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An intensive as well as extensive survey of significant cultural and literary forces in American literature from pre-colonial times to 1860.
Instructor: Dr. Earle Labor

Text:
Perkins, George and Barbara Perkins, ed. The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1.

Selected Authors:
Bradford, William.
Bradstreet, Anne.
Bryant, William Cullen.
Cooper, James Fenimore.
Douglass, Frederick.
Edwards, Jonathan.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Equiano, Olaudah.
Franklin, Ben.
Freneau, Philip.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Irving, Washington.
 Jacobs, Harriet.
Jefferson, Thomas.
Paine, Thomas.
Poe, Edgar Allan.
Mather, Cotton.
Melville, Herman.
Sewall, Samuel.
Taylor, Edward.
Thoreau, Henry David.
Wheatley, Phillis.
Whitman, Walt.
Winthrop, John.