US Literature pre-20th Century

Undergraduate

A study of US texts in the major genres as well as autobiography, sermons, and political writing from early Indigenous orature to cultural representations of slavery and its abolition to the emergence of Transcendentalism, Realism and Naturalism. Authors may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Zitkála-Šá, Douglass, Whitman, Poe, Melville, Dickinson, Wharton, Gilman, Chopin. (Prerequisite: Semester two standing.) (Credit cannot be obtained for both ENGL-2220 and ENGL-2709, ENGL-3719, ENGL-3729 or ENGL-3739.)