The primary readings for the American Renaissance course are listed below.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Experience” | |
“Nature” | |
“Literary Ethics” | |
“Self-Reliance” | |
“Emancipation in the British West Indies” |
Print Edition: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Modern Library Classics. 978-0679783220.
Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Gutenberg | Google Books | Kindle |
Print Edition: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Yale University Press. 978-0300087017
Walt Whitman
“Walt Whitman,” Leaves of Grass (1860) | |
“As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free” |
Print Edition: The Complete Poems. Penguin. 978-0140424515
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter | Gutenberg | Google Books | Kindle |
Print Edition: The Scarlet Letter. Penguin. 978-1440656484
Herman Melville
Moby-Dick | Gutenberg | Google Books | Kindle |
Print Edition: Moby-Dick. Norton, 978-0393972832
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Gutenberg | Google Books | Kindle |
Print Edition: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Penguin. 978-0140390032
Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Gutenberg | Google Books | Kindle |
Print Edition: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Penguin. 978-0143107323