Course details

Name: ENGL - 333

Title: AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
The American Renaissance is one of the most fruitful periods of American literature, ca. 1830-1860. Authors include Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, the Transcendentalists (Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau), Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Fanny Fern, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and others. We will analyze literary texts to understand the changing gender roles, social conflicts, reform movements (among these, abolition, women's rights, philanthropy), and philosophical movements in the young democracy. We will also look at the innovations these American authors were making--innovations that set them apart from their English peers.

Last updated on 2015-10-28 By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 am

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)
  • Women and Gender Studies (3c)
  • Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No