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Academic Year 2000/2001

American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War
ENGL 203 FA

Crosslistings: 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 Cabeza de Vaca, John Underhill, John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.

MAJOR READINGS

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list: NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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