At the beginning of the 19th century many hoped, but few imagined, that by the end of the century America would have a flourishing and distinctive literary culture. Much less was it imaginable that numerous divers and important cultures would have been ge nerated. In this course we examine several of the most important literary cultures that coalesced around philosophical and political movements, around geographical locales and around categories of personal identification such as gender and race. It invest igates the way that individual writers shaped and were shaped by the different cultures they participated in. It examines the Transcendentalist, the reformist, the women's and the black literary cultures of the 19th century." -
Mary Lou Kete - mkete@moose.uvm.edu
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