English 231 - AMER LITERATURE BEFORE 1865
Fall
2015
01
4.00
Dean Flower
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
15057-F15
WRIGHT 002
dflower@smith.edu
A study of American writers as they respond to a newly formed nation, its unique landscape and problematic ambitions. Emphasis on the extraordinary burst of creativity that took place between 1820 and the Civil War. Works by Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson and others.