AFRICANA STUDIES 277c - Topics in Nineteenth-Century American Literature:Empire of Feeling

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Bowdoin College

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Every other year. Spring 2008. PETER COVIELLO. A study of the relations between sentiment and belonging across the American nineteenth century. Considers both how a language of impassioned feeling promised to consolidate a nation often bitterly divided, and some of the problems with that promise. Centers on a reading of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other authors may include Jefferson,Wheatley, Melville, Hawthorne, Wilson, Harper, and Du Bois. (Same as English 277.) Prerequisite: One first-year seminar or 100-level course in the English Department. Note: This course fulfills the literature of the Americas requirement for English majors.

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3.00

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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