LIT 205 - The American Renaissance

Institution:

Southern New Hampshire University

Subject:

Literature

Description:

This course examines the literature of the new republic (after 1789) through the Civil War, as American literature developed a home-grown Romanticism influenced by European intellectual and aesthetic movements, as well as a new humanitarian sensibility of its own. Readings include the first generation of American Romantics: Irving, Cooper and Bryant; authors from the "New England Renaissance: such as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and Longfellow; social and feminist reformers such as Fuller, Stowe, Whittier, Davis and Fern; the slave narratives of Jacobs and Douglass; and the latter- day transcendentalism of Walt Whitman. Offered every fall semester.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.snhu.edu

Phone Number:

(603) 668-2211

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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