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College Catalog 2019-2020 
    
College Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL 2710 - American Literature: Colonial to 1865

Credit Hours: 3.00
Prerequisites: ENGL 1220  or ENGL 1190 

This course begins with the earliest American literature written by Native Americans and moves on to European expectations, settlements, and explorations of the “New World.” It also covers the literature of the American Revolution, the literary life of the new nation, and culminates in the voices of American Romanticism and anti-slavery reform. Authors to be covered may include Bradford, Winthrop, Edwards, Bradstreet, Franklin, Wheatley, Jefferson, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Douglass.

Contact Hours: 3

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