Course details

Name: ENGL - 228

Title: AMERICAN LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO 1890

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2016

Credits: 3

Description:
This survey course examines the traditions and innovations of American literature from Puritan times (17th century) through the period of American literary realism in the late nineteenth century. In the early period of American literature--in the seventeenth century, we will study Puritan writings, exploration narratives, Native American texts, Indian captivity narratives and as we move through the eighteenth century, we will focus on the American Enlightenment thinkers and politicians (including Jefferson, Franklin), and from there we will move to American Romantics (including authors such as Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and the Transcendentalists, as well as abolitionist writers), and we will finish the term with a focus on Realist writers (including such authors as Stephen Crane, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, and Sarah Orne Jewett).

We travel through ca. 250 years of American literature, as we focus on literary developments as well as on cultural and historical events and thinking.

Last updated on 2016-07-25 By Harrison Kim (harrisonk)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 4:00 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Is course canceled: No