Exam Lists
American Literature: The Long 19th Century
Race and American Literature, with Dr. Theresa Gaul PDF
- List focuses on authors of a variety of races: White American, Native American, Black American, Chinese American, & Mexican American. The secondary sources list provides a wide range of readings, including: whiteness studies, Native American studies, and African American studies.
Class and Resistance in American Literature, with Dr. Dan Williams PDF
- List features a variety of canonical and non-canonical writers whose narratives reveal evidence of class status, conflict, and resitance. A large portion of the readings focus on the middle-class and span Republican Nation Making, Sentimentalism, Sensationalism, Transcendentalism, and American Realism.
Cross-Cultural Marriages in American Literature, with Dr. Sarah Robbins PDF
- On the whole, the readings on this list tend to be less or non-canonical. Some of the texts may be difficult to find--resulting in reading texts online or on microfiche. I have been fortunate enough to find at least an electornic copy of the more elusive unrecovered novels. In considering candidates for my list, I looked for couples that involved an American marrying a person from another nation, or Americans of two opposing races marrying. At present, I have international marriages, Black / White marriages, Mexican American / White marriages, Native American / White marriages, North / South marriages (ante/postbellum); cross-class marriages, East / Mid-West marriages. Since this list will feed my dissertation, I would love to hear any primary or secondary texts suggestions you may have.
“A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam”
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Department of English
Texas Christian University
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Fort Worth, TX 76129
lynda.davis@tcu.edu
Texas Christian University
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lynda.davis@tcu.edu
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