UT Dallas 2018 Graduate Catalog

HUSL6346 - American Renaissance

HUSL 6346 American Renaissance (3 semester credit hours) Examines the authors whose work first defined 19th century American literary studies: Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau. Considers the challenges to that initial canon as well as the writers that the canon excluded (Stowe, Douglass, Jacobs, and others). (3-0) T