ENG 151 - Survey of American Writers to the Civil War

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course examines works representative of various movements within American literaryintellectual history. We begin with the poetry and personal narratives of the Puritans (Anne Bradstreet, John Winthrop, Jonathan Edwards). From there, we explore the satires and the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, as well as the slave narrative of Oladuah Equiano, to see how these eighteenth-century Enlightenment figures attempted to recreate the American identity, borrowing from but also importantly revising the Puritan point of view. We then address the romantic writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman to understand how these writers represented the spirit of Romanticism. Finally, reading works by Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson will help us see how American writers used Gothic motifs to represent their ambivalent or outright critical attitudes toward some of the earlier literary, philosophical, religious, social, and political traditions. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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