ENGLISH 219: A Survey of American Literature, 1865-present
This page is under development. Here you will find links to pages that will give you access to historical and cultural backgrounds as well as texts for further reading. In every case I have attempted to select the most readable and course-appropriate sources. During our construction and test period, please help us by notifying me of any dead links, etc. at t-scherman@neiu.edu.
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
Rebecca Harding Davis, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Hamlin Garland, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Richard Wright
T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein
Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston
American Poetry, 1945-1980
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Robert Lowell, The Beats, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich
Postmodern Prose
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John Barth, Louise Erdrich, Don DeLillo
Author: Timothy H. Scherman
t-scherman@neiu.edu
Northeastern Illinois University (last updated 1/23/04)