2016-2017 Undergraduate General Catalog


ENGL 240 Introduction to American Literary History

An overview of the literatures written in the region we now know as the United States from the time of European colonization until the present. Course readings will represent literary periods and movements from the Colonial and Revolutionary periods, to contemporary Postmodernism. Lectures and discussion will consider both the development of American literary traditions and the connections between literature and social phenomena such as first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans, slavery, industrialization, social reform, and the women's movement.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 200

Core Requirements

Perspectives: The US Experience