Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of American Studies
- Code
- BBI-AME21-211E
- Title
- American Literature 1.
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This lecture course is surveying American literature from the colonial period to the late 19th century.
- Course content
- Topics include: Puritanism, the American Enlightenment, the American Renaissance, Transcendentalism, Postbellum Colonialism, Psychological Realism among others.
- Assessment method
- Written examination in the exam period.
- Bibliography
- Secondary texts: relevant chapters from Bollobás Enikő, Az amerikai irodalom rövid története (Budapest: Osiris, 2015) and Richard Gray, A Brief History of American Literature (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). Primary texts: John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of … Anne Bradstreet, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband Absent Upon Public Employment,” “Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” Thomas Jefferson, The American Declaration of Independence Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Purloined Letter” Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Raven,” “The Philosophy of Composition,” “The Purloined Letter” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature,” “Self-Reliance” Henry David Thoreau, “Economy” Chapter 1 from Walden Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, “The Birthmark”, “Young Goodman Brown” Herman Melville, Benito Cereno, “Bartleby the Scrivener” Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of FD, an American Slave Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” Emily Dickinson, poems #214, 258, 280, 303, 465, 754, 861, 1072, 1129 Sarah Orne Jewett, “A White Heron” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Henry James, Daisy Miller The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour,” The Awakening Susan Glaspell, Trifles Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”