Pensum/l?ringskrav

Syllabus

• Henry James, Roderick Hudson (1878, Penguin Classics)

• William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890, Penguin Classics)

• Drude Krog Janson, A Saloonkeeper¡¯s Daughter (1889; Johns Hopkins UP)

• Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884; available in the Norton Anthology of American Literature)

• Selections from Axel Nissen, ed., The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America (Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003; anthology to be provided by the course instructor):

• Thomas Bailey Aldrich, ¡°Majorie Daw¡± (1873)

• James Lane Allen, ¡°Two Gentlemen of Kentucky¡± (1888)

• Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson), extract from St. Elmo (1867)

• Bret Harte, ¡°Tennessee¡¯s Partner¡± (1869)

• Bret Harte, ¡°In the Tules¡± (1895)

• Frederick W. Loring, extract from Two College Friends (1871)

• Charles Warren Stoddard, ¡°A South-Sea Idyl¡± (1869)

• Bayard Taylor, extract from Joseph and His Friend (1870)

• Theodore Winthrop, extract from Cecil Dreeme (1861)

• Axel Nissen, Manly Love: Romantic Friendship in American Fiction (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009)