English 272 - American Romanticism
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Hoang Phan
M W 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
84219
South College Room W101
hgphan@english.umass.edu
The cultural life of 19th-century America in selected poetry and prose by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Cooper, Whitman, Poe, Melville, and Lincoln. Emphasis on the symbolic and ethical idealism of selected ante-bellum poetry and prose, and on the themes of Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, Jacksonian democracy, and slavery.