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Comprehensive Examination Reading Lists

Overview of Comprehensive Examination

Part II Primary Text(s)

Standard Reading Lists for Historical Period Portion of the Comprehensive Examination

American Literature: Beginnings to 1865

American Literature: 1865-1914

American Literature: 1914 to present

British Literature: Medieval

British Literature: Renaissance

British Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century

British Literature: Nineteenth Century

British Literature: Twentieth Century

Children's & Young Adult Literature

Composition, Rhetoric, and Language

World Literature: European: Classical

World Literature: European: Middle Ages to 1600

World Literature: European: 1600-1800

World Literature: European: 1800-1900

World Literature: European: 1900-1945

World Literature: European: 1945 to present

World Literature: Third World/Post-Colonial: Classical (up to 1660)

World Literature: Third World/Post-Colonial: Age of Independence (1660-1947)

World Literature: Third World/Post-Colonial: Independence and After (1947 to present)

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