ENGL 427

19th-Century American Prose and Poetry

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

A study of the 19th-century prose and poetry which led to the full maturity of a distinctive social, political and intellectual literature, with particular emphasis on American transcendentalism. Authors may include Emerson, Fuller, Poe, Thoreau, Douglass, Jacobs, Whitman, Dickinson, William James and Du Bois.

Undergraduate course in English offered by the Department of English in the Faculty of Humanities.