The English Concentration
in the Liberal Studies Degree

American Literature--Research and Analysis Website

• Benjamin Franklin, "The Way to Wealth"
• Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in Possibility" (J657)
• Edgar Allan Poe, "The Oval Portrait"
• Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
• Frederick Douglass, The Heroic Slave
• Zora Neale Hurston, "The Gilded Six-Bits" and "Sweat"
• Susan Glaspell, "Trifles"
• T. S. Eliot, "Journey of the Magi"
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"

• "Patriarchal Society and the Erasure of the Feminine Self in Chopin’s 'The Story of an Hour'” (1800 words)
• "Confession, Exploration and Comfort in Anne Bradstreet's 'Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666'" by Rebecca Howe-Pinsker (published in Ampersand)
• "Finding Jim Behind the Mask: The Revelation of African American Humanity in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Leslie Gregory (published in Ampersand)
• "Wordsworth and the Reweaving of the Rainbow" by Lori Burton (published in Ampersand)
• "Misdirected American Democracy: Emerson's Solution in 'The American Scholar'" by Eric C. Otto (published in Ampersand)
• "Native American Humor: Powerful Medicine in Louise Erdrich's Tracks"by Leslie Gregory (published in Ampersand)

 

• "The Dual Self in Bradstreet’s 'The Flesh and the Spirit': The Never-Ending Conflict between Good and Evil"
• "Books and Man Thinking:  Edification or False Idolatry?  A Caution in Emerson's 'The American Scholar'" by Nancy Haines (published in Ampersand)

• Frost, "The Road Not Taken" (Summary with Thesis for Response)
• Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (Summary)

• MLA Documentation (FGCU)

Essay Assignments

• Sophomore Level Research Essay Assignment
• Junior Level Research Essay Assignment
• Literary Analysis Essay Assignment (no research)
• Summary Response Essay Assignment

• Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wall-Paper"
• Columbus, Journal of the First Voyage
• Thomas Paine, Common Sense
• Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Charles Chesnutt, "The Passing of Grandison"
• Homer, The Odyssey
• Beowulf

• Captain John Smith, A Description of New England
• Edward Taylor, "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar
• W. D. Howells, Suburban Sketches
• Ovid, The Metamorphoses
• Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Spring 2001 Semester

• AML 3032 Literature and Culture of the US, 1860-1912

• LIT 4404 Interdisciplinary Lit: Environmental Literature

• AML 2010 US Literature and Culture I, to 1860
• IDS 3920 Colloquium: A Sustainable Future

• AML 3223 US Literature and Culture 1820-1860

• LIT 4930 Special Topics:  Theories of Art and Literature in US Literature before 1860

• AML 3051 The Literature and Culture of the US, 1912-1945
• LIT 2110 Introduction to World Literature and Culture I
• LIT 2110 Introduction to World Literature and Culture I (Independent Study)

• AML 2010 Introduction to the Literature and Culture of the US I, to 1860
• AML 3032 The Literature and Culture of the US, 1860-1912
• ENG 4930 Senior Seminar in Literary and Cultural Studies