ENGL 547

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Seminar Earlier American Lit

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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 spring 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39293	Lecture-Discussion	E	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	135 English Building	Murison, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: American Romanticism and Section Info: Topic: American Romanticism and the Post-Secular Turn This seminar explores the vibrant recent debate over secularism, secularization, and the “post-secular.” Long a structuring principle of literary study, the assumption that modernity is marked by an ineluctable move away from religion has been called into question both by geopolitical events and scholars of the humanities and social sciences. This course will introduce students to the major theorists and scholarly discussions currently ongoing about religion and secularism. We will read widely in this interdisciplinary and dynamic field, which has posed urgent questions about secularism in a global context after 9/11, the relation of religion to gender and sexuality, and whether or not we can call our era, as some are doing, “post-secular.” To focus our inquiry, we will concentrate on the period of American Romanticism—from 1820-1865. This period in American culture was marked both by the disestablishment of state churches and the Second Great Awakening; it provoked the creation of new religious communities and the often-violent responses to them; and it experienced the evangelizing of abolitionism that spurred the urgency of such figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown. Using key texts from the era—likely including those by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Walker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Lydia Maria Child—we will explore the contested terms of the field and the history from which our debates about the “secular” emerged. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.