• A 10-15 page research paper on the work of any novelist who might conceivably have been covered by this course (50% of final grade
• Four 2-3 page response papers (50% of final grade)

James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick--or The Whale
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Richard Wright, Native Son
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Supplemental readings on electronic and standard reserve at Olin (r)

Cooper, The Pioneers
Group A papers due

Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
recommended: Preface to The House of the Seven Gables (r)
Group B papers due

Melville, Moby-Dick, 
recommended: “Hawthorne and his Mosses”; letters to Hawthorne (r)
Group A papers due

Moby-Dick
Group B papers due

Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Group A papers due

Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
recommended: “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”; W. D. Howells, “Novel-Reading and Novel Writing” (r)
Group B papers due

James, The Portrait of a Lady
recommended: “The Art of Fiction” (r)
Group A papers due

Wharton, The House of Mirth
recommended: Introduction; “The Great American Novel” (r)
Group B papers due

Cather, My Antonia
recommended: “The Novel Demeublé” (r)
Group A papers due

Wright, Native Son
recommended: “Blueprint for Negro Writing” (r)
Group B papers due

Ellison, Invisible Man
recommended: “The World and the Jug” (r)
Group A papers due

Ellison, Invisible Man
Group B papers due