ENG205

Surveys literature about people’s experiences of America from the pre-colonial period through the American Civil War. Selections include Native American oral traditions and texts; works by various Europeans reporting on colonial efforts in what became North, Central, and South America; literature of the European and American Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and debates about how to form “a more perfect Union”; major questions about class, race, sex, gender, and inequality; and works of literary nationalism, romanticism, and transcendentalism.