ENGL
32. Introduction to American
Literature 1
3 sem. hrs.
An introductory survey of American literary traditions from the
beginnings to the Civil War. Approaches vary with instructor;
materials studied are likely to include early Native American
oral traditions and works by authors such as Adams,
Bradstreet, Child, Dickinson, Douglass, Emerson, Franklin, Hawthorne,
Jacobs, Melville, Murray, Poe, Rowlandson, Stowe, Thoreau, Wheatley,
and
Whitman. Whitman.
Typically
offered fall term. Prereq: ENGL 1 or equiv. and ENGL 2 or equiv.