ENG 3320 - American Literature:Puritanism-1865

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Aurora University

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Description:

4 semester hours American Literature presents a study of Americans in their developing and changing environment from the Puritanism, to the Colonial and the Romantic periods, to the end of the Civil War. We will cover a broad range of texts: political essays, songs, captivity narratives, memoirs, myths and tales, poetry, and the emerging American novel. Writers studied may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Mather, Franklin, Jefferson, Wheatly, Douglass, Truth, Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman. (Annually) Prerequisite: ENG1020. Meets General Education "Aesthetic and Philosophical Expression" Group Brequirement.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.aurora.edu

Phone Number:

(630) 892-6431

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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