English 307-001
Survey of American Literature to 1865
Instr: Sappenfield, James
Office: CRT 392; 229-3504
e-mail: jsap@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: TR; 2:00-3:15pm; CRT 124
Course Description
Studies in American prose and poetry from the colonial period to the Civil War. Readings include the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative, Franklin's autobiography, and Hannah Webster Foster's early novel, representing the colonial and Federal periods. Nineteenth-century writers include Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville, historian Francis Parkman, Transcendentalists Thoreau and Fuller, and Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs—writers of famous slave narratives.
A six to ten-page term project is required along with brief reaction papers for most of the readings. There will be a final examination.
