ENGL 397

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Honors Seminar II

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Credit: 3 hours.

Periods in British, American, and Anglophone literature.

May be repeated. Prerequisite: A 3.33 grade-point average or consent of the English Department's Director of Undergraduate Studies. Restricted to English and Rhetoric majors.

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ENGL 397 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40421	Lecture-Discussion	C	10:00AM -11:50AM	W	113 English Building	Murison, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Section Title: Lit & Cult of Amer Civil War Section Info: Topic Section C: Literature and Culture of the American Civil War ?The real war will never get in the books,? Walt Whitman regretfully declared after the Civil War ended. While bemoaning the sentimental ?mush? so often dished out after a war, Whitman also asks a broader question about whether literature (or any cultural medium) can ever fully represent the realities of war. This class will test Whitman?s premise by returning to the literature produced during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Civil War literature challenges certain accepted stories we tell about national literature and the nation more largely. What happened to the romance and transcendentalism of the antebellum writers in the crucible of war? How did forms like lyric poetry and the novel change to accommodate responses to the first modern war? Can we even categorize this literature, especially the literature of the Confederacy, as ?American literature?? These questions and many more will shape our inquiries over the course of the semester. Authors likely will include Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Augusta Jane Evans, and Elizabeth Keckley.