Year II American Literature Survey
Semester I
- Colonial America – the beginnings (colonization of North America, myths vs. reality, European expansion, first Puritan settlers)
- The literature of Colonial America (Captain John Smith, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Jonathan Edwards; typical Puritan genres, the significance of sermons)
- Franklin and the Enlightenment (the Age of Reason, deism, new picture of man, Franklin as a politician, inventor, writer, humanist)
- 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)
- Poe and the American gothic (Poe’s major works, features of American gothic)
- Transcendentalism (“American Renaissance”, religious and philosophical background of transcendentalism, Emerson, Thoreau, Brook Farm)
- Hawthorne and Melville (the Party of the Past, Hawthorne and Melville vs. Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman)
- Melville’s Moby Dick (epic features, transcendentalist features, one of the defining works of American romanticism)
- Emily Dickinson (main features of her poetry, differences between Dickinson and Whitman)
- American Realism (characteristics, Mark Twain vs. Henry James – two versions of American realism)
- Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (American comic realism and a voice against slavery)
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