ENGL 161 American Literature to the Civil War

Studies American literature from its beginnings to the Civil War; from its pre-literature - recording the encounters among the Native Americans, English, Spanish, French, and Africans - to the first emergence of America's literature of diversity, exemplified by such writers as Douglass, Jacobs, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Dickinson, and Melville.