Selections from American Literature I

Course content

This course surveys the literary, cultural, philosophical, religious, social and economic dimensions of the Pre-colonial, Revolutionary, Romantic, early 19th century periods through a chronological study of major authors and their writing. Included on the reading list are Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Washington Irwing, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.