Early American Literature: Revolution and Nation

3-4 Credits

This class explores how early American novelists and poets—men and women, free and enslaved—thought about the revolutionary ideas that had founded the nation. How do novels and poetry think about liberty and freedom? How do they balance the claims of individuals and the claims of the community? How do they define the “people” or the “nation”—and who gets excluded from these categories? Attribute/Distribution: HE, W