Literature

In this class, you will introduced to various forms of literature in America from 1620-1892.  You may also have to perform literary analysis on these works. So this page will help you with that as well.

• William Bradford -- Of Plymouth Plantation
• Anne Bradstreet-- "Upon the Burning of Our House"
• Jonathan Edwards --  Personal Narrative
• Benjamin Franklin -- selections from Autobiography
• Washington Irving -- "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nature
• Edgar Allan Poe -- "The Cask of Amontillado" and Selected Poetry
• Nathaniel Hawthorne -- "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Minister's Black Veil"
• Emily Dickinson -- Selected Poems
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- "The Revolt of Mother"
• Stephen Crane-- "The Open Boat"
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- "The Yellow Wallpaper" 

When looking for resources for your papers in most cases using this formulae for your search terms will work well.  

"Title of work" + Analysis or "Title of work" + critique or "Title of work" + Criticism

You may also want to click full text when you do your search.

However, there may be a few exceptions with the Personal Narrative, the Autobiography, and Nature.  These may not be specific enough to find good literary analysis so you may also want to include the author of the work in your search terms.  I would first try with the author's last name but if the search turns up confusing and unfulfilling, I would try the author's full name in quotations, similar to the title.

Therefore, your search terms should be like this formulae: "Title" + Author + analysis / Critique / Criticism.  

Moreover, you only need to find one analytical essay/ journal article for the parameters of the paper. 

Lastly, if you want, utilize the subject limiters located on the left hand side of the page, if you want further narrowing and refining.