American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865

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Course focuses on the culturally diverse literatures of early America up to the end of the Civil War. Course will cover such works as oral stories by Native Americans, writings by early European explorers and colonists, narratives and poetry by enslaved Africans, abolitionists, and free Black Americans, novels and poetry by women as well as the literatures of the American Renaissance broadly understood. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.