Texts from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Ed.:
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar”
- Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”
- Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave’s Dream”
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
- Emily Dickinson, poems no. 122, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1263
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”
- Herman Melville, “Benito Cereno”
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”
- William Dean Howells, “Editha”
Novels to be bought separately:
- Lillie Devereux Blake, Fettered for Life (New York: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1996)
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, ed. Elizabeth Ammons (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990)