English 347 - American Literature to 1865 J.C.Masteller

Institution:

Whitman College

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Description:

A study of major authors in the American literary tradition from the Colonial period to the Civil War, with emphasis on the writers of the American Renaissance. Topics may include the development of a sense of "American" literature, the growing emphasis on the individual, the importance of nature, the individual's relation to society, ideas of freedom versus slavery, and changing notions of rights. Authors covered may include John Winthrop, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman

Credits:

3.00 - 4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.whitman.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 527-5111

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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