ENGL 103A: |
American Literature from 1789 to 1900 |
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| Spring 2007 |
| Instructor: Stephanie LeMenager |
| Meets on: MWF 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM GIRV 1004 |
| Prerequisites: Writing 2, 50, or 109; English 10; or upper-division standing |
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| Satisfies a GE area G and a Writing requirement |
| http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/courses/acc_overview.asp?CourseID=298 |
| Not open for credit to students who have completed 136B. |
| The nineteenth-century is generally regarded as the century of the United States’ emergence as a cultural, as well as political, world power. In this survey of nineteenth-century U.S. literature, we will consider how the idea of “America” was created and contested by various nineteenth-century authors. Nineteenth-century U.S. literature offers us a series of foundational stories out of which our contemporary idea of this nation has formed. This survey offers a tour of the most significant literary genres and styles of the nineteenth-century United States,including the slave narrative, the romance, realism, and early modernism. The course also considers how each of these literary forms or styles contributes to our understanding of the meaning of the U.S., at home and in the world. Course authors include Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain and Henry James.
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