ENG 3020
Survey American Literature I · 3 credits · Fall 2026
Requirements
Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/CMP/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
About this course
This course explores the development of American literature from its beginnings through the Civil War. Texts including letters, histories, autobiographies, political documents, poems, plays, and novels, illuminate the rich complexity of this period in American literary history and culture. These works reveal the often interconnected and overlapping stories of discovery and exploration; private piety and public life; the development of national identity; race; gender; slavery and the movementtowards its abolition.
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