We'll read and discuss a wide assortment of treatises, sermons, essays, stories and poems written by American authors from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Students will be expected to attend class regularly and write a series of in-class papers in response to study questions handed out in advance.

Texts: Perkins & Perkins, SELECTIONS FROM AMERICAN LITERATURE; Nathaniel Hawthorne, THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES; John Steinbeck, EAST OF EDEN