2021-2022 Catalog

ENG-231 American Literature to 1865

An examination of essays, poems, stories, and novels of selected authors from the Puritan period to the middle of the nineteenth century. (Nearly all of the noted writers of the period lived in Massachusetts.) The course includes such authors as Bradford, Franklin, Bryant, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson.” New course description: “A selective introduction of American literary works from the colonialist period through the beginning of the Civil War, with emphasis on their social/historical context and cultural significance. Literary works will be studied through careful reading, discussion, written analysis, and research.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Six credits ofcomposition or permission of the instructor.

Year Cycle

N

Semester Cycle

AN

Course Types

HU, CC-CT, CC-WC

Transfer Status

HUTR