Emily Dickinson
Use one of the following editions:
-The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. T.H. Johnson. (poems identified as J#)*
-The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. Franklin. (poems identified as F#)*
"These are the days when Birds come back—" (J 130/F 122)
"A Solemn thing—it was—I said" (J 271/F 307)
"We play at Paste—" (J 320/F 336)
"A Bird came down the Walk—" (J 328/ F 359)
"To interrupt His Yellow Plan" (J 591/ F 622)
"I cannot life with You—" (J 640/ F 706)
"Me from Myself—to banish—" (J 642/ F 709)
"Presentiment—is that long Shadow—on the Lawn—" (J 764/ F 487)
"The Last Night that She lived" (J 1100/ F1100)
"A Bee his burnished Carriage" (J 1339/ F 1351)
"How brittle are the Piers" (J 1433/ F 1459)
"Apparently with no surprise" (J 1624/ F 1668)
Robert Frost
"The Death of a Hired Man"
"The Wood-Pile"
"Birches"
"Out, Out—"
E.A. Robinson
"The House on the Hill"
"Richard Cory"
"Miniver Cheevy"
"Mr. Flood's Party"
Abraham Cahan
"The Imported Bridegroom," in Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories, pp.93-162.
Kate Chopin
"Athénaise"*
"Désiree's Baby"
Paul Laurence Dunbar
“The Lynching of Jube Benson”
Henry James
In the Cage
Jack London
White Fang
Mark Twain
“The Private History of a Campaign that Failed”
Edith Wharton
Summer
Secondary Works
Henry James, "The Art of Fiction"*
Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. Read essays by Pizer and Crowley.*
Amy Kaplan, The Social Construction of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1986. Read Introduction and Chapter 1.*
Eric Sundquist, American Realism: New Essays. Baltimore: JHU Pres, 1982. Read essay by Sundquist.*
*On reserve at Penrose Library
