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Oct 16, 2024
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ENGL 30015 - Seminar in Literary and Culture Studies: the Early American NovelCourse Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0
(CMLT)
Research seminar on the history of the novel in the United States from the nation’s founding to the Civil War. The course will examine the American novel within the contexts of the emergence of the genre in English across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the social, economic, and geopolitical history of the United States. Authors may include Hannah Webster Foster, Charles Brockden Brown, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Wilson. Secondary readings will include foundational scholarly texts in the history and theory of the novel, as well as recent work in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Prerequisite(s): ENGL-20000 and two Literature courses [AH]
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