LIT-256 American Literature of the 19th Century

This course is a survey of representative American literary texts in their historical, social and aesthetic contexts. We will pay attention to issues of access to the literary market and the cultural work of literature, particularly in figuring the rise a distinctly American tradition, and many distinct traditions within it, such as those of Black and women authors. We will read works from such writers as Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Dickinson, Whitman, Jacobs, Jewett, Clemens, Chestnutt, and James.

Maximum Enrollment

Standard Course (40)

(Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Notes

(History or Genre) (SSIH)