American Literature
84 Lectures on American Literature by Dr. Arnold Weinstein, the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor at Brown University.
These lectures are from The Great Courses
- Explain the roles of self-reliance and the “self-made man” in the evolution of American literature
- Identify the tenets of American Romanticism
- Describe the evolution of the American ghost story, from Poe and Hawthorne to James and Morrison
- Outline the epic strain in American literature, from Melville and Whitman to Faulkner and Ellison
- Explain the importance of slavery as a critical subject for Stowe, Twain, Faulkner, and Morrison
- Summarize perspectives on nature revealed in poets Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, and Eliot
- Identify the tenets of Modernism in the work of Eliot, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner
- Identify the contributions of O’Neill, Miller, and Williams to American theater
- Summarize the threads of the complex relationship between America’s great writers and the past.
Lecture-01-Introduction-to-Classics-of-American-Literature.
Lecture-02-Benjamin-Franklins-Autobiography_-The-First-American-Story.
Lecture-03-Washington-Irving_-The-First-American-Storyteller.
Lecture-04-Ralph-Waldo-Emerson-Yesterday_-Americas-Coming-of-Age.
Lecture-05-Emerson-Today-Archiitect of American Values
Lecture-06-Emerson-Tomorrow_-Deconstructing-Culture-and-Self.
Lecture-07-Henry-David-Thoreau_-Countercultural-Hero.
Lecture-08-Thoreau_-Stylist-and-Humorist-Extraordinaire.
Lecture-09-Walden_-Yesterday-Today-and-Tomorrow.
Lecture-10-Edgar-Allan-Poe.
Lecture-11-Poe_-Ghost-Writer.
Lecture-12-Poes-Legacy_-The-Self-as-Haunted-Palace.
Lecture-13-Nathaniel-Hawthorne-and-the-American-Past.
Lecture-14-The-Scarlet-Letter_-Puritan-Romance.
Lecture-15-Hawthornes-A_-Interpretation-and-Semiosis.
Lecture-16-The-Scarlet-Letter_-Political-Tract-or-Psychological-Study.
Lecture-17-Hawthorne-Our-Contemporary.
Lecture-18-Herman-Melville-and-the-Making-of-Moby-Dick.
Lecture-19-The-Biggest-Fish-Story-of-Them-All.
Lecture-20-Ahab-and-the-White-Whale.
Lecture-21-Moby-Dick_-Tragedy-of-Perspective.
Lecture-22-Melvilles-Benito-Cereno_-American-Misadventure-at-Sea.
Lecture-23-Benito-Cereno_-Theater-of-Power-or-Power-of-Theater
Lecture-24-Walt-Whitman_-The-American-Bard-Appears.
Lecture-25-Whitman_-Poet-of-the-Body.
Lecture-26-Whitman_-Poet-of-the-City
Lecture-27-Whitman_-Poet-of-Death.
Lecture-28-The-Whitman-Legacy.
Lecture-29-Uncle-Toms-Cabin_-The-Unread-Classic.
Lecture-30-Stowes-Representation-of-Slavery.
Lecture-31-Freedom-and-Art-in-Uncle-Toms-Cabin.
Lecture-32-Emily-Dickinson_-In-and-Out-of-Nature.
Lecture-33-Dickinsons-Poetry_-Language-and-Consciousness.
Lecture-34-Dickinson_-Devotee-of-Death.
Lecture-35-Dickinson_-Amhersts-Madame-de-Sade.
Lecture-36-Dickinsons-Legacy.
Lecture-37-The-Adventures-of-Tom-Sawyer_-American-Paradise-Regained.
Lecture-38-Huckleberry-Finn_-The-Banned-Classic.
Lecture-39-Huckleberry-Finn_-A-Childs-Voice-a-Childs-Vision.
Lecture-40-Huckleberry-Finn-American-Orphan.
Lecture-41-Mark-Twains-Puddnhead-Wilson_-Black-and-White-Charade.
Lecture-42-Henry-James-and-the-Novel-of-Perception.
Lecture-43-The-Turn-of-the-Screw_-Do-You-Believe-in-Ghosts.
Lecture-44-Turning-the-Screw-of-Interpretation.
Lecture-45-Stephen-Crane-and-the-Literature-of-War.
Lecture-46-The-Red-Badge-of-Courage_-Brave-New-World.
Lecture-47-Stephen-Crane_-Scientist-of-Human-Behavior.
Lecture-48-Charlotte-Perkins-Gilman_-War-Against-Patriarchy.
Lecture-49-The-Yellow-Wallpaper_-Descent-into-Hell-or-Free-at-Last.
Lecture-50- Robert Frost and the-Spirit of New England
Lecture-51-Robert-Frost_-At-Home-in-the-Metaphor.
Lecture-52-Robert-Frost-and-the-Fruits-of-the-Earth.
Lecture-53-T.S.-Eliot_-Unloved-Modern-Classic.
Lecture-54-T.S.-Eliot_-The-Waste-Land-and-Beyond.
Lecture-55-F.-Scott-Fitzgeralds-The-Great-Gatsby_-American-Romance.
Lecture-56-The-Great-Gatsby_-A-Story-of-Lost-Illusions.
Lecture-57-Fitzgeralds-Triumph_-Writing-the-American-Dream.
Lecture-58-Ernest-Hemingways-The-Sun-Also-Rises_-Novel-of-the-Lost-Generation.
Lecture-59-The-Sun-Also-Rises_-Spiritual-Quest.
Lecture-61-Hemingways-The-Garden-of-Eden_-Female-Desire-Unleashed.
Lecture-62-The-Garden-of-Eden_-Combat-Zone
Lecture-63-William-Faulkners-The-Sound-and-the-Fury_-The-Idiots-Tale.
Lecture-64-The-Sound-and-the-Fury_-Failed-Rites-of-Passage.
Lecture-65-The-Sound-and-the-Fury_-Signifying-Nothing.
Lecture-66-Absalom-Absalom_-Civil-War-Epic.
Lecture-67-Absalom-Absalom_-The-Language-of-Love.
Lecture-68-Absalom-Absalom_-The-Overpass-to-Love.
Lecture-69-The-Grapes-of-Wrath_-American-Saga.
Lecture-70-John-Steinbeck_-Poet-of-the-Little-Man.
Lecture-71-The-Grapes-of-Wrath_-Reconceiving-Self-and-Family.
Lecture-72-Invisible-Man_-Black-Bildungsroman.
Lecture-73-Invisible-Man_-Reconceiving-History-and-Race
Lecture-74-Invisible-Man_-What-Did-I-Do-to-Be-So-Black-and-Blue.
Lecture-75-Eugene-ONeill_-Great-God-of-American-Theater.
Lecture-76-Long-Days-Journey-Into-Night_-Theres-No-Place-Like-Home.
Lecture-77-Tennessee-Williams_-Managing-Libido
Lecture-78-A-Streetcar-Named-Desire_-The-Death-of-Romance
Lecture-79-Death-of-a-Salesman_-Death-of-an-Ethos.
Lecture-80-Death-of-a-Salesman_-Tragedy-of-the-American-Dream
Lecture-81-Toni-Morrisons-Beloved_-Dismembering-and-Remembering
Lecture-82-Beloved_-A-Story-of-Thick-Love
Lecture-83-Beloved_-Morrisons-Writing-of-the-Body
Lecture-84-Conclusion-to-Classics-of-American-Literature

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