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CS92PROD
American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War
ENGL 203
Fall 2006
Section: 01  
Crosslisting: AMST 155

This course includes lectures with discussion tracing the rise of American literature from 16th-century narratives of exploration and conquest to the mid-19th century. Texts will be situated within the context of major social and cultural transformations. Texts to be studied will be drawn from such writers as Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

Essential Capabilities: None
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL
Course Format: LectureGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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