American Literature And Cultures To 1900

Instructor:
Andy Doolen
352
Credits:
3.0
001
Building:
Miller Hall
Room:
Rm.101
Semester:
Spring 2025
Start Date:
End Date:
Name:
American Literature And Cultures To 1900
Requisites:

Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.

Class Type:
DIS
10:00 am
10:50 am
Days:
MWF

This course focuses on selected literary movements and their relationships to American culture up through 1900. Authors studied may include Susanna Rowson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, and Henry James. Topics may include American imperialism, slavery and abolition, the rise of the historical novel, Sentimentalism, Romanticism, and the emergence of psychological realism. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.

This course focuses on selected literary movements and their relationships to American culture up through 1900. Authors studied may include Susanna Rowson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, and Henry James. Topics may include American imperialism, slavery and abolition, the rise of the historical novel, Sentimentalism, Romanticism, and the emergence of psychological realism. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.

ENG