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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2026
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ENGL 360 001 (CRN: 15805)
AMERICAN LIT BEFORE CIVIL WAR
Long Title: THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS: AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
Department: English and Creative Writing
Instructor: Williamson, Clinton
Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:45PM TR (24-AUG-2026 - 4-DEC-2026)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Distribution Group: Distribution Group I
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 25
Section Enrolled: 7
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 99)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 26-APR-2026 12:02PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Description: This course will survey American literatures spanning from the Age of Discovery to the Atlantic Revolutions and up through the Civil War (or, the Second American Revolution). Through readings of explorer testimonials, trial transcripts, journal entries, narratives of enslavement, utopian political treatises, dime novels, and major works of American fiction and poetry alongside field defining pieces of political economy and history from below, we will focus upon the coming-into-being of the American working class as a distinct cultural formation resistant to multiple forms of exploitation.