Course Description

37-354 Creating An American Literature F(3-0)

Detailed study of literary developments reflecting changing American attitudes from Colonial times to the 1880's. Topics may include, for example, Puritan poetry, 18th C. prose, slave narratives, and women's fiction, and writers such as Emerson, Whitman, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Stowe, Melville, and Dickinson.

Prerequisites: 37-210 or 37-2111/2.

1996-97 Undergraduate Calendar

Last revised: August 28, 1996. Contact: ccrenna@registrar.uoguelph.ca.