ENG 207 - American Literature Survey I

Institution:

Bellarmine University

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Description:

This course surveys American literature from its beginnings in the Native American traditions and the writings of the explorers through the creation of the American myths in texts of the Puritans and the Early Republic, in Transcendentalism, and in the flowering of fiction in the American Renaissance. It ends with attention to the writings that come out of the debates over race, slavery, and abolition, and to the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Approaches combine close reading, literary and cultural history, and a variety of methodological lenses (such as gender, class, race, and form). Every fall.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bellarmine.edu

Phone Number:

(502) 272-8263

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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