Part 1. Lecture 1 : Introduction to Classics of American Literature - Lecture 2 : Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography. The First American Story - Lecture 3 : Washington Irving, The First American Storyteller - Lecture 4 : Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday. America's Cominig of Age - Lecture 5 : Emerson Today. Architect of American Values - Lecture 6 : Emerson Tomorrow. Decostructing Culture & Self - Lecture 7 : Henry David Thoreau. Countercultural Hero - Lecture 8 : Thoreau. Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire - Lecture 9 : Walden. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Lecture 10 : Edgar Allan Poe. Poète Maudit - Lecture 11 : Ghost Writer - Lecture 11 : Poe's Legacy. The Self as "Haunted Palace" -- Part 2. Lecture 13 : Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past - Lecture 14 : The scarlet Letter. Puritan Romance - Lecture 15 : Hawthorne's "A". Interpretation and Semiosis - Lecture 16 : The scarlet letter. Political Tract or Phychological 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 : Melville's "Benito Cereno". American (Mis)Adventure at Sea - Lecture 23 : "Benito Cereno". Theater of Power, or Power of Theater - Lecture 24 : Walt Whitman. The American Bard Appears -- Part 3. 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 Tom's Cabin - Lecture 30 : Stowe's Representation of Slavery - Lecture 31 : Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin - Lecture 32 : Emily Dickinson. In and Out of Nature - Lecture 33 : Dickinson's Poetry. Language and Consciousness - Lecture 34 : Dickinson. Devotee of Death - Lecture 35 : Dickinson. "Amherst's Madame de Sade" - Lecture 36 : Dickinson's Legacy -- Part 4. Lecture 37 : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. American Paradise Regained - Lecture 38 : Huckleberry Finn. The Banned Classic - Lecture 39 : Huckleberry Finn. A Child's Voice, a Child's Vision - Lecture 40 : Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan - Lecture 41 : Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. Black & 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 : Teh Red Badge of Courage. Brave New World - Lecture 47 : Stephen Crane. Scientist of Human Behavior - Lecture 48 : Charlotte Perkins Gilman. War Against Patriarchy -- Part 5. 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 Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. American Romance - Lecture 56 : The Great Gatsby. A Story of Lost Illusions? - Lecture 57 : Fitzgerald's Triumph. Writing the American Dream - Lecture 58 : Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Novel of the Lost Generation - Lecture 59 : The Sun Also Rises. Spiritual Quest - Lecture 60 : Ernest Hemingway. Wordsmith -- Part 6. Lecture 61 : The Garden of Eden. Female Desire Unleashed - Lecture 62 : The Garden of Eden. Combat Zone - Lecture 63 : William Faulkner's The Sound & Fury. the Idiot's Tale - Lecture 64 : The Sound and Fury. Failed Rites of Passage - Lecture 65 : The Sound and 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 -- Part 7. 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 O'Neill. Great God af American Theater - Lecture 76 : Long Days Journey Into Night. There's 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. Trgedy of the American Dream - Lecture 81 : Toni Morrison's Beloved. Dismembering and Remembering - Lecture 82 : Beloved. A Story af "Thick Love" - Lecture 83 : Beloved. Morrison's Writing of the Body - Lecture 84 : Conclusions to Classics of American Literature