American Literature to 1865
ENGL 203
Fall 2026
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 243 |
This lecture course charts a selective path through the English-language literatures of conflict in North America. Our optic will be double: one eye on history, the other on literary form, and we will experiment with ways of dialectically combining these two lines of vision. The scope of the course is wide, but we will proceed in the style of an anti-survey. Rather than unifying America through a gathering of textual parts, we will attempt to understand how literary forms supply an important index of historical evidence even as their pleasures and contradictions refuse the stabilities of the evidentiary. |
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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: (American Studies)(English) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Mary Rowlandson, THE SOVEREIGNTY AND GOODNESS OF GOD, ed. Neil Salisbury, 2nd. Ed. (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2017). ISBN 978-1319048815.
Benjamin Franklin, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ed. Joyce Chaplin (Norton Critical Ed., 2012). ISBN 978-0393935615.
David Walker, APPEAL TO THE COLOURED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, ed. Peter Hinks (U Pennsylvania Press, 2000). ISBN 978-0271019949.
Frederick Douglass, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM, ed. John David Smith (Penguin, 2003). ISBN 9780140439182.
Herman Melville, BILLY BUDD, BARTLEBY AND OTHER STORIES, ed. Peter Coviello (Penguin, 2016). ISBN 9780143107606.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Midterm and final exams that include both short-answer and essay components. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
Class visit to Special Collections in Olin Library.
Contributes to the fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: AL, LH2 |
| Instructor(s): Bilbija,Marina Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 45 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 45 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 4 | JR non-major: 4 | SO: 14 | FR: 15 |
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