Il survey course PER 9 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi:
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
Olaudah Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (1789)
-Mary Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682) ;
-Declaration of Independence (1776);
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", “The Raven”, "The Philosophy of Composition”;
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" (1850);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass” (1855), “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”;
-Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—”.

Bibliografia critica:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferibilmente la 8th Shorter Edition, altrimenti qualsiasi edizione disponibile in biblioteca):
LITERATURE TO 1620: Introduction and Timeline
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE 1620-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUZIONE AI SINGOLI AUTORI DEL PROGRAMMA E DI QUELLI SCELTI PER LA READING LIST;
-ELLIOTT, Emory, a cura di, Storia della civiltà letteraria degli Stati Uniti, Torino, UTET, 1990, 2 Voll., Vol. I pp. 28-37; 83-92; 171-188; ;
FISHER, Benjamin, "Poe and the American Short Story", in BENDIXEN, Alfred and NAGEL, James, ed. by, A Companion to the America Short-Story, Blackwell, 2010, pp. 20-34;
RYAN, Steven T., "A Guide to Melville’s 'Bartleby,
the Scrivener'”, in BENDIXEN, Alfred and NAGEL, James, ed. by, A Companion to the America Short-Story, Blackwell, 2010, pp. 35-62;
Un saggio a scelta tra Michael Davitt Belll, “Arts of Deception: Hawthorne, ‘Romance’ and The Scarlet Letter”; David Van Leer, “Hester’s Labyrinth: Transcendental Rhetorica in Puritan Boston”; Michael J. Colacurcio, “‘The Woman’s Own Chioce’: Sex, Metaphor, and the Puritan ‘Sources’ of The Scarlet Letter”, tutti presenti in New Essays on The Scarlet Letter, ed. by Michael J. COLACURCIO, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Il survey course PER 6 CFU prevede la discussione dei seguenti testi:
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
Olaudah Equiano, "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" (1789)
-Mary Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682);
Declaration of Independence (1776);
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", “The Raven”, "The Philosophy of Composition”;
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" (1850);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass” (1855), “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”;
-Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—”.

Bibliografia critica:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferibilmente la 8th Shorter Edition, altrimenti qualsiasi edizione disponibile in biblioteca):
LITERATURE TO 1620: Introduction and Timeline
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE 1620-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline
INTRODUZIONE AI SINGOLI AUTORI DEL PROGRAMMA E DI QUELLI SCELTI PER LA READING LIST;
-ELLIOTT, Emory, a cura di, Storia della civiltà letteraria degli Stati Uniti, Torino, UTET, 1990, 2 Voll., Vol. I pp. 28-37; 83-92; 171-188.