English 223-001
American Writers: Colonial Times through the Nineteenth Century
Instr: Heagy, Suzanne
Office: CRT 577; 229-4567
e-mail: hsheagy@uwm.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Course Information: T&R; 3:30-4:45pm; MER 342
Course Description
This course will focus on the development of an "American" identity generated by specific anxieties and concerns from the colonial through the post-Civil War eras. How did an "American" literature evolve? How do the discourses of progress, expansion, and extinction inform American texts? How were seventeenth century Puritian writings marked as "American"? Are they more or less so than slave narratives, women's fiction, or native texts, whether oral or written? We will explore representations of the "other" in terms of gender, race, theology, ethnicity, and economics in a body of texts ranging from 1624 to 1891.
