HU2321 American Romanticism

An introduction to the cultural history of American Romanticism as it developed in the decades before the Civil War. The course will probe sources in literature, art, religion, philosophy, and reform as we investigate movements including transcendentalism, abolitionism, women’s rights, utopianism, and temperance. Readings will include works from Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and others. Credits: 3

Prereq: (HU1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1012 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1211 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1212 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1431 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1432 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1435 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU1511 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or HU Core Trans Lecture Min Credits: 3.00) And EN1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 And (FY1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or FY1001 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00 Or FY1101 Lecture Min Credits: 2.00)