Teacher
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MAGGITTI VINCENZO
(syllabus)
The course will be focused on nineteenth century literature in North America and, particularly, on the narrative and essayst prose of the century, whose development will be analysed in the texts of some of the most representative writers of the time, such as Poe, Hawthorne and Melville. Themes and issues will be discussed in class. Attention will be given to the literary genres and the differences of style as well. Historical context will be pivotal, but changes in the reception of the work will be taken into account, also in a transmedial perspective.
(reference books)
Ralph Waldo EMERSON, Selected Writings, edited by: Robert D. Habich, Broadview Press, 2017 ISBN: 9781554812691 / 1554812690 - The American Scholar (1837) - Self-reliance (1841)
Edgar Allan POE, Selected Poetry and Tales, edited by: James M. Hutchisson, Broadview Press, 2012 ISBN: 9781554810468 / 1554810469 Tales: - William Wilson (1839) - The Man of the Crowd (1840) - The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
Nathaniel HAWTHORNE Short Stories - The Birthmark (1843) - Rapaccini’s Daughter (1844) (the two short stories can be found online (https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uniroma3-ebooks/reader.action?docID=3008591)
Harriett Beecher STOWE Novel - Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), edited by: Christopher G. Diller, Broadview Press, 2009 ISBN: 9781551118062 / 1551118068
Herman MELVILLE Short Story: - Bartelby, the Scrivener (1853) in: "Piazza Tales" Broadview Press, Publication Date: August 7, 2018 ISBN: 9781554813100 / 1554813107 Essay: “Hawthorne and his Mosses,” Literary World (1850) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hawthorne_and_His_Mosses
Louisa May ALCOTT Novel - Little Women (1868), edited by: Anne Hiebert Alton, 2001 ISBN: 9781551111919 / 1551111918
Mark TWAIN Huckleberry Finn (1885) Broadview Press, Publication Date: February 15, 2011 ISBN: 9781554810048 / 1554810043
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