Unit 1
- Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996
Unit 2
-Bercovitch, Sacvan. "The Puritan Vision of the New World". Emory Elliot, ed. Columbia Literary History of the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988
-House, Kay S. Reality and Myth in American Literature. New York: Fawcett, 1966.
-Lewis, R.W.B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.
-Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956
-Poirier, Richard. A Place Elsewhere. The Place of Style in American Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1966.
Unit 3
-Demos, John Putnam. Entertaining Satan. Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
-Elliott, Emory, Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725-1810. Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 1982
-Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature (1923). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
-Lynn, Kenneth S. The Dream of Success. A Study of the Modern American Imagination. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1961.
Unit 4
-Hellmann, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
-Kolodny, Annette. The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontier, 1630-1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
-Seydor, Paul. "The Masculine Principle in American Art and Expression". Peckinpah: the Western Films. University of Illinois Press, 1980.
-Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1973.
-Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970
Unit 5
-Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
-Smith, Valerie. Self-Discovery and Authority in Afro-American Narrative. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
- Sundquist, Eric J. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993.
- Wilson, Clyde N (ed.). Why the South Will Survive. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1981.
Unit 6
-Shi, David E. Facing Facts. Realism in American Thought and Culture (1850-1920). New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
-Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
-Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself (1959), The Presidential Papers (1963), Cannibals and Christians (1966).