Course details

Name: ENGL - 326

Title: EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2010

Credits: 3

Description:
This course can be defined best as an American Studies course, for we will be reading many different kinds of texts: prose narratives, poems, sermons, political documents, religious statements, Native American oral texts, drama, and fiction. Also, we will be talking about these writings in different contexts: historical, social, political, religious, and, of course, literary. We will be concentrating on themes that have run through American life from its beginnings to about 1800, and we will ask what makes these issues or themes or concerns particularly American. What you know about American history and American political theory will be most useful. Finally, we can come to understand much of what we are by tracing the lines back to what we were. Requirements include reading selections from earliest Native American myths, Columbus, the Puritans, 17th -century poetry, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Franklin, Tom Paine, Jefferson, early African-American slave narratives, and 18th-century drama and fiction. A midterm, final, two critical papers, and perhaps some shorter papers complete the requirements.

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Alyce (millera)

Is course canceled: No