Dec 17, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin
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ENGL 142 - The American Renaissance, 1820-1860

Semester Hours: 3
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A study of a period in American literary history so rich, it as been called “the American Renaissance.” Works by such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman and Dickinson. The development of a distinctively American literature is studied in the context of the revolutionary changes and deep conflicts that characterized American life in this period.

Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
WSC 001  or WSC 002 .


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