| CODE | ENG2279 | ||||||||
| TITLE | 19th Century American Prose to 1900 | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The purpose of this study-unit is to introduce students to the shaping concerns of non-fictional nineteenth-century American prose. This study-unit examines a varied range of non-fictional writings relevant to American history to 1900, relating to the social and political upheavals of the time and to the construction of an emerging American identity, with all its contradictions and diversities. The following texts are for detailed study: Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography; Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad; Walt Whitman’s Memoranda During the War; Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Further reading includes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘Nature,’ ‘The American Scholar,’ ‘Self-Reliance’. Reading List: A reading pack will be made available at the start of the unit. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stella Borg Barthet |
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