Course details

Name: ENGL - 333

Title: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
The course focuses on American Romanticism of the nineteenth century. The American Renaissance is one of the most fruitful periods of American literature, ca. 1830-1860. The course includes Romantics, like Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, and the Transcendentalists (Margaret Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau). We also will read the poets Whitman and Dickinson. And we will read authors who write about the political landscape, changing gender roles, and reform movements (among these abolition, women's rights, philanthropy), and new ways of thinking (philosophical movements). Other writers include Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Jacobs, Fanny Fern, and Frederick Douglass.

Last updated on 2023-10-23 By Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 12:45 pm To 2:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• 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