AHS (0611) 232 - American Culture And Literature:18 And 19 Centuries

Credits: 4

A focused analysis of the four great trends - Religion, Reason, Romanticism, and Realism - that shaped the first 300 years of American life, literature, and culture. Authors to be studied will include Puritan writers such as Bradstreet, Sewall, and Mather; colonials such as Franklin, Paine, and Jefferson; Romanticists and Transcendentalists such as Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman; and late-19th-century realists such as Twain, Howells, and Crane.