American Experience: American Gothic

Spring 2002

Bridget M. Marshall

Course Packet Table of Contents/Bibliography

 The course packet is available at Copy Cat in downtown Amherst.

Mather, Cotton. “Remarks Concerning the Accused.” On Witchcraft (1693). Reprinted Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1950 (?). 169.

Mather, Cotton. “A Further Account of the Tryals.” On Witchcraft (1693). Reprinted Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1950 (?). 170 - 172.

Mather, Cotton. “The Tryal of Bridget Bishop.” On Witchcraft (1693). Reprinted Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press, 1950 (?). 106 – 113.

Lawson, Deodat.  “A brief and true narrative” Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 – 1706.  Ed. George Lincoln Burr.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972.  152 – 164.

“Letters of Governor Phips” Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648 – 1706.  Ed. George Lincoln Burr.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972.  198 – 202.

Mappen, Marc.  “New Directions.” Witches & historians : Interpretations of Salem.  Huntington, N.Y. : R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1980. 92 - 117.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. “Alice Doan’s Appeal”  Hawthorne’s Short Stories.  Ed Newton Arvin.  New York: Vintage Books, 1946. 350 – 363.

Freeman, Mary Wilkins. “The Witch’s Daughter.”  The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman.  Ed Mary R. Reighardt.  Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 1992.  125 –130.

James W. Loewen: “Celebrating Genocide.”  Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong.  New York: The New Press, 1999.  415 – 418.

James W. Loewen: “Red Eyes.” Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.  New York: The New Press, 1995.

Irving, Washington. “Traits of Indian Character” The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.  New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1895.  149 – 167.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha Boston:  Ticknor and Fields, 1855. 3 – 19.

Zitkala-Sa “The Soft-Hearted Sioux.” American Indian Stories. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1979.  109 – 125.

Jackson, Helen Hunt.  American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology.  Ed. Cheryl Walker.  New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1995. 278 – 291.

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.  “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)  Four Stories by American Women.  Ed Cynthia Griffin Wolff.  New York: Penguin, 1990.  41 – 58.

William Faulkner: “A Rose for Emily” Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner.  New York: Random House, 1961.  49 – 61.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Black Cat”  Tales of Mystery and Imagination. London: Everyman’s Library, 1971.  518-527.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “ To Helen” Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Essays on Poetry.  Ed C. H. Sisson.  Manchester:  Carnet Press Ltd, 1995.  1.

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven” Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Essays on Poetry.  Ed C. H. Sisson.  Manchester:  Carnet Press Ltd, 1995.  1 – 5.

Whitman, Sarah Helen. American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology.  Ed. Cheryl Walker.  New Brunswick: Rutgers U P, 1995.  53 –63.

Chesnutt,  Charles W. “The Goophered Grapevine” The Conjure Woman.  (1899) Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968. 1 –35.

Chesnutt,  Charles W. “’Po Sandy” The Conjure Woman.  (1899) Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968.  36 – 63.

Chesnutt,  Charles W. “Sis’ Becky’s Pickaninny” The Conjure Woman.  (1899) Ridgewood, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968. 132 – 161.