AMER 235 - Survey of U. S. Literature Beginnings to 1865

Institution:

Saint Norbert College

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Description:

This course introduces students to the major writers, literary movements and cultural and historical contexts in the United States from its origins to the end of the Civil War. Students examine American Indian creation stories, trickster tales, encounter narratives, Puritan prose and poetry, the literature of the Enlightenment and Revolutionary War, slave narratives and the rise of romanticism. Writers include Cabeza de Vaca, Bradford, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Edwards, Wheatley, Rowson, Irving, Equiano, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Harding Davis and Dickinson. Fall semester.

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1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.snc.edu

Phone Number:

(920) 337-3181

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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