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May 14, 2024
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ENG 336, 337 - Transcendentalism and Abolition: American Literature in the Crucible of Freedom and Slavery1 course unit
A survey of American literature in the run-up to the Civil War, reading Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Douglass, Stowe, and Whitman among others, with some consideration of legal and state documents. What is the meaning of liberty in the land of slavery? What ─ and who ─ is American? How can we live? How can we be free?
Meets departmental Genealogies approach.
Meets general academic requirement W when offered as 337.
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