ENGL 10550 Studies in American Literature

An intensive study of topics in American Literature. Specific subject matter and emphasis will change each trimester. Sample topics: American Romanticism, with such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman and Dickinson; The Small Town in American Literature, with works by Hawthorne, Twain, Anderson, Lewis, Gaines, Lee, King, Morrison and Faulkner; American Modernism and The Long Poem, examining the long works of Whitman, Eliot, Williams, H.D. Stevens, Seamus Heaney and Rita Dove. Students may repeat the course with a change in topic.

Credits

3