| Description |
Historical and critical study of authors, genres, and literary movements from early American writings through American Romanticism. Authors may include William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. |