥� 鈥淟igeia," "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "William Wilson," "Maelstrom,鈥� 鈥淭he Purloined Letter,鈥� "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Philosophy of Composition"
_____. Eureka
Ridge, John Rollin. Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murietta.
Ruiz de Burton, Maria. The Squatter and the Don.
Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Janee Johnston Schoolcraft.
Sedwick, Catherine Maria. Hope Leslie
Sejour, Victor. 鈥淭he Mulatto.鈥�
Sigourney, Lydia. Collected Poems.
Simms, William Gilmore. The Yemasee.
Stone, John Augustus. Metamora.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom鈥檚 Cabin
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, "Walk to Wachusett," "Resistance to Civil Government [Civil Disobedience]," "A Plea for Captain John Brown," 鈥淪lavery in Massachusetts,鈥� selected poems
Tanner, John. The Falcon.
Walker, David. David Walker鈥檚 Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Warner, Susan. Wide, Wide World.
Whittier, James Greenleaf. 鈥淭he Hunters of Men,鈥� 鈥淭he Farewell,鈥� 鈥淎t Port Royal,鈥� 鈥淧roem,鈥� 鈥淪ongs of Labor鈥�, 鈥淒edication,鈥� 鈥淪ong of Slaves in the Desert,鈥� 鈥淚chabod,鈥� 鈥淭he Haschish,鈥� 鈥淪kipper Ireson's Ride,鈥� 鈥淪now-Bound,鈥� 鈥淎mong the Hills,鈥� 鈥淭elling the Bees,鈥� 鈥淢y Playmate,鈥� 鈥淲hat the Birds Said,鈥� 鈥淢y Triumph鈥�
Whitman, Walt Leaves of Grass (1855), 鈥淐rossing Brooklyn Ferry,鈥� 鈥淥ut of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking,鈥� Drum-Taps, 鈥淲hen Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,鈥� 鈥淧assage to India,鈥� 鈥淧ioneers,鈥� Democratic Vistas
Wilson, Harriet. Our Nig.