Course details

Name: ENGL - 556

Title: POE HAWTHORNE AND MELVILLE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
Course Objective: 1) To introduce you to one of the most fruitful periods of American literature, the American Renaissance, through close attention to three major writers of the period; 2) to help you understand and appreciate how these writers developed an American literature, distinct from British literature, and established American traditions of writing and thinking; 3) to introduce you to current theory in the study of American literature, with an emphasis on race, gender, class, and ecology, areas that reflect current trends in literary criticism; and 4) to investigate how the Romantic notion of the “sublime” was redefined through the lens of these writers’ eyes.

Last updated on 2019-11-14 By Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)

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

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 American (TE 1c)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No