ENGL203

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ENGL203

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

Crosslistings: AMST155

Fall 96 Availability (Last Updated on Thu Apr 17 05:01:13 EDT 1997 )

Section  Limit  Enrollment  Available
  01       70      0         70

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

To be announced

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

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. This course counts toward the department's historicity and pre-1800 requirements.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA ENGL

Prerequisites: None

Section 01: Slotkin, R; Times: M.W.... 1:10PM;; Grading Mode: A/F; Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 1, Fr: 1; No Major Preference Given

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997

About the Photo:

Frederick Douglass

Reference:

Douglass, Grederick, LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, New York, New York:The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, 1962

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