American Literature I

Catalog description

A survey of American writing from the Colonial era to the Civil War, this course features canonical writers and marginalized voices from Euro-American, African-American and Native-American traditions, including such distinct American genres as captivity stories and slavery narratives. Texts are considered in the historical and intellectual contexts of Puritanism, Romanticism, Transcendentalism. The course satisfies requirements for both the English major and the General Education Literature elective. Prerequisite(s): EH 105 or EH 124.