Syllabus for English 351
First Semester
First Nine weeks:
Beginnings of American literature to
1800--Early Colonial literature
The Crucible
Romanticism and
Transcendentalism
Novel-April Morning
Second Nine weeks:
American Renaissance
Novel- The Scarlet
Letter
The dark side of Romanticism--Poe,
Melville, Hawthorne
Second Semester
Third
nine weeks:
Civil War , Reconstruction, and
early -twentieth century literature
Novel- The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Research paper
Focus on literature from the first half
of the twentieth century
Fourth Nine weeks:
Novel- The Great Gatsby
Contemporary
literature (1950-present)
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