English 777-001
American Literature to 1830
Instr: Hamilton, Kristie
Office: CRT 478; 229-5959
e-mail: kgh2@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: T; 3:30-6:10pm; SAB G25
Course Description
In this course, we will survey American literature from the colonial period, the eighteenth century, and the early national period ending with novels written in the mid-1820s when the U.S. was still new enough and yet old enough to need to write a national history/mythology for itself. At the same time, you will be introduced to American literary scholarship that first established and then regularly re-defined the field from the first half of the twentieth century to the present.
Required Texts: (Books will be Available at Peoples' Books, 2122 E. Locust Street--at Maryland Avenue and Locust--, 962-0575; critical essays will be made available at Clark Graphics after the first class meeting):
- Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume A: Colonial Period to 1800. Fifth Edition. Paul Lauter, General Editor.
- Foster, Hannah Webster. The Coquette. Oxford U Press.
- Brown, Charles Brockden. Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Penguin Classics.
- Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans. Penguin Classics.
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie; or Early Times in the Massachusetts. Rutgers UP.
