ENG-312 Emerson to Dickinson

GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
Study of American literature from Emerson through Dickinson, focusing on such writers as Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Whitman. Topics include the possibility of living well, relationships to creation, to God, to evil, and to an expanding, divided federation compromised by a constitution that allows slavery and disenfranchises women. 4 credits.