Academic Calendar 2022/2023 - Adventurers, Outlaws, or Pioneers of the Frontier: Early American Literature

ENGL 2266  Adventurers, Outlaws, or Pioneers of the Frontier: Early American Literature

Prerequisites:

Three credits of 1000 level ENGL (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502) or any 18 credits completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502, ENGL 2001, ENGL 2011).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 2265

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Were the explorers who set out to settle the New World, America, adventurers, outlaws, or pioneers? How does the notion of the frontier shape early American Literature? From early travelogues and diaries to poetry and fiction, students examine early American historical and literary narratives from different socio-cultural perspectives.