Anglo-American Literature, 2nd year, Prof.

Giorgio Mariani, 1st semester

Readings:

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, ed. Peter G. Beidler, St. Martin’s Press

YOU MUST USE THIS TEXT AS IT IS THE ONLY ONE THAT INCLUDES THE CRITICAL
MATERIALS THAT WILL BE STUDIED AND DISCUSSED AS PART OF THE COURSE

Classic texts (you will study these on your own):

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Modern poetry: Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”; “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”;
T. S. Eliot, “Gerontion”; Marianne Moore, “Poetry”; Wallace Stevens, “The Snow Man” (texts
available from my webpage on the department's website)

Historical background and literary history:

Oliviero Bergamini, Storia degli Stati Uniti d’Aamerica, Laterza, chapter 3 e 4

La letteratura degli Stati Uniti: Dal Rinascimento americano ai nostri giorni a cura di Cristina Iuli
e Paola Loreto, Carocci, the following chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9.

Students whose Italian is not good enough will read

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, chapters 6-14

From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard; Bradbury,

Malcolm Ruland, Penguin