Litteratur
F?lgende tekster i Nina Baym, gen. ed., The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Sixth Edition (2003):
- Anne Bradstreet. "To My Dear and Loving Husband", "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment", "Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House"
- Edward Taylor. "Meditation 8 (First Series)", "Huswifery"
- Phillis Wheatley. "On Being Brought from Africa to America", "To His Excellency General Washington"
- Benjamin Franklin. "The Way to Wealth"
- William Cullen Bryant. "To a Waterfowl", "The Prairies"
- Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle"
- James Fenimore Cooper. Utdrag fra The Pioneers (kap. 3)
- Edgar Allan Poe. "The Cask of Amontillado", "Sonnet-To Science", "To Helen", "The Raven", "The Philosophy of Composition"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The American Scholar"
- Henry D. Thoreau. Utdrag fra Walden ("Economy," 853-95) og "Conclusion"
- Margaret Fuller. "The Great Lawsuit"
- Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton). "Male Criticism on Ladies' Books", "'Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern'", "A Law More Nice Than Just"
- Harriet Beecher Stowe. Utdrag fra Uncle Tom's Cabin (kap.7)
- Walt Whitman. "Song of Myself"
Romaner:
Herman Melville: Moby-Dick, f?lgende kapitler: 1-30; 35-38; 41-44; 47, 49, 52, 59-60; 66, 70, 76, 82-83; 87, 93, 94-96; 99, 103, 106, 109-10; 114, 119, 128, 131-35; Epilogue.
Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter,
Generelt om perioden:
Som grunnbok leses Sigmund Ro, Literary America, kap. 1-3.
Ellers anbefales ogs? The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, Bind 9: American Literature, ss. 3-152.
Kulturkunnskap
Carol Berkin, Christopher L. Miller, Robert W. Cherny & James L. Gormly: Making America. A History of the United States, 2003, 3rd ed. Volume I. To 1877. Houghton Mifflin.