Course Overview and Learning Outcomes

Ch 1.1 What Is American Literature?

QUIZ 1.1

Ch 1.2 The Colonial Period: Puritan Voices and Early Narratives

QUIZ 1.2

Ch 1.3 Native American Oral Traditions and Early Written Expression

QUIZ 1.3

Ch 1.4 Reading Literature: Close Reading, Genre, and Form

QUIZ 1.4

Ch 2.1 Enlightenment Ideals and Political Writing

QUIZ 2.1

Ch 2.2 The Literature of Revolution: Paine, Jefferson, and Hamilton

QUIZ 2.2

Ch 2.3 Early American Poetry: Phillis Wheatley and Philip Freneau

QUIZ 2.3

Ch 2.4 The Early Novel: Charles Brockden Brown and Susanna Rowson

QUIZ 2.4

Ch 3.1 American Romanticism: Definitions and Origins

QUIZ 3.1

Ch 3.2 Washington Irving and the Birth of American Fiction

QUIZ 3.2

Ch 3.3 Edgar Allan Poe: Gothic Form and Psychological Depth

QUIZ 3.3

Ch 3.4 Nathaniel Hawthorne and Moral Ambiguity

QUIZ 3.4

Ch 3.5 Herman Melville and the American Epic

QUIZ 3.5

Ch 4.1 Transcendentalist Philosophy: Emerson and the American Scholar

QUIZ 4.1

Ch 4.2 Thoreau: Civil Disobedience and Walden

QUIZ 4.2

Ch 4.3 Margaret Fuller and the Question of Women's Voices

QUIZ 4.3

QUIZ 4.4

Ch 4.4 Abolitionist Literature: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

Ch 5.1 The Rise of Literary Realism

QUIZ 5.1

Ch 5.2 Mark Twain and the American Vernacular

Quiz 5.2

Ch 5.3 Henry James and the Novel of Consciousness

QUIZ 5.3

Ch 5.4 Naturalism: Crane, Norris, and Dreiser

QUIZ 5.4

Ch 5.5 Women's Realism: Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

QUIZ 5.5