WGST 323C - American Literature II

Institution:

Gonzaga University

Subject:

WOMEN'S AND GENDER STUDIES

Description:

The course analyzes the development of American literature from the romanticism of the 1830s to the blooming of the American Renaissance of the 1850s and 1860s. Writers such as Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson will be read alongside less canonical writers such as Fuller, Davis, Douglass, Jacobs, and Stowe. This course seeks to broaden an understanding of American literature by reading works from a variety of genres (short stories, poems, essays, autobiographies, novels) and from writers of different races, classes, and geographical backgrounds.

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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