ENGL 326 - From Revolution to Romanticism:American Literature Through 1860

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University of Richmond

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Selected American works from the Early National period through the Civil War, with attention to the political and cultural contexts of these works. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 or American Studies 201 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This course begins with a consideration of the American Enlightenment-an intellectual and cultural shift that coincides with the American Revolution and that marks the decline of Anglo-Puritanism and the emergence of secular rationalism. Emphasis is placed on how notions of Enlightenment help to inform American thought during the Revolutionary period and discussions surround some of the following issues: reason (vs. emotion), autonomy, objectivity, self-governance, "the People," consent, equality, liberty, revolution, public and private sphere, among others. The course then turns to the nineteenth century in order for students to consider how nineteenth-century writers inherit and rethink these concerns. Students explore how nineteenth-century narrative sustains and extends the national culture that was first being imagined during the Revolutionary period, paying particular attention to Romanticism as a literary (and philosophical) mode. The course concludes on the eve of America's second and most substantial crisis: the Civil Wa

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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