Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This lecture course will examine the work of American novelists as self-conscious renderings of the nation that could not find reasonable expression in genres like poetry and autobiography. The expansive nature of the novel lent itself early on to capture, represent, and reify the progressive discourses of history that turned New England Puritan theocracy into a secularized form of government, known as democracy.