American Romanticism

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.

American Identities

Explores the ways literature participates in the definition of national identity. Readings focus on ways American issues of creed, class, status, gender, self and community, possession and dispossession, nationhood and ethnicity, and language have contributed to American identities. (Gen.Ed. AL)

American Identities

Explores the ways literature participates in the definition of national identity. Readings focus on ways American issues of creed, class, status, gender, self and community, possession and dispossession, nationhood and ethnicity, and language have contributed to American identities. (Gen.Ed. AL)

American Identities

Explores the ways literature participates in the definition of national identity. Readings focus on ways American issues of creed, class, status, gender, self and community, possession and dispossession, nationhood and ethnicity, and language have contributed to American identities. (Gen.Ed. AL)

American Identities

Explores the ways literature participates in the definition of national identity. Readings focus on ways American issues of creed, class, status, gender, self and community, possession and dispossession, nationhood and ethnicity, and language have contributed to American identities. (Gen.Ed. AL)
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