| Course ID: | ENGL 2330. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | American Literature from the Beginnings to 1914 |
Course
Description: | Significant work by writers in America from the pre-Columbian era to World War I. Writers may include Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Charles Chesnutt, Frances Harper, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. |
| Oasis Title: | American Literature to 1914 |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2370H |
| Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | At the end of the course, students, having read a
substantial body of literature, will be able to discuss the assigned
works (orally and in writing) with a considerable degree of critical
sophistication, to read them with pleasure, to read and enjoy other
works from the period, and to converse with fellow students about texts
and issues related to the subject matter of the course. |
| Topical Outline: | The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and semester to semester. The topics will consist of selected works by various authors to be read outside of class and discussed in class and to be examined individually and comparatively in the context of the times and the circumstances of their composition. Periodically during the semester, students will perform a number of graded tasks, including some combination of tests and out-of-class papers. A possible series of topics and assignments might resemble this:
Selections from The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Vols. A-C
Bradford, Of Plymouth Planation
Eleazar, Elegy for Thomas Thacker
Bradstreet, selected poems
Franklin, Autobiography
Crevecoeur, Notes from an American Farmer
Equiano, Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Schoolcraft, selected poems and stories
Apes, Son of the Forest and Other Writings
Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Emerson, Nature
Thoreau, Walden
Whitman, selected poems
Hawthorne, stories
Melville, Billy Budd
Harper, Iola Leroy
Twain, Huck Finn
James, Daisy Miller
Wharton, Ethan Frome |
| Honor Code Reference: | Students in this course are expected to be familiar
with and adhere to the University of Georgia policy on academic honesty,
according to which all violations of academic honesty will be handled.
Students may participate in graded group projects at the instructor's
discretion. |