ENG 5000 Studies in American Renaissance

A study of nineteenth-century American writers of fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry, which may include the following: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allen Poe, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. The literary texts will be studied within the contexts of their historical/cultural context and will include literary criticism and literary theory. Issues explored related to the American Renaissance could include: an interest in individualism, nature and the natural world, the Civil War, the rights of women, and the anti-slavery movement. The course will focus on a particular topic, genre, or writer based on the instructor’s interests.
Credits: 3.0