THE AMERICAN EYE

Required and Suggested Readings  As part of our study this quarter we will be reading a number of novels which pertain to specific time periods we will cover in class.  In addition to the required books (listed in bold), there are a number of other readings (in italics) which, hopefully, some of you will take the time to investigate on your own. 

A. Civil War Era and Beyond

    1.      The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

     2.      Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane   

     3.  Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 

B. American Industrialization   

    1. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair    

    2. How the Other Half Lives by Jabob Riis       

    3. John Barleycorn by Jack London      

    4. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

C. World War I, The Jazz Age, The Roaring 20s    

    1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald    

    2. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque    

    3. The Sun also Rises and A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway    

    4. Johnny got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

D. The Great Depression, The Dirty 30s

    1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

   2.  Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans

     3.      A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty

E. The Fabulous 50s    

    1. On the Road by Jack Kerouac    

    2. Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady

    3.  Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

    4.      The Crucible by Arthur Miller

F. The 1960s and 70s    

    1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson    

    2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey    

    3. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Thomas Wolfe

    4. Loose Change by Sara Davidson