ENGL 0410C - Inventing America

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Brown University

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Even before there was a United States, American authors argued over just what distinguished "America" from other communities. For what, they wondered, did or should America stand? Examines the rhetorical battles waged in some key pre-Civil War American literary texts over the meaning and/or meanings of America. Authors studied may include Bradstreet, Franklin, Douglass, and Melville.

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(401) 863-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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