The syllabus this semester will concentrate on nineteenth-century American novels.
- Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall (1854) [Penguin Classics, 1997]
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Silent Partner (1871) [Feminist Press, 1993]
- Lillie Devereux Blake, Fettered for Life (1874) [Feminist Press, 1996]
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Story of Avis (1877) [Rutgers UP, 1986]
- Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor (1884) [Bantam Classics, 1999]
- Henry James, The Bostonians (1886) [Penguin Classics, 2000]
- Frances E.W. Harper, Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892) [Dover, 2010]
- Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905) [Norton Critical Eds., 1990]