課程概述
本課程以閱讀文本及課堂演講討論為主，介紹十九世紀美國文學之傳承、重要作家作品以及文學理念。所涵蓋之作家及文本詳見課程進度。


評量方式
1. 至少十四篇閱讀心得 70 %
2. 期末考或小考 20 %
3. 課堂討論表現 10 %

進度

第1週 Nathaniel Hawthorne (Young Goodman Brown; The Minister’s Black Veil; The Scarlet
Letter: The Custom House, Chapter 1)

第2週 Edgar Allen Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart; The Philosophy of Composition; The Black Cat)

第3週 Margaret Fuller (The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women: [Four Kinds
of Equality]); Thomas Jefferson (from Notes on the States of Virginia)

第4週 Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life among the Lowly: Chapter VII, Chapter XII); Harriet Jacob (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: VII. The Lover, X. A Perilous Passage in the Slave Girl’s Life)

第5週 Frederick Douglass (Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave)

第6週 Herman Melville (Bartleby, the Scrivener; Benito Cereno)

第7週 Mark Twain (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter XV, Chapter XIX)

第8週 Henry James (Daisy Miller: A Study; The Real Thing)

第9週 Sarah Orne Jewett (A White Heron); Kate Chopin (At the Cadian Ball; The Storm)

第10週 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wall-paper)

第11週 Edith Wharton (The Age of Innocence, Chapter XVIII)

第12週 William Dean Howells (Novel Writing and Novel Reading); Henry James (The Art of
Fiction)

第13週 Frank Norris (A Plea for Romantic Fiction); Jack (What Life Means to Me)

第14週 Theodore Dreiser ( True Art Speaks Plainly; Sister Carrie, Chapter 1, 3)

第15週 Stephen Crane (The Open Boat; The Blue Hotel; Red Badge of Courage: Chapter XXIV)

第16週 Jack London (To Build a Fire); Frederick Jackson Turner ( from The Significance of the