WGST 321C - American Literature I

Institution:

Gonzaga University

Subject:

WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

Description:

This course examines a variety of genres in American Literature through the 1840s: essays, novels, short stories, sermons, poems, womens captivity narratives, and autobiographies. The course will move from Spanish and Native American narratives of contact to the self-questioning of Puritan writers and the mythologizing tendencies of Crevecoeur, Franklin, Cooper, and later writers. in exploring Native American and African American texts as well as works by Emerson and Hawthorne, students will consider the ways in which gender and race help to shape an American literary canon.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.gonzaga.edu

Phone Number:

(509) 328-4220

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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