Associate Professor Anca Peiu, PhD

AMERICAN CIVILIZATION, 2nd YEAR, ENGLISH MINOR
Bibliography
 

John Smith, A Description of New England, (1616), Vol. 1*, pp. 10-12; The General History of Virginia,(1624), pp. 392-402.
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, (1630), Vol. 1, pp. 14-24.
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Book 1, (1620-30),Vol. 1, pp. 188-210.
Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,(1741), Vol. 1, pp. 311-324;
Pesrsonal Narrative, Vol. 1, pp. 324-36.
Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and the Restoration of Mrs. Mary
Rowlandson, Vol. 1, pp. 434-68.
Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana. Nehemias Americanus, (1702), Vol. 1, pp. 281-305.
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography, (1771-1790).
Jean de Crevecoeur,”What Is an American?”, Vol. 1, pp. 116-29.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense.Part 3, “Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs”, Vol.1, pp. 674-708.
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence, Vol. 1, pp.688-92; Three
Letters: to Madison, to John Adams, vol. 1, pp.725-34. Notes on
the State of Virginia, Query IV 7 V, Vol. I, pp. 381-86. * * *
The Federalist, No. 10, 31, Vol.1, pp. 717-24.
John O’Sullivan,”The Great Nation of Futurity”, (1839),Vol.2**, pp.6-10.
R.W.Emerson, Self-Reliance.
H. D. Thoreau, Walden, (“Where I Lived and What I Lived for”), Vol. 2, pp. 112-20.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, (Of Individualism).
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, (Norton, p. 1464);“First Inaugural Address”, Vol. 2, pp. 338-45.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Norton, pp. 1866-1945).
F.J. Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893), Vol. 2, pp. 80-87.
Sarah Margaret Fuller, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”(1855), Vol. 2, pp. 222-26.
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (“Conspicuous Leisure”), Vol.2, pp. 452-55.
William James, Pragmatism (“What Pragmatism Means”,1907),The Makers, p. 1536.
George Santayana, The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy, 1911 (The
Makers, pp. 1542-54).
Lionel Trilling, Freud and Literature (The Makers, pp. 2804-12).

ANTHOLOGIES. HISTORIES

*Vol.1: J. A. Leo Lemay, ed., An American Reader.
**Vol.2 : M. Thomas Inge, ed., A Nineteenth Century American Reader
Baym, Nina et. al. (ed.) The Norton Anthology of American
Literature, 1-2, Second Edition, Norton, 1985
Brooks, Cleanth et. a. (ed.) American Literature: The Makers and The Making, I-II, St. Martin’s Press,1973
Mihaila, Rodica The American Challenge, Ed. Univ. Bucuresti 1994