American Literature From the Colonial Period to the Civil War

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from ENGL at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department A study of American Literature from its beginnings to 1865. This course focuses on various canonical texts which have become central to American culture and self-understanding; however, the course also makes room for voices of dissent, for those who criticized colonial practices and, after 1776, the newly formed United States of America. Finally, the course will consider various literary responses to what was called the "peculiar institution" that would ultimately divide the nation: slavery. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: ENGL 3711 Early American Literature)