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 2019
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39293	Lecture-Discussion	E	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	135 English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Section Info: This course will focus on the emergence of what we have come to think of as early African American print culture in the U.S. antebellum period. We begin with an overview of book history and print culture studies generally, focusing our attention on early African American print production and seriality as the semester moves forward. In examining print as both a cultural form and a marketable commodity, we will situate texts within a variety of distributional, technological, consumerist, and discursive networks. We will historicize and theorize modes of antebellum authorship, circulation, and readership as well as attend to particular genres and forms. This attention also means thinking critically and intersectionally about processes of racialization, gendering, class formation, and imperialism. Our specific case studies will be drawn from early African American print culture, from Phillis Wheatley through Pauline Hopkins. Indeed, we will use African American literature as our lens for understanding the long nineteenth century. In this way, we will not only think about what the study of print culture might bring to early African American literary studies, but also what early African American literary studies might bring to print culture studies. Authors for consideration include: Phillis Wheatley, Maria Stewart, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and others. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.