ENGH254

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American Literature Pre-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

English College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ENGH

Course Number

254

Status

Active

Course Attributes

BHUM: GenEd-Breadth/Humanities, CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, PPD: GenEd-Power/Privilege/Diff, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature

Course Short Title

American Literature Pre-1900

Course Long Title

American Literature Pre-1900: Mapping the Anglo-American Literary Tradition

Course Description

Explores the dynamic relations among author, reader, theme, form, culture, and text in America through an examination of representative texts from the founding of the US to the turn of the twentieth century. Emphasizes the transnational roots of American literature, exploring the multiplicity of contexts from which a national literature emerges. Topics may include literary nationalism, Native American protest literature, race, slavery and freedom, the Gothic, transcendentalism, gender and sexuality, the novel, realism, urbanization, and US imperialism. Authors may include Paine, Jefferson, Brown, Wheatley, Irving, Apess, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, James, Chesnutt, Twain, Gilman, and Du Bois.

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4

Repeatable

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