ENGL 547

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Seminar Earlier American Lit

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: One college course devoted entirely to an aspect of American studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 547 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39492	Lecture-Discussion	T	3:00PM -5:50PM	R	English Building	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Section Title: Early Amer Material Culture Section Info: Topic Section T: Early American Material Culture, 1750-1900 This will be a methods course in material culture in which students will be asked to assemble and theorize a diverse archive from which they might ultimately narrate some larger story about American culture—from its printed archive of novels, newspapers, pamphlets, maps, and magazines to less obviously literary sites like houses, museums, plantations, and Indian reservations. For the first two-thirds of the course, we will anchor these archival investigations in cultural theory and on close readings of primary texts. In the last third of the course, seminar participants will work together in groups to assemble and narrate for the seminar a distinctive archival bibliography that will help form the basis of each student's longer seminar paper. Our last few weeks will be entirely devoted to exchanging and discussing student writing. The course will thus serve both as a practical site for learning basic approaches to archival research and as a place to theorize the methodological problems that arise when working with and in cultural history. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.