2024 Fall ENGLISH 130A 001 LEC 001

2024 Fall

ENGLISH 130A 001 - LEC 001

American Literature: Before 1800

Kathleen Donegan

Aug 28, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024
Tu, Th
12:30 pm - 01:59 pm
Social Sciences Building 60
Class #:31412
Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through English

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: -3
Enrolled: 68
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 65
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats

Hours & Workload

2 to 3 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 9 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 0 hours of the exchange of opinions or questions on course material per week.

Final Exam

FRI, DECEMBER 20TH
08:00 am - 11:00 am
Social Sciences Building 60

Course Catalog Description

Lectures on and discussion of the major writers of the early American period.

Class Description

This course will survey the literatures of early America, from the tracts that envisioned British colonization to the novels that measured the after-shocks of the American Revolution. Although our focus is on Anglophone texts, we will consider colonial America as a place of encounter – a place where diversity was a given, negotiation was a necessity, and transformation was inescapable. Lectures will explore the role of writing in contact and settlement; in captivity and slavery; in religious and social formations; in approaching the natural world; and in imagining a new republic. Throughout, we will pay special attention to how writing operated to forge new models of the self that could withstand and absorb the tumult of colonial life. Authors will include Bradford, Rowlandson, Franklin, Equiano, Jefferson, and the early American novelists Charles Brockden Brown and Hannah Webster Foster. This class satisfies the "pre-1800" requirement for the English major.

Class Notes

Book List

Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation; Williams, A Key into the Language of America; Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Franklin, The Autobiography; Equiano, The Interesting Narrative; Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia;
Crevecoeur, Letters from an Ameri.. show more
Book List

Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation; Williams, A Key into the Language of America; Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God; Franklin, The Autobiography; Equiano, The Interesting Narrative; Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia;
Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer; Brown, Wieland, or The Transformation;
Foster, The Coquette show less

Rules & Requirements

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills

Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Meets Historical Studies, L&S Breadth

Reserved Seats

Current Enrollment

No Reserved Seats

Textbooks & Materials

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