ENG 240 - Early American Literature: Pre-Columbus Through the Civil War

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Description:

Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration Co-req WTNG 102, ENG 100 or successful completion of ENG 100 and WTNG 102 This survey course begins with Native American literary expressions and concludes with the literature of the Civil War. The course covers exploration narratives of the 15th and 16th centuries, American colonial writing, the literature of the new American republic, and the literary efforts of the 19th century romantics. The course concludes with abolitionist writing and the literature of the Civil War. The reading list includes Christopher Columbus, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, and What Whitman.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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