Early American Literature

Catalog description

This is asurvey course which introduces students to awide range of authors from 1492 to 1865, the colonial period to the Civil War. The course will celebrate the rich diversity of American cultural heritage, including the study of the work of Native Americans, African-Americans, women, and Latino/awriters. Students will begin to appreciate the rich cultural heritage of America, and to see comparisons and contrasts between male and female writers, one ethnic group and another, and one social class and another. The metaphor of American Literature Ishall be a “mosaic of American writers.”