American Renaissance & American Romanticism
American Renaissance & American Romanticism
(undergrad & grad seminars in classic American literature, style, & culture)
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LITR 4232 American
Renaissance Fall 2008: T & Th, 10-11:20am, Bayou 1218. LITR 4232 American Renaissance Syllabus (revised post-Ike)
(syllabus includes presentation schedule & Required Texts for American Renaissance: Nina Baym, ed., Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. B, 7th ed. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826) |
Fall 2008: Thursdays 7-9:50pm in Bayou 1235. LITR 5931 American Romanticism Syllabus (revised post-Ike) (includes presentation schedule & lecture notes) Required texts for American
Romanticism:
Baym,
Nina, et al, eds.
Norton
Anthology of American Literature.
7th Shorter Ed. 2008.
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Instructor: Craig White Phone: 281 283 3380 Email: whitec@uhcl.edu
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Links / Handouts: Primary Texts Susannah Rowson, Charlotte Temple: A Tale of Truth Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving, Legend of Sleepy Hollow Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Goophered Grapevine"
Walt Whitman Poems (scroll down) Emily Dickinson Poems (scroll down)
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Links / Handouts: Critical Guides Concept of the American Renaissance Romanticism in history and style Twain & Lawrence on Leatherstocking Tales Twain, Cooper's Literary Offences Whitman Style Sheet w/ Lincoln & M. L. King Inter-racial Buddy Teams in Pop Culture & Literature
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Critical Terms
The Romance: narrative & history
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Poems by Emily Dickinson |
Poems by Walt Whitman |
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Thomas Cole, scene from Last of the Mohicans |
The "American Renaissance" describes literature and culture in the generation before the Civil War--perhaps the greatest concentration of literary genius in United States history. In this definitive era of American literature, authors as diverse and marvelous as . . . * Edgar Allan Poe * Nathaniel Hawthorne * Harriet Beecher Stowe * * Frederick Douglass * Ralph Waldo Emerson * Margaret Fuller * * Henry David Thoreau * Herman Melville * Abraham Lincoln * * Harriet Jacobs * Sojourner Truth * Walt Whitman * Emily Dickinson *. . . explore a variety of identities for Americans during the nation's early maturity, when the identity of the nation was still being formed.
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For further information, contact Craig White
at 281-283-3380 or
