An introduction to the major writers and trends of thought in American literature up to and including Dickinson. Authors studied will include Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson, Cooper and Melville. Trends of thought considered will include puritanism, gothicism, transcendentalism, romanticism and naturalism.
Prerequisite: C (or better) in two first-year Academic English courses, or instructor's written consent.