Early American Literature

Catalog description

A study of the literary genres that emerged from the colonization of North America and the establishment of the federal republic of the United States, with a focus on the role of literature in defining American national identity. Readings will include histories, journals, sermons, poems, autobiographies, and novels by authors including John Winthop, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, as well as explorers, Indigenous people, and other early national authors.