19th Century American Prose
The 19th century is the century for American literature as far as the GRE goes. Expect a fair amount of questions from this section.
Edgar Allen Poe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
H.L. Mencken
James Fenimore Cooper
Kate Chopin
Stephen Crane
Theodore Dresier
Herman Melville *
Harriet Jacobs
Nathaniel Hawthorne *
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Paul Laurence Dunbar