American Studies: Undergraduate course
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Background reading: introductory
- Howard Temperley and Christopher Bigsby (eds.), A New Introduction to American Studies (Pearson Education Limited)
- Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the USA (Penguin)
- Mick Gidley (ed.), Modern American Culture (Longman)
- John Belton, American Cinema/American Culture (McGraw-Hill)
- Eric Foner, Give me Liberty: An American History (Norton)
Background reading: advanced
- Malcolm Bradbury, Modern American Fiction (Oxford)
- Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, Keywords for American Cultural Studies (NYU Press)
- Neil Campbell and Alastair Kean, American Cultural Studies (Routledge)
- John Hill and Pamela Gibson (eds.), American Cinema and Hollywood (Oxford)
- William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey (Oxford)
- Douglas Tallack, Twentieth-Century America (Longman)
Literature
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Penguin)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin (Penguin)
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin)
- Don Delillo, Libra (Penguin)
- Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (Picador)
- Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin)
History
- George Tindall and David Shi, America: A Narrative History (Norton)
- Paul Boyer et al., The Enduring Vision (Houghton Mifflin)
- Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press)
- Roger Daniels, Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (HarperCollins)
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (Longman)
- Walter LaFeber, The American Age: US Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to the present (Norton)
Politics
- David McKay, American Politics and Society (Blackwell)
- Robert McKeever and Philip Davies, Politics USA (Longman)
- Robert Singh, Governing America (Oxford)
- Thomas Dye, Politics in America (Pearson)
- Gillian Peele, Developments in American Politics (Oxford)
- David McKay, Controversies in American Politics and Society (Blackwell)