Introduction To American Literature

AY2021/2022 Semester 1

This course introduces you to canonical texts in American literature from the colonial era to the present. Periods may include: the colonial and revolutionary eras; the American Renaissance; Romanticism and realism; modernism and postmodernism. You will learn to read American literature in relation to its social and historical context and develop knowledge and understanding in the beliefs and self-conceptions that underpin the United States of America. ELAH students - can be taken as Major Prescribed Electives BUT CANNOT be taken to fulfil subject categories