Emphasis on linguistic diversity, cultural and historical influences on language and evolution of genres. Student option grading. Authors may include Milton, Marvell, Dryden, Swift, Montagu, Wollstonecraft and others. The course emphasizes the close connection between the literature and politics, especially the decline of the monarchy, rise of Parliament and the religious reform of Anglo-Catholicism. Student option grading.
Emphasis is on literary movements and the influence of social developments on literature.
Student option grading. May include Meetings of New and Old World People, Puritanism, Enlightenment, Transcendentalism and Romanticism studied through diaries, letters, essays, slave narratives and oratory, as well as fiction and poetry. Authors may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Douglass, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and others. Student option grading. Trends and periods may include Regionalism, Naturalism and emerging Ethnic and Feminist Voices.