List of Best American Literature Dissertation Ideas for College

Diverse cultures welcomed into the United States gave way to different types of literature that have evolved over the century. Different websites such as those of undergraduate schools offer great ideas for writing topics. Similarly, book clubs with websites have lists of topics that can be fashioned to fit high school level. You can also get more resources from (Another website). Below is a list of challenging topics.

• Kate Chopin was ahead of her time as a female author
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott captures the culture, social life, and values of19th Century American middle class
• Family relations, unselfishness and perseverance are shown in novels authored by Louisa MayAlcott
• The tension between speculators who had control of the western lands and farmers in the late 19th Centuryhas been dramatized by Hamlin Garlandin “Under theLion’sPaw.”
• Hamlin Garland portrays in his poetry, realistic images of wind and grass on the Prairies
• William Sydney Porter used New York City to master surprise endings for his short stories
• Henry’s “The Ransom of Red Chief,” humorous and energetic is similar to Mark Twain
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman paints a realistic portrait of first person account of an emotionally starved but physically-pampered wife that went through a mental breakdown in “The Yellow Wallpaper.”
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s comes out as women’s causes advocate through her suffrage books and songs
• The comparison between Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Susan B. Anthony suffrage writing
• Booker T. Washington through his speeches and writings showed his dignity of work belief
• Frank Norris shows the reader a comic side on subjects such as wife battery
• Frank Norris uses makes assumptions based on gender creating violently aggressive husbands and submissive wives
• In ‘The Call of the Wild and White Fang’ Jack London combines humanitarianism with realism
• Darwinian thinking is displayed in Jack London’s ‘South Sea Tales, a collection of Short stories.’
• The Red Pony by John Steinbeck has a recurring theme of death
• The migrant workers and California setting are used by John Steinbeckin most of his novel’s characters
• Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” masters irony
• ‘Rope’ by Katherine Anne Porter describes a relationship gone bad
• Native Son by Richard Wright is on racism and naturalistic irony
• Richard Wright’s Black Boy is an autobiographical novel where he finds meaning in individualism despite racism.
• Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘In Their Eyes Were Watching God’, is a creation for the African-American woman searching for identity in the 1920s and 1930s
• In her works, Zora Neale Hurston infuses fiction and folklore