Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

A study in the literatures and cultures of the nineteenth-century United States. Topics may include individualism, ecology, aesthetics, gender, imperialism, regionalism, frontier and territorial expansion, scientific advancement, slavery, and the Civil War, and literary genres and movements might include Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, Transcendentalism, the novel, slave writings, short stories, and poetry.