This course is a survey of American literature and literary history, from the early colonial period to the eve of the Civil War. Our goal will be to acquire a grasp of the canon of American literature as it is typically conceived and the various logics behind its construction. Topics to be consider…

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, four

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, five

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, two

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, moby dick, three

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, nathaniel hawthorne

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, uncle tom's cabin, two, harriet beecher stowe

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, uncle tom's cabin, one, harriet beecher stowe

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, five, walt whitman

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, three, henry david thoreau

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendtalism, four, ralph waldo emerson, walt whitman

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendentalism, one, john locke, ralph waldo emerson

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american transcendentalism, two, ralph waldo emerson, henry david thoreau

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, three, edgar allen poe, frederick douglass

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, two, thomas gray, joel barlow, william cullen bryant, edgar allen poe

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american enlightenment, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american gothic, one, charles brockden brown, edgar huntly

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, jonathan edwards, transition to enlightenment

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american neoclassicism, francis scott key, phillis wheatley, phillip freneau

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, three, anne bradstreet, michael wigglesworth, edward taylor

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, two, john winthrop, mary rowlandson

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, american puritanism, one, herman melville, hawthorne

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, literature of settlement

Cyrus Patell, american literature, from the beginnings to the civil war, New York University, NYU, OpenEd, Open Ed, Open, Education, introduction