LESELISTE AMERIKANISTIK Stand: Januar 1994 Die folgende

LESELISTE AMERIKANISTIK
Stand: Januar 1994
Die folgende Leseliste soll als Leitfaden während des Amerikanistikstudiums dienen. Sie stellt
einen Literaturkanon dar, der in regelmäßigen Zeitabständen aktualisiert wird.
Bei der Lyrik treffen Sie bitte eine Auswahl.
Quellen für nicht näher bezeichnete Werkangaben sind die Norton Anthology und die Heath
Anthology of American Literature.
COLONIAL PERIOD 1620-1765
Bradford, William. History of Plimmoth Plantation (1630-51)
Bradstreet, Anne. Poems
Edwards, Jonathan. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741)
Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
Rowlandson, Mary. A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
(1682)
THE PERIOD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1765-1820
Crèvecoeur, St. John de. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography (1771)
Jefferson, Thomas. Declaration of Independence (1776)
THE PERIOD OF AMERICAN ROMANTICISM 1820-1860
Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pioneers (1823)
Dickinson, Emily. Poems (publ. 1890)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays (1841; 1844)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Irving, Washington. The Sketch Book (1819/20)
Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick (1851); "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1856); "Benito Cereno" (1856);
Billy Budd (1891)
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque (1840); "The Philosophy of
Composition" (1846)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden (1854)
Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass (1855; 1867; 1871)
THE AGE OF REALISM/NATURALISM 1860-1910
Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening (1899)
Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie (1900)
Garland, Hamlin. Main-Travelled Roads (1891)
Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (1870)
Howells, William Dean. The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)
James, Henry. The Portrait of a Lady (1881); "The Turn of the Screw" (1898); The Ambassadors
(1903)
Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
Norris, Frank. McTeague (1899)
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle (1906)
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885); A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's
Court (1889)
THE AGE OF MODERNISM 1910-1945
Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood (1936)
Cather, Willa. My Antonia (1918)
Cummings, E.E. Collected Poems (1938)
Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer (1925)
Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (1929); Light in August (1932); "The Bear" (1942)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (1925)
Frost, Robert. Collected Poems (1930; 1939)
Hemingway, Ernest. In Our Time (1925); The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Larsen, Nella. Passing (1929)
Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. (1922)
Moore, Marianne. Complete Poems (publ. 1967)
Nabokov, Vladimir. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941)
O'Neill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
Porter, Katherine Anne. Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939)
Pound, Ezra. The Cantos: I, XVII, XLV (publ. 1970)
Stein, Gertrude. Three Lives (1909)
Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poems (publ. 1954)
West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust (1939)
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence (1920)
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town (1938)
Williams, William Carlos. Collected Poems, 1921-1931 (1934)
Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
Wright, Richard. Black Boy (1945)
POST WORLD WAR II LITERATURE
Abish, Walter. Alphabetical Africa (1974)
Agee, James. A Death in the Family (1956)
Albee, Edward. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Barth, John. Lost in the Funhouse (1968)
Barthelme, Donald. Snow White (1967)
Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March (1953)
Berryman, John. 77 Dream Songs (1964)
Bishop, Elizabeth. Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (1983)
Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch (1959)
Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood (1965)
Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye (1953)
Cheever, John. The Wapshot Scandal (1963)
Coover, Robert. Pricksongs and Descants (1969)
DeLillo, Don. Libra (1988)
Dick, Phillip K. Martian Time-Slip (1964)
Doctorow, Edgar Lawrence. Ragtime (1974)
Doolittle, Hilda. Selected Poems (1957)
Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man (1952)
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides (1993)
Exley, Frederick. A Fan's Notes (1968)
Gardner, John. Grendel (1971)
Garrett, George. Death of the Fox (1971)
Gass, William H. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Coney Island of the Mind (1958)
Ginsberg, Allen. Howl and Other Poems (1956)
Hawkes, John. Travesty (1976)
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 (1961)
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road (1957)
LeGuin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed (1974)
Lowell, Robert. For the Union Dead (1964)
Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night (1968)
Malamud, Bernard. The Assistant (1957)
McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian (1985)
McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman (1949); The Crucible (1953)
Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn (1969)
Morrison, Toni. Beloved (1987)
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita (1955)
Oates, Joyce Carol. Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)
O'Connor, Flannery. The Violent Bear It Away (1960)
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel (1966)
Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Roethke, Theodore. The Collected Poems (1966)
Roth, Philip. Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
Silko, Leslie. Ceremony (1977)
Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose (1971)
Thompson, Jim. Pop. 1280 (1964)
Updike, John. The Centaur (1962)
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
Warren, Robert Penn. All the King's Men (1946)
Welty, Eudora. The Optimist's Daughter (1982)
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)