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EN265

Inventing America

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2025, Brantford

Topics

American literature before the twentieth century
national identity and exceptionalism
excluded and displaced peoples
literary forms, conflicting perspectives, and critical interpretation.

Readings

Robert Levine et al., The Norton Anthology of American Literature, shorter 10th edition, volume 1.
Required
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, edited by Laura R. Fisher, Norton (2019).
Required

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
Public syllabus copy ↗Fall 2025, Brantford
The syllabus requires the bookstore bundle so selections and page numbers match. The public copy's anthology publication year appears inconsistent with its stated edition; the edition is preserved here without inferring a correction.