Engl 565-01: American Genre (Novel)

Fall Semester 2006

Resources

TTh 11:00-12:15, Grubbs 312

Instructor: Dr. K. Nichols

E-mail: knichols@pittstate.edu

Charles Brockden Brown

• Charles Brockden Brown --biography.
• Charles Brockden Brown --another helpful biography.
• Wieland; or the Transformation --lecture summary; interesting questions and issues raised.
• The Fantastic/Uncanny Horror Thriller --Chapter Four from the scholarly study The Delights of Terror; includes a good section on Wieland.
• Female Captivity and the Deployment of Race in Three Early American Texts --scholarly article; includes a discussion of Wieland.
• From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment--scholarly article on some key 18th century ideas that influenced Charles Brocken Brown.
• Charles Brockden Brown's Clara, an Archetype of the Classic Eighteenth-Century Woman --interesting student essay.
• Misreading in Wieland: Some Unresolved Issues --another interesting student paper.
• Placement in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland --good student paper.
• 'The awe-creating presence of the deity': Some Religious Sources for Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland --scholarly article.
• Wieland, Othello, Genesis, and the Floating City: The sources of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland --scholarly article.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Nathaniel Hawthorne --biography.
• 'A curious subject of observation and inquiry': Homoeroticism, the body, and authorship in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter --scholarly article.
• Domesticating Hawthorne: Home Is for the Birds --scholarly article.
• The Scarlet Letter of the Law: Hawthorne and Criminal Justice --scholarly article.
• 'You cannot fix the scarlet letter on my breast!': Women Reading, Writing, and Reshaping the Sexual Culture of Victorian America --scholarly article.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Beecher Stowe --biography.
• Slave narratives and Uncle Tom's Cabin --anti-slavery literature.
• The Minstrel Show --history of minstrelsy.
• Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture --browse this site--many links. See in particular "UTC on Stage" and "UTC at the Movies." Also see the essays in the "Interpret" section.
• The Haunted Cabin: Uncle Tom and the Gothic --shorter but good essay.
• Between the Rhetoric of Abolition and Feminism: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin --scholarly paper.
• Creole Family /Politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl --scholarly article.
• Kentucky Model: Economics, Individualism and Domesticity in Uncle Tom's Cabin --scholarly article.
• Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin --scholarly article.

Henry James

• Henry James --biography.
• The Aspern Papers--short but helpful essay.
• Henry James's The Aspern Papers --scholarly article.
• Jeffrey Aspern and Edgar Allan Poe: A Speculation --scholarly article.
• For more essays and articles, see Henry James entry on American Realism page.

Kate Chopin

• Kate Chopin --biography.
• For essays and articles, see Kate Chopin entry on American Realism page.

Ernest Hemingway

• Ernest Hemingway --biography.
• For essays and articles, see Ernest Hemingway entry on Jazz Age page.

Zora Neale Hurston

• Zora Neale Hurston --biography.
• For essays and articles, see Zora Neale Hurston entry on Jazz Age page.

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner --biography.
• For essays and articles, see William Faulkner entry on Jazz Age page.

Louise Erdrich

• Louise Erdrich --biography.
• Native American Humor: Powerful Medicine in Louise Erdrich's Tracks--good student paper.
• Tongue-Tied: Rhetoric and Relation in Louise Erdrich's Tracks --scholarly article.
• "Where the Maps Stopped": The Aesthetics of Borders in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicin and Tracks --scholarly article.
• The Short Stories of Louise Edrich's Novels --scholarly article.
• Revisioning History through Literary Characters: Louise Erdrich's Pauline and Toni Morrison's Beloved--scholarly article.
• Traditional Voices Speak: Storytellers in Contemporary Native American Texts --scholarly essay on Tracks and other Native American texts.
• A Healthy Balance: Religion, Identity, and Community in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine --scholarly article.
• Ceremonial healing and the multiple narrative tradition in Louise Erdrich's Tales of Burning Love --scholarly article.
• The Stories We Tell: Louise Erdrich's Identity Narratives --scholarly article.
• What about the sweetheart?: The "Different Shape" of Anishinabe Two Sisters Stories in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and Tales of Burning Love --scholarly article.

Bharati Mukherjee

• Bharati Mukherjee --biography.
• Bharati Mukherjee-- biography, plus some comments on her fiction.
• The Technological Hybrid as Post-American: Cross-Cultural Genetics in Jasmine --scholarly article.
• Of Shattered Pots and Sinkholes: (Female) Identity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine --scholarly article.
• A Critique of Bharati Mukherjee's Neo-nationalism --scholarly article.
• Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine: Making Connections Between Asian and Asian American Literature--scholarly article.
• Of Foreigners and Fetishes: A Reading of Recent South Asian American Fiction--critical review of Jasmine and other immigrant novels.
• Re-reading Beyond Third World Difference: The Case of Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine --scholarly article.
• Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian --scholarly article.
• "Tornado[s]" with the Initial "J": The Meaning of Chaos Theory in Mukherjee's Jasmine--scholarly article.