ENGL 3610 - American Renaissance, 1820-1860

5 credit hours
Formerly - ENGL 374

A study of nineteenth-century antebellum American literature, including texts by Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Poe, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Special attention to the way in which these texts engage issues such as revolution, slavery, nationalism, westward expansion, women’s rights, democracy, and war. AM

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