ENGL 02322 - Literature of the American Renaissance

Institution:

Rowan University

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Description:

This course focuses on the literature of the American Renaissance (1830-1860). This study of works by writers like Cooper, Bryant, Irving, Poe, Emerson, Douglass, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Longfellow, Whitman, Stowe, Jacobs, and Dickinson will cover the three major characteristics of the period: the movement from classicism to romanticism in the early writers; the development of literary nationalism, and an increasing interest in exploring what it means to be an American; and, finally, the beginnings of literary realism with the approach of the Civil War. This course may not be offered annually.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rowan.edu

Phone Number:

(856) 256-4000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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