LTEN 154The American Renaissance
A study of some of the chief works, and the linguistic, philosophical, and historical attitudes informing them, produced by such authors as Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and Whitman during the period 1836–1865, when the role of American writing in the national culture becomes an overriding concern. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.
Prerequisites
None listed in the catalog.