American Literature 1800-1865

Module 1: American Romanticism and Pseudo-Histories
Module 2: Mordecai M. Noah and American Theater
Module 3: James Fenimore Cooper and the American Novel
Module 4: Catharine Sedgwick and Romantic Community
Module 5: Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Transcendental Prophet
Module 6: Margaret Fuller and Transcendant Democracy
Module 7: Henry David Thoreau and the Transcendent Self
Module 8: Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendent Community
Module 9: Poe, Poetry, and the American Short Story
Module 10: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Romantic Hope
Module 11: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Fanny Fern, and the Romantic American Community
Module 12: Herman Melville and the Romantic American Isolato
Module 13: Walt Whitman, Romantic Poet-Prophet of American Democracy
Module 14: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Birth of American Realism
Module 15: Harriet Jacobs and Realist Autobiography