The Norton anthology world literature

VOLUME E: Revolutions, Romanticism, Realism

Equiano, “Narrative”

Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

William Blake, “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”

Wordsworth, all

Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

Tolstoy, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”

Ichiyo, “Separate Ways”

Thesis (What are you emotion?) Topic, position, Reasons (Setting is the most important)

These papers do not require outside research.  Avoid lengthy plot summary; assume a reader who has read the assigned literature.  Instead of plot summary, concentrate on presenting a strong central thesis about the literature.