Studies in American Literature

Possible reading: Herman Melville, Battle Pieces

Possible reading: Walt Whitman, Drum-Taps

Possible reading: Louisa May Alcott, Hospital Sketches

Possible reading: John DeForest, Miss Ravenel’s Conversion

Possible reading: Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage

Possible reading: William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

Possible reading: Evelyn Scott, The Wave

Possible reading: Stephen Vincent Benet, John Brown’s Body

Possible reading: Margaret Walker, Jubilee

Possible reading: Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

Possible reading: Gore Vidal, Lincoln

Possible reading: Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell

Possible reading: Georg Lukacs, The Historical Novel

Possible reading: Frederick Jameson, The Political Unconscious

Possible reading: Freud, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” and “On Mourning and Melancholia”

Possible reading: Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience

Possible reading: Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain

Possible reading: James Dawes, The Language of War

Possible reading: Leo Bersani, The Culture of Redemption

Possible reading: Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore

Possible reading: Elizabeth Young, Disarming the Nation

Possible reading: Catherine Clinton, Battle Scars