This section contains the following pages.  Note that they’re grouped by theme and/or literary style, as those styles started to develop.

• Introduction: “American” Literature

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Romanticism Part I

• Introduction: Romanticism
• William Cullen Bryant, Poems
• Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle
• Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
• Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha
• Tecumesh, Speech to the Osages
• William Apess, An Indian’s Looking Glass

Romanticism Part II

• Edgar Allan Poe, The Philosophy of Composition & Poems
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
• Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minister’s Black Veil
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
• Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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Transcendentalism

• Introduction: Transcendentalism
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature & Self-Reliance
• Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit

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Humanitarian Themes

• Introduction: Humanitarian Themes
• John Greenleaf Whittier, Poems
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poems
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth, Ain’t I A Woman?
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments
• Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills

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Whitman and an “American” Literature

• Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass
• Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass