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

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Academic Year 2004/2005

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 John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

MAJOR READINGS

Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
HEATH ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, Vol. 1
Cooper, LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Melville, MOBY DICK

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

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): Slotkin,Richard S.

Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: SCIE150;

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 160)

SR. major: 0 Jr. major: 0

SR. non-major: 40 Jr. non-major: 40 SO: 40 FR: 40

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Last Updated on MAR-21-2005