Year II American Literature Survey

Semester I

 

 

  1. Colonial America – the beginnings (colonization of North America, myths vs. reality, European expansion, first Puritan settlers)
  2. The literature of Colonial America (Captain John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards; typical Puritan genres, the significance of sermons)
  3. Franklin and the Enlightenment (the Age of Reason, deism, new picture of man, Franklin as a politician, inventor, writer, humanist)
  4. The beginnings of American national literature (William Cullen Bryant, Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving and The Knickerbockers, James Fenimore Cooper and The Leatherstocking Tales, the concept of the Frontier)
  5. Poe and the American gothic (Poe’s major works, features of American gothic)
  6. Transcendentalism (“American Renaissance”, religious and philosophical background of transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, Brook Farm)
  7. Hawthorne and Melville (the Party of the Past, Hawthorne and Melville vs. Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman)
  8. Melville’s Moby Dick (epic features, transcendentalist features, one of the defining    works of American romanticism)
  9. Emily Dickinson (main features of her poetry, differences between Dickinson and Whitman)
  10. American Realism (characteristics, Mark Twain vs. Henry James – two versions of American realism)
  11. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (American comic realism and a voice against slavery)

 

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