Course details

Name: ENGL - 333

Title: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN RENAISSANCE

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2024

Credits: 3

Description:
This 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. Authors include Romantics like 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, Emily Dickinson, 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 literary innovations these American authors were making--changes that set them apart from their English peers.

Last updated on 2024-03-16 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)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Elbert Monika (elbertm)

Is course canceled: No