Seminar in U.S. Literatures before 1900

3 units · Graduate

Topics include: American authors (Poe, Melville); history of genres, forms, and media (poetry, U.S. serial fiction); intensive study of 'periods' (the early Republic, the 1890s). Prereq: Grad standing, or permission of instructor. Not open to students with credit for 850. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 cr hrs.