Texts from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 8th Ed.:
- Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
- William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
- Henry W. Longfellow, “The Slave’s Dream”
- Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
- Emily Dickinson, poems no. 122, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1263
- Bret Harte, “The Luck of Roaring Camp”
- Mary Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun”
- Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Stephen Crane, “The Open Boat”
- Henry James, “The Beast in the Jungle”
- Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Wife of His Youth”
- Edith Wharton, “The Other Two”
Novels to be bought separately:
- Lillie Devereux Blake: Fettered for Life (Feminist Press)
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening (Norton Critical Edition)