Average rating
3.9
15 temporary mock ratings
Difficulty
2.6
course-linked average
Courses
2
in seeded sections
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Marxism and Literary Theory; Race and Empire; Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies; Southern and Rural Studies; Film Studies; Political Economy and Heterodox Economics; Utopianism; The Black Radical Tradition; The Frankfurt School
ENGL 360
This course will survey American literatures spanning from the Age of Discovery to the Atlantic Revolutions and up through the Civil War (or, the Second American Revolution). Through readings of explorer testimonials, trial transcripts, journal entries, narratives of enslavement, utopian political treatises, dime novels, and major works of American fiction and poetry alongside field defining pieces of political economy and history from below, we will focus upon the coming-into-being of the American working class as a distinct cultural formation resistant to multiple forms of exploitation.
ENGL 387
A variable topics course that may focus on one or more theorist, on a genre or theme, or on debates within the field of cultural studies. Recent topics have included mass culture and film; Marx; Science in Fiction and Film; contemporary ethnic studies; and more. Not limited in period, scope, or geography. Repeatable for Credit.
