Apr 25, 2024  
2022-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2024 Undergraduate Catalog
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AMS 355 - American Literature to 1865


1 semester, 3 credits-

Concentrates on the period of the American Renaissance (1836-1860) with some attention to earlier writings. Authors may include Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Cooper, Douglass, Jacobs, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman. The central topics concern the variety of responses to the question of American democratic opportunity, the frontier, and slavery. Same as ENG 355.


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