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 fall 2022
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
33958	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	English Building	Myers, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
33959	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	English Building	Myers, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
33973	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	English Building	Schmidt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
33976	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	English Building	Schmidt, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course.
33954	Lecture	AL1	12:00PM -12:50PM	MW	Henry Administration Bldg	Jones, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts, and Cultural Studies - Western course. Section Info: FA22 ENGL 255, Jamie L. Jones This course is a survey, which means that it aims to introduce you to a wide range of literary texts produced across a wide range of time and space. The course moves chronologically (for the most part) and is structured in five units that take on significant developments in American social, political, intellectual, and environmental history: “American Encounters,” “Revolutions in the Atlantic World,” “American Romance,” “Slavery and Feeling,” and “New Energies.” Together we will read significant, canonical, non-canonical, beautiful, and weird works of American literature, even as we work together to unsettle what it means to be “American,” and what it means to read and write “literature.” We will trace over the long span of this survey the ongoing encounters among Indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants; the lived reality of slavery; the founding fiction of liberty; and the way literature reflects and in turn shapes the encounters between humans and the nonhuman environment. Every now and then, we will dip into 21st-century culture and think about how artists and writers in our own historical moment are engaging with early American literature.