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ENG 20430 Modern American Literature

Summer Reading for ENG20430: Modern American Literature 2010-2011

Students are advised that the texts/writers listed below are confirmed for next year’s course:


Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Virago)

William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (any edition)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (Penguin, 1934 edition ONLY: Please note there are differences between the two editions)

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (any edition)

From the New Anthology of American Poetry: Modernisms, eds., Axelrod, Roman and Travisano (Rutgers University Press), the work of the following poets:

T.S. Eliot
Langston Hughes
Marianne Moore
William Carlos Williams




Dr Maria Stuart
Dr Fionnghuala Sweeney
(Convenors of Modern American Literature)