1. Beowulf   (Heaney translation)
2. Everyman
3. Gawain and the Green Knight
4. Geoffrey Chaucer.   General prologue to The Canterbury Tales, “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Franklin's Tale”
5. William Shakespeare.   King Lear, Twelfth Night
6. John Webster.   The Duchess of Malfi
7. John Donne.   “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God,” “The Canonization,” “The Flea”
8. Andrew Marvell.   “To His Coy Mistress,” “The Mower Against Gardens,” “The Garden”
9. John Milton.   Paradise Lost, books 1, 4, 9
10. Aphra Behn.   Oroonoko
11. Anne Bradstreet.   “The Author to Her Book,” “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment,” “Upon the Burning of Our House July 10^th, 1666”
12. Alexander Pope.   The Rape of the Lock
13. Jonathan Swift.   Gulliver’s Travels, parts 1-2
14. Royall Tyler.   The Contrast
15. Jane Austen.   Persuasion
16. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “Frost at Midnight”
17. William Wordsworth.   “Ode: Intimations of Immortality,” “Resolution and Independence”
18. John Keats.   “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn”
19. Mary Shelley.   Frankenstein
20. Percy Bysshe Shelley.   “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” “Ozymandias”
21. Charlotte Brontë.     Jane Eyre
22. Robert Browning.   “My Last Duchess,” “Andrea del Sarto,” “An Epistle…of Karshish, the Arab Physician”
23. Charles Dickens.   Great Expectations
24. Gerard Manley Hopkins.   “The Windhover,” [Carrion Comfort], [No Worst, There is None]
25. Rebecca Harding Davis.   Life in the Iron Mills
26. Nathaniel Hawthorne.   The House of the Seven Gables
27. Herman Melville.   “Benito Cereno,” “Bartleby, The Scrivener”
28. Harriet Jacobs.   Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapters I, VII, X, XIV, XXI, XLI
29. Ralph Waldo Emerson.   “Self-Reliance”
30. Henry David Thoreau.   Walden, chapters 1 and 18
31. Walt Whitman.   “Song of Myself”
32. Emily Dickinson.   Poems 258 (“There's a certain Slant of light”), 435 (“Much Madness is Divinest Sense”), 449 (“I died for beauty, but was scarce”), 712 (“Because I could not stop for Death”), 754 (“My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun”), 1732 (“My life closed twice before its close”)
33. Frederick Douglass.   Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
34. Joseph Conrad.   Heart of Darkness
35. Stephen Crane.   “The Blue Hotel,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”
36. Edith Wharton.   The House of Mirth
37. T. S. Eliot.   The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
38. James Joyce.   “The Dead,” “Araby”
39. Virginia Woolf.   To the Lighthouse, “A Room of One’s Own”
40. Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises
41. William Faulkner.   “The Bear”
42. William Butler Yeats.   “Sailing to Byzantium,” “The Second Coming,” “Byzantium,” “The Circus Animals’ Desertion”
43. Wallace Stevens.   “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “Sunday Morning,” “The Emperor of Ice-Cream”
44. William Carlos Williams.   “The Young Housewife,” “This Is Just to Say,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “Spring and All”
45. Langston Hughes.   “I, Too,” “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”
46. Harold Pinter.   The Birthday Party
47. Zora Neale Hurston.   Their Eyes Were Watching God
48. Flannery O’Connor.   “Good Country People,” “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
49. Adrienne Rich.   “Diving into the Wreck,” “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers”
50. Jean Rhys.   Wide Sargasso Sea
51. Doris Lessing.  The Golden Notebook
52. Iris Murdoch.   A Severed Head
53. Don DeLillo.   White Noise
54. Leslie Marmon Silko. Ceremony
55. Toni Morrison.   Beloved

1. Job, Ecclesiastes, Revelation (King James Bible)
2. Sophocles.   Oedipus Rex
3. François Voltaire.   Candide
4. ETA Hoffmann.  “The Sandman,” “The Golden Pot”
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky.   Crime and Punishment
6. Thomas Mann.   Death in Venice
7. Henrik Ibsen.   A Doll's House
8. Franz Kafka.   “The Metamorphosis”
9. Gabriel García Márquez.   “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,” “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”
10. Chinua Achebe.   Things Fall Apart
11. Milan Kundera.   The Farewell Waltz
12. Janet Frame.   Living in the Maniototo
13. Salman Rushdie.   Midnight's Children
14. Margaret Atwood.   Alias Grace
15. Lloyd Jones.  Mister Pip

Literary Theory*

1. Chinua Achebe.   “An Image of Africa”
2. Roland Barthes.   “The Structuralist Activity,” “The Death of the Author”
3. Sigmund Freud.   “The Uncanny”
4. Jacques Lacan.   “The Mirror Stage”
5. Hélène Cixous.   “The Laugh of the Medusa”
6. Bakhtin.   “Heteroglossia in the Novel from Discourse in the Novel”
7. Gilbert & Gubar.   “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship”
8. Edward Said.   Orientalism (excerpts)
9. Robert Scholes.   “The Text in the Class · I” (from Textual Power)
10. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.   Between Men (excerpts)
11. Frederic Jameson. “The Political Unconscious”

* PHOTOCOPIES AVAILABLE