ENGL203 - American Literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War

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Academic Year 2003/2004

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

Crosslistings:
AMST 155

Through lecture and discussion, this introduction to early American literature will acquaint students with key formal trends and thematic concerns of American writing from 1492 to the Civil War. The course will pay special attention to how writers in and of America have labored to create (or retain) cultural and national identity by rewriting a sense of place into symbolic space. Texts will be drawn from such writers as Cabeza de Vaca, John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Thomas Paine, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

MAJOR READINGS

Benjamin Franklin's AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Olaudah Equiano's THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE, James Fenimore Cooper's THE PIONEERS, Herman Melville's BENITO CERENO, and Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Weekly response papers, in-class mid-term, and take-home final.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Beginning with the class of 2004 this course will not count towards the department's pre-1800 requirement.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Emerson,Amanda M.

Times: ..T.R.. 09:00AM-10:20AM; Location: PAC107

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 40)

SR. major: 5 Jr. major: 10

SR. non-major: 5 Jr. non-major: 5 SO: 10 FR: 5

Special Attributes:

SECTION 02