Biography:
Brown, William Ward. Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written
by Himself, 1847; Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave
Life
in the United States, 1853; Memoir of WWB, An American Bondman. Written by
Himself, 1859
Douglass, Fredrick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave, Written by Himself (1845); The Heroic Slave, 1853; My Bondage and My
Freedom (1855); Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
(1881).
Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Told By Herself
(using the
name Linda Brent), ed. Lydia Maria Child, 1861; republished as The Deeper
Wrong.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 1862.
Shorter Histories
Coale, Samuel. In Hawthrone's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer.
Fogle, Richard Harter. The Permanent Pleasure (essays on the "classics"
of
Romanticism)
Lieber, Todd M. Endless Experiments (Essays on the heroic experience in American
Romanticism).
Poetry:
Bryant, William Cullen. "Thanatopsis," September, 1817, published
in The North
American Review; Poems, 1821; The Poetical Works of WCB, 1903.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "Old Ironsides," 1830; "The Deacon's
Masterpiece, or, The
Wonderful One-Hoss Shay," 1858 (poem); Elsie Venner, 1861 (novel); Astraea:
The
Balance of Illusions, 1850 (poems); Songs in Many Keys, 1862 (poems)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Voices of the Night, 1839; Ballads and Other
Poems,
1841; Poems on Slavery, 1842; Evangeline, 1847; The Song of Haiwatha, 1855;
The
Courtship of Miles Standish, 1856; Poems, 1886.
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane and Other Poems, 1827 (poems); Al Aaraaf,
Tamarlane, and Minor Poems, 1829 (poems); The Raven and Other Poems, 1845
(poems); Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe, 1848
(criticism).
Short Story Collections: (Entire collections may be substituted for a novel)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales, 1837; Mosses from an Old Manse,
1846;
Irving, Washington. Diedrich Knickerbocker's History ofNew York from the
Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, 1809; The Sketch Book,
1819-20, containing "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow;"
Bracebridge Hall, 1822; The Alhambra, 1832; The Crayon Miscellany, 1835;
Astoria, 1836; The Rocky Mountains, (The Adventures of Captain Bonneville),
1837
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. 2 vols., 1840 (stories);
The Prose Romances, 1843 (stories); Tales, 1845 (stories)
Novels:
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers, 1823; The Last of the Mohicans, 1826;
The Prairie, 1827; The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish,1829; The Pathfinder, 1840; The
Deerslayer, 1841; Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall, 1855; Rose Clark, 1856; Folly As
It
Flies, 1859.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Twice-Told Tales, 1837; Mosses from an Old Manse,
1846; The House of Seven Gables , 1851; The Blithedale Romance, 1852; The
Life
of Franklin Pierce, 1852; The Marble Faun , 1860;
Melville, Herman. Typee, 1846; Omoo, 1847; Redburn, 1849; Moby-Dick, 1851;
Billy Budd, Sailor, 1924.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, 1838.
Sedgewick, Catherine Maria. A New-England Tale, 1822; Redwood, 1824; Hope
Leslie,
1827; Clarence, 1830; The Linwoods, 1835; Married or Single?, 1857.
Simms, William Gillmore. Martin Faber: The Story of a Criminal, 1833; The
Yemassee. A Romance of Carolina, 1835 (e-text); The Life of Francis Marion
(Gutenberg text)
Essays:
Douglass, Frederick. Collected Essays, 5 Volumes; Sundquist, Eric J. FD: New
Literary
and Historical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Poe, Edgar Allan. Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe,
1848
(criticism). Essays and reviews. New York: Viking Press, 1984. PS2619 .A1;
Literary
criticism of Edgar Allan Poe. Ed. Robert L. Hough. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska
Press, 1965. PS2619 .A1
Lowell, James Russel. Literary criticism of James Russell Lowell. Ed. Herbert
F. Smith.
Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1969. PS2315 S6
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Declaration of Sentiments, 1842. Signed at frist
American
women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY.
(http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/seneca.htm)
Letters:
Poe, Edgar Allan. Letters. Ed. John Ward Ostrom. 2 vols. New York: Gordian
Press,
1966. PS2631 .A33
Speeches:
Hawk, Black. "Surrender Speech of 1832."
(http://web.hist.uib.no/socrates/delfag/blackhawk.html)
Go to this Internet site. Choose any speech written between 1800 and 1842.
http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu/ review "Chronologically."
Some examples are:
Calhoun, John - "Against the Force Bill," 15 & 16 February
1833
Ed Tocqueville, Alexis - "General Tendency of the Laws," 1835
Plaindealer (New York) - "The
Blessings of Slavery," 25 February, 1837
The following web sites have been invaluable in constructing this list:
http://www.bartleby.com/226/index.html and http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/table.html
. My
enduring gratitude to Paul Rueben at Cal State University, Stanislaus and
the publishers of The Cambridge
History of English and American Literature.
