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Season 1

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1918490
  • Created April 10, 2021
  • Modified April 19, 2025
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S01E01 Introduction to Classics of American Literature
S01E02 Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography - The First American Story
S01E03 Washington Irving - The First American Storyteller
S01E04 Ralph Waldo Emerson Yesterday - America's Coming of Age
S01E05 Emerson Today - Architecture of American Values
S01E06 Emerson Tomorrow - Deconstructing Culture and Self
S01E07 Henry David Thoreau - Countercultural Hero
S01E08 Thoreau - Stylist and Humorist Extraordinaire
S01E09 Walden - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
S01E10 Edgar Allan Poe
S01E11 Poe - Ghost Writer
S01E12 Poe's Legacy - The Self as "Haunted Palace"
S01E13 Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Past
S01E14 The Scarlet Letter - Puritan Romance
S01E15 Hawthorne's "A" - Interpretation and Semiosis
S01E16 The Scarlet Letter - Political Tract or Psychological Study?
S01E17 Hawthorne Our Contemporary
S01E18 Herman Melville and the Making of Moby-Dick
S01E19 The Biggest Fish Story of Them All
S01E20 Ahab and the White Whale
S01E21 Moby-Dick - Tragedy of Perspective
S01E22 Melville's "Benito Cereno" - American (Mis)adventure at Sea
S01E23 "Benito Cereno" - Theater of Power or Power of Theater?
S01E24 Walt Whitman - The American Bard Appears
S01E25 Whitman - Poet of the Body
S01E26 Whitman - Poet of the City
S01E27 Whitman - Poet of Death
S01E28 The Whitman Legacy
S01E29 Uncle Tom's Cabin - The Unread Classic
S01E30 Stowe's Representation of Slavery
S01E31 Freedom and Art in Uncle Tom's Cabin
S01E32 Emily Dickinson - In and Out of Nature
S01E33 Dickinson's Poetry - Language and Consciousness
S01E34 Dickinson - Devotee of Death
S01E35 Dickinson - "Amherst's Madame de Sade"
S01E36 Dickinson's Legacy
S01E37 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - American Paradise Regained
S01E38 Huckleberry Finn - The Banned Classic
S01E39 Huckleberry Finn - A Child's Voice, a Child's Vision
S01E40 Huckleberry Finn, American Orphan
S01E41 Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson - Black and White Charade
S01E42 Henry James and the Novel of Perception
S01E43 The Turn of the Screw - Do You Believe in Ghosts?
S01E44 Turning of the Screw of Interpretation
S01E45 Stephen Crane and the Literature of War
S01E46 The Red Badge of Courage - Brave New World
S01E47 Stephen Crane - Scientist of Human Behavior
S01E48 Charlotte Perkins Gilman - War Against Patriarchy
S01E49 "The Yellow Wallpaper" - Descent into Hell or Free at Last?
S01E50 Robert Frost and the Spirit of New England
S01E51 Robert Frost - "At Home in the Metaphor"
S01E52 Robert Frost and the Fruits of the Earth
S01E53 T.S. Eliot - Unloved Modern Classic
S01E54 T.S. Eliot - "The Waste Land" and Beyond
S01E55 F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby - American Romance
S01E56 The Great Gatsby - A Story of Lost Illusions?
S01E57 Fitzgerald's Triumph - Writing the American Dream
S01E58 Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises - Novel of the Lost Generation
S01E59 The Sun Also Rises - Spiritual Quest
S01E60 Ernest Hemingway - Wordsmith
S01E61 Hemingway's The Garden of Eden - Female Desire Unleashed
S01E62 The Garden of Eden - Combat Zone
S01E63 William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury - The Idiot's Tale
S01E64 The Sound and the Fury - Failed Rites of Passage
S01E65 The Sound and the Fury - Signifying Nothing?
S01E66 Absalom, Absalom! - Civil War Epic
S01E67 Absalom, Absalom! - The Language of Love
S01E68 Absalom, Absalom! - The Overpass to Love
S01E69 The Grapes of Wrath - American Saga
S01E70 John Steinbeck - Poet of the Little Man
S01E71 The Grapes of Wrath - Reconceiving Self and Family
S01E72 Invisible Man - Black Bildungsroman
S01E73 Invisible Man - Reconceiving History and Race
S01E74 Invisible Man - "What Did I Do, to Be So Black and Blue?"
S01E75 Eugene O'Neill - Great God of American Theater
S01E76 Long Day's Journey Into Night - There's No Place Like Home
S01E77 Tennessee Williams - Managing Libido
S01E78 A Streetcar Named Desire - The Death of Romance
S01E79 Death of a Salesman - Death of an Ethos?
S01E80 Death of a Salesman - Tragedy of the American Dream
S01E81 Toni Morrison's Beloved - Dismembering and Remembering
S01E82 Beloved - A Story of "Thick Love"
S01E83 Beloved - Morrison's Writing of the Body
S01E84 Conclusion to Classics of American Literature

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