This course begins with the earliest indigenous American literature and moves on to European conceptions of the "New World." It also covers the literature of the American Revolution, the literary life of the new nation, the voices of American Romanticism and reform, and antebellum writers. Authors to be covered may include Bradford, Winthrop, Edwards, Bradstreet, Franklin, Wheatley, Jefferson, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Douglass. (3 billable contact hrs)