EL 3600 - US Literature I

Institution:

SUNY College at Old Westbury

Subject:

English

Description:

Poetry, fiction, essay, and memoir from the colonial period to the U.S. Civil War. Examines significant works represen- tative of Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the "American Renaissance," Transcendentalism, the voices of Native Americans and women, and the literature of Abo- litionism as examples of a developing literary nationalism and as expressions of a multicultural society's developments and struggles. Authors may include William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheat- ley, James Fenimore Cooper, Richard Allen, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frances E.W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, John G. Whittier, Walt Whitman, William Wells Brown, and others. Offered every year. Prerequisite: EMS

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.oldwestbury.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 876-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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