Overview
Description
American fiction from its origins to 1900. Readings in such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
- analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
- articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
- evaluate the genre-sepcific features of American literature prior to 1865.
- analyze American literature prior to 1865 drawing from theories in the field.