ENGL 3246

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours Using letters, accounts, speeches, journal entries, poems, and other narratives, the course surveys early American literature from 1492 to 1776, focusing on such themes as "discovery" and contact; emerging federalism; indigenous communities; racism and the North-South divide; gender; work; individuality and self-reliance; crime and violence; landscape, environment, religious affiliation, and identity.