ENGL 5003 - Studies in American Literature I

(3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 3 Credit Hours)

Topics rotate: Colonial and Early American Literature: An examination of representative literary works from exploration and discovery through the era of the new American republic. American Romanticism: An examination of representative American literary works from the nineteenth century through the Civil War. American Realism and Naturalism: An examination of the American literary arts based in an aesthetic of accurate, unromanticized observation/representation of life and nature that flourished in the post-Civil War era. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.