ENGL 343 - The Nineteenth-Century U.S. Novel: Feeling National

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Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 HU, CD, WR

New courses added 10.28.08

This course offers an intensive study of the U.S. novel in the nineteenth century. We will explore the influence of the 19th-century novel’s myriad forms—from Charles Brockden Brown’s experiments with the gothic to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s reinvention of the jeremiad—on the “American” in American literature. Reading contemporary literary criticism and theory, we will examine how the literary incitement to feel intense emotion shaped and constrained the development of a national literary tradition. American, Diversity, 1700-1900. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: T. Jaudon
Prerequisites & Notes
Two 200-level courses, including at least one Gateway course; or three 200-level courses.