ENG 1a List
English 1a: each time the course is taught, a substantial number of these texts will be used.
Short Stories:
Geoffrey Chaucer “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and Prologue
Charles Chesnutt “The Wife of His Youth”
Edwige Danticat, “Children of the Sea”
Junot Diaz “Drown”
Arthur Conan Doyle “Man with the Twisted Lip”
Maria Edgeworth “Grateful Negro”
George Eliot “The Lifted Veil”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Yellow Wallpaper”
Eliza Haywood “Fantomina”
Ernest Hemingway “Hills like White Elephants”
James Joyce “The Dead”
Katherine Mansfield “Garden Party”
Herman Melville “Bartleby the Scrivener”
V. S. Naipaul “Tell me Who to Kill”
Grace Paley “Long Distance Runner”
Edgar Allen Poe “The Purloined Letter”
Jean Rhys “The Day they Burned the Books”
Poetry:
Gwendolyn Brooks
Robert Browning Men and Women
Emily Dickinson
John Donne Holy Sonnets
T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
Robert Frost
Langston Hughes
John Keats Odes
John Milton Paradise Lost
Sylvia Plath
Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock
Mary Robinson
William Shakespeare Sonnets
Edmund Spencer Faerie Queene
Derek Walcott
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Thomas Wyatt Sonnets
W B Yeats
Drama:
The Wakefield Master
Second Shepherd’s Play
Oxford Treasury of English Literature—1904
Clarence Griffin Child, ed.
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot
Elizabeth Cary Tragedy of Mariam
Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine
William Congreve Way of the World
John Gay Beggar’s Opera
Susan Glaspell Trifles
Tony Kushner Angels in America
Christopher Marlowe Faustus
A & B texts (1604/1616; Bevington/Rasmussen)
Alternate version: (Harvard University Library, 1897, Gollancz)
Harold Pinter Birthday Party
William Shakespeare Lear; Henry IV pt. 1; Tempest
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Cenci
Richard Brinsley Sheridan School for Scandal
Wole Soyinka Death and the King’s Horseman
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Tennessee Williams Glass Menagerie
August Wilson Piano Lesson
Novels:
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Jane Austen Emma
Aphra Behn Oronooko
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
William Faulkner Sound and the Fury
Thomas Hardy Tess
Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet Letter
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes were Watching God
Henry James Turn of the Screw
James Joyce Portrait of the Artist
Thomas More Utopia
Arundhati Roy God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children
Ken Saro-Wiwa Sozaboy
Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy
Amos Tutuola Palm Wine Drinkard
Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway
Nonfiction Prose (essays/autobiography)
Addison and Steele Spectator essays
Gloria Anzaldua “ How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
Mary Astell “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies” (1694)
Thomas Browne Urn-Burial
Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
Thomas Carlyle “Signs of the Times”
Charles Darwin from The Origin of Species (e.g. “Natural Selection”)
Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
Frederick Douglass A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
W. E. B. DuBois “On the Training of Black Men” from Souls of Black Folk
R. W. Emerson “Circles” “Nature” “Self Reliance”
Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan (e.g. chs. XV-XVII)
Thomas Jefferson (et al) “The Declaration of Independence”
Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place
M. L. King “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
Abraham Lincoln “Gettysburg Address”
John Locke “Letter concerning Toleration”
Audre Lorde "Poetry is Not a Luxury"
John Milton Areopagitica
Florence Nightingale “Cassandra”
John Ruskin “The Nature of the Gothic”
Sara Suleri Meatless Days
Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal”
H. D. Thoreau Walden
Film:
Robert Altman Nashville
Kenneth Branagh Henry V
Jane Campion The Piano
Charlie Chaplin City Lights
Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather
Thomas Edison Kinetoscope Shorts
Victor Fleming Gone with the Wind
Stephen Frears My Beautiful Laundrette
D. W. Griffiths Birth of a Nation
Edmund Goulding Grand Hotel
Perry Henzell Harder They Come
Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window
John Huston Maltese Falcon
Stanely Kubrick Clockwork Orange
Mira Nair Monsoon Wedding
Orson Welles Citizen Kane
Peter Weir Gallipoli
Theory
Louis Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus”
K. A. Appiah “Is the Post in Postcolonial the Same as the Post in Postmodernism?”
Aristotle from Poetics
Mikhail Bakhtin from “Discourse in the Novel”
Roland Barthes "The Reality Effect" “Death of the Author”
Walter Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; “The Storyteller”
Pierre Bourdieu, from Distinction
Cleanth Brooks “The Formalist Critics”
Judith Butler Gender Trouble (Chapter 1)
Jacques Derrida “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
Frantz Fanon “The Negro and Psychopathology”
Michel Foucault "What is an Author?"
Sigmund Freud “The Uncanny” “Notes on the Mystic Writing Tablet”
Henry L. Gates, Jr., “The Blackness of Blackness: A Critique of the Sign and the Signifying Monkey”
Roman Jacobson “What is Poetry?”
Frederic Jameson Postmodernism (chapter 1: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism)
Karl Marx from Capital (Vol I: on the commodity fetish)
Chandra Mohanty “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses”
Toni Morrison from Playing in the Dark
Laura Mulvey “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Plato from The Republic
Edward Said Orientalism (Introduction)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick “Introduction: Axiomatic” from Epistemology of the Closet
Raymond Williams from Keywords (art, aesthetic, criticism, culture, literature, society)
William Wordsworth preface to Lyrical Ballads