American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War
ENGL 203
Fall 2022 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 243 |
This lecture course marks a path through American literature, moving from European fantasies and narratives of the conquest of the New World to representations of slavery, industrialization, and U.S. national expansion. Historical sweep is coupled with textual focus: we will concentrate on a small number of works, shuttling between close reading and historical synthesis. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature) |
Major Readings:
Mary Rowlandson, THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD (1682)
Jonathan Edwards, selected sermons
Phillis Wheatley, POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS (1773)
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (1776)
THE FEDERALIST (1787-88)
Olaudah Equiano, INTERESTING NARRATIVE (1789)
Benjamin Franklin, AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1790)
Judith Sargent Murray, "On the Equality of the Sexes" (1790)
Tecumseh, "Speech to the Osages" (1811-12)
Washington Irving, "Rip Van Winkle" (1819), "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820)
David Walker, APPEAL TO THE COLORED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD (1829)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, NATURE (1836)
Edgar Allan Poe, selected stories
Frederick Douglass, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM (1855)
Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1856) and "The Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids" (1855)
Henry David Thoreau, "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)
Fanny Fern, selected pieces
Emily Dickinson, selected poems
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, selected poems
Walt Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS (1855)
Terry Bisson, FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN (1988)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four exams, including a midterm and a cumulative final. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Contributes to fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: Lit Hist 2, Amer. Lit., elective |
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