Chapter 1

19th Century American Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

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Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Themes of Puritanism, Guilt, and Redemption

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Race, Slavery, and the American South

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American Realism vs Romanticism

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Chapter 2

Transcendentalism and Early Poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 'The American Scholar' or 'Self-Reliance'

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Henry David Thoreau: Walden (Selections)

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Walt Whitman: 'Song of Myself' - Democratic Vistas

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Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems

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Themes of Nature, Individualism, and Death

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Chapter 3

20th Century American Fiction

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

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Toni Morrison: Beloved

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The American Dream and its Disillusionment

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African-American Experience and Memory

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Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative Techniques

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Chapter 4

Modern American Poetry

Robert Frost: 'The Road Not Taken', 'Stopping by Woods'

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Langston Hughes: Harlem Renaissance poetry

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Sylvia Plath: 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' - Confessional Poetry

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Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams

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Themes of Alienation, Identity, and Urban Culture

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Chapter 5

American Drama

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

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Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

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Expressionism and Modern Tragedy

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The Decline of the American Myth

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Themes of Illusion vs Reality

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