ENGL 255

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Early American Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

This large-scale survey course offers students background in a wide range of genres, authors, and texts, focusing on "early American literature," which ranges from pre-Columbian indigenous narratives to nineteenth century novels, poems, and plays. The material studied ranges across multiple centuries and continents, and includes a wide variety of racial, ethnic, and gendered perspectives. Writers may include Christopher Columbus, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.

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 spring 2020
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32071	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	English Building	Hersh, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32072	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	English Building	Hersh, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32070	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	English Building	Schmidt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
43188	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	English Building	Schmidt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
32075	Lecture	AL1	12:00PM -12:50PM	MW	English Building	Loughran, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: Survey of Early American Literature and Culture: This is a course that is meant to introduce you to early American literature and invite you to theorize the practice of “literary history” and the problems we face in “surveying” large chunks of it at a time, from the disjointed position of the present. To achieve these goals, we will explore examples of American literature from some of its earliest iterations up until the crackup called the Civil War. But we will also sometimes consider the echoes of this early period in contemporary literature today, punctuating our readings from this earlier period with contemporary texts by living American writers who are now trying, like us, to make sense of what happened once upon a time, back “then.” Along the way, we will consider a wide variety of materials—from paintings, engravings, and films, to songs, novels, poems, letters, and essays. Our goal is think widely and flexibly about the three words that make up the title of the course: What is a “survey”? What is an “American”? And what is “literature”?