This course surveys American literary and cultural production up to 1900. Issues may include: settler and colonial culture, the foundations of African-American literature, Indigenous literatures, ante- and post-bellum literatures, dark romanticism, American Renaissance, spiritual narrative.
This course surveys American literary and cultural production up to 1900. Issues may include: settler and colonial culture, the foundations of African-American literature, Indigenous literatures, ante- and post-bellum literatures, dark romanticism, American Renaissance, spiritual narrative.