Eng 561 Topics: American Literature 1800-1900

Study of nineteenth-century American literature in the context of the history, ideas, and culture of the period. Topics may include literary movements (such as Transcendentalism, sentimentalism, realism); individual authors; genres, modes, or forms; or writing’s relation to historical events (such as slavery and abolition, the Civil War, American imperialism, industrialization, the women’s rights movement). Course may be repeated for credit with different topics. Up to 8 credits of this course number can be applied to the English major.