ENG 160 - Early American Literature

Course Description: This course is a survey of literature from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, which reflects the diversity of the American experience through its writers. Readings may include such literary forms as letters, journals, essays, autobiographies, and selections from the Native American oral tradition as well as traditional genres. Writers may include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENG 101.
General Education Elective(s): Humanities; Literature
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