ENGL277

This course helps students trace the origins of some of American Literature's most well-known genres, including creation myths, captivity narratives, slave narratives, Gothic fiction, Romantic poetry, nature writing, and protest writing. Focusing on the development of American literature from the Colonial Period (1620) to the end of the Civil War (1865), the class illuminates the cultural and historical context of some of America's most revolutionary and lasting forms of literary expression.

Fall Only

All Years