Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

Eng 461 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.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Eng 300 and Wr 301. (Wr 301 may be taken concurrently.)
  • Up one level
  • 400