ENGL 255

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Survey of American Lit I

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Credit: 3 hours.

American literature and its cultural backgrounds to 1870. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 255 class schedule data for fall 2015
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33958	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	125 English Building	Sunia, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33959	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	125 English Building	Sunia, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33973	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	125 English Building	Kaplan, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33976	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	123 English Building	Plasencia, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33964	Discussion/ Recitation	AD5	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	125 English Building	Plasencia, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33962	Discussion/ Recitation	AD6	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	123 English Building	Kaplan, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).
33954	Lecture	AL1	11:00AM -11:50AM	MW	1000 Lincoln Hall	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: ENGL 255 is restricted to English majors. This course will survey American literature from early exploration narratives to the close of the Civil War. It will also introduce you to key concepts in American literary studies, including citizenship, nationalism, sensibility, enslavement, respectability, religion, and gender, class, and racial formations. We will concern ourselves with constructing a literary history of early America using a variety of texts: constitutions, sermons, captivity and slave narratives, essays, autobiographies, poems, serial fiction, and novels. We?ll travel some well-worn paths?Irving?s fantasies, Emerson?s transcendental musings, and Douglass?s fiery prose?but we will also take a few paths less traveled through periodicals, almanacs, and broadsides. At each turn, our challenge will be to read both the ?American-ness? and the ?literariness? of American literature as speculative, a ?history before the fact,? as Myra Jehlen puts it, requiring constant maintenance and revision on the part of would-be Americans and constant attention to the contingencies of historical, political, and cultural contexts on our end. Is the ?American? in early American literature a set of political and social circumstances; the writer?s identity (self-identified or otherwise); a set of tropes, generic conventions or a style; an attitude; our own need for tidy origin narratives; none of the above; all of the above? We won?t answer these questions in one semester aside from a provisional, ?It depends,? but we will develop an archive, set of critical paradigms and practices, and map for joining the ongoing conversation in American literary studies. Restriction(s): Restricted to English major(s) or minor(s).