THE 9 CREDIT COURSE includes the following texts:
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
- Cotton Mather, "The Wonders of the Invisible World" (1692);
-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);
- Hector De Crèvecoeur ""What is an American", from "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782;
- Benjamin Franklin, "The Authobiography" (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorther Eight Edition;
-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);
- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived and What I lived for", from "Walden" (1854);
-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—”.

Critical Bibliography:
-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.

THE 6 CREDIT COURSE includes the following texts:
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
- Cotton Mather, "The Wonders of the Invisible World" (1692);
-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);
- Hector De Crèvecoeur ""What is an American", from "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782;
- Benjamin Franklin, "The Authobiography" (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorther Eight Edition;
-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);
- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived and What I lived for", from "Walden" (1854);
-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—”.

Critical Bibliography:
-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.