Thu 12-14 B3110 (SAVOLAINEN) (starting 3.9.2009)

The course will discuss and reassess the idea of the efflorencence of American literary culture of the 19th century, expounded by F. O. Matthiessen in his classic American Renaissance (1941), and expand the idea along the guidelines set by Jane Tompkins in her Sensational Designs (1985). We will read texts by R. W. Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Emily Dickinson. In addition, we will watch a documentary on Frederick Douglass. The reading materials for the course will be provided in photocopies.

Enrolment is restricted to fourteen(ten students of English Philology & four of the NAM program).

Assessment: Group participation and a lecture diary.

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