Course details

Name: ENGL - 333

Title: LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This course concentrates on the major writers of the American Renaissance--Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman--as well as on selected non-canonical writers like Jacobs and Douglass. Our interest will be on interpreting the works in different ways as well as understanding the works as expressions of their time. These forty years before the Civil War was a time of literary growth and power unprecedented in America, and part of Emerson’s call for a literary declaration of independence was heeded by some of the most important writers in our history. The writers are quite different in their ideas and styles: Transcendentalism was defined by Emerson and Thoreau and redefined by Whitman; Hawthorne and Melville’s view of the dark side of humankind was the antithesis of the earlier writers; slavery was an issue to only some of them. Readings include short stories, poems, essays, autobiographies, The Scarlet Letter. Writing includes weekly short papers, a longer critical paper, midterm, and final. Participation in class is important.

Last updated on 2011-11-03 By Miller Alyce (millera)

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

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
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• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Alyce (millera)

Is course canceled: No