ENGL 261 Thematic Studies: American Transcendentalism & Dark Romanticism

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition area of the core with a grade of C- or above. A study of the major authors and themes of the American Transcendental and Anti-Transcendental or Dark Romantic movements. Texts will include essays by Emerson and Thoreau, novels and short stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and poems by Whitman and Dickinson. (H2)