ENGL 10550 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. May be taken multiple times with change in topic.

Credits

3