Topics of lectures and seminars: 1. Oral literature of the native peoples of America 2. Puritan literature 3. Enlightenment, Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin (18th century) 4. Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne 5. Edgar Allan Poe 6. American transcendentalism (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, etc.) 7. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 8. Slavery and African-American literature 9. Realism (Mark Twain, Kate Chopin) 10. Naturalism (Stephen Crane, Frank Norris) 11. Jack London, Mark Twain 12. Kate Chopin - the role of women in American literature 13. Credit test
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